Can RAAST usher in the promised fintech revolution?

On Thursday, February 3, the State Bank of Pakistan instructed banks to provide free person-to-person (P2P) payments services under Raast, the country’s...

Break the monopolies!

Can shortsighted governments deliver the one-step economic reform agenda Pakistan needs for the long term: Eradicate monopolies and cartels, in both, the public and private sector?

Plotistan: The mystery of low savings rate

Economic agents are not rational, and neither are government policies often driving the interplay of savings and investments

Exports, exports, and more exports – attracting the right kind of FDI

There needs to be more discussed about why Pakistan is not attracting export oriented FDI

The real problem isn’t Cholistan —It’s Pakistan’s shrinking water supply

The Cholistan Canal controversy is not simply about Punjab versus Sindh. It is a symptom of Pakistan’s chronic failure to expand its water infrastructure to meet growing demand

COD Rules: How to reduce rejection at the doorstep

A series of rules can help e-commerce companies ensure that they reduce their losses

EV adoption: moving customers along the funnel

What is stopping Pakistanis from buying more electric vehicles?

Name’s matter, even in the stock market

"Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - Romeo & Juliet  Shakespeare...

Fiscal discipline: A comparison between PML-N and PPP regimes

Over a passage of time, it becomes important that we reflect into the economic performances of the PML-N and PPP regimes respectively...

The state of housing finance in Pakistan

Housing is a fundamental need whose provision can ensure a minimum standard of welfare for a family unit. Indeed, it has been...

The case against a six-day work week

After a week-long constitutional crisis, a new government is finally in place.  One of the first decisions taken was a rushed one,...

Tough reforms ahead

At long last, the Shehbaz Sharif government has decided to bite the bullet. Finance minister Miftah Ismail has finally announced a Rs....

What made the startups click in Pakistan?

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. – Jack Welch

10 facts about milk that you should know

A huge public debate about milk quality has been raging in recent months. A lot of confusion and doubts spread through the...

On what women wear to work, and why it should be simpler

Traversing what is and what is not appropriate for work is very different for women than it is for men