How valuable is your bureaucracy?
For decades now the issue monetization of perks has been on the table. No action has been taken because the powerful secretaries...
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What Shanghai Electric is inheriting from Abraaj
The problem with buying a monopoly is that you never really think about the competition until it is too late. Shanghai Electric’s...
There is an IMF standby agreement, but what next?
Solving our balance of payments challenge
Reconfiguring the economy
Stuck in a low-growth loop
Financial inclusivity: Where does Pakistan stand?
Pakistan is a lower middle-income economy, located in the heart of South Asia, with a GDP estimated at $284 Billion (2016), and...
Dollar Doom Loop and Pakistan
The era of cheap money is over. The global financial crisis of 2008 led to an explosive growth in money supply with...
Blitzscaling
An ill-defined and oft-abused word in the startup ecosystem is blitzscaling. Earlier this year,
Airlift shuttered its doors, leading to the inevitable questions...
Punjab’s changing urban reality requires empowered local governments
Changing demographics mean the Punjab is transforming into a new iteration of the province. Its governance must be left to the hands of local representatives
An honest look at import policy is needed
Our own experience teaches us that import restrictions are only a very temporary way of curtailing imports. In the face if a...
How Pakistan can avoid the “Dutch Disease”
Should the country soon find itself awash in hydrocarbon wealth, how it chooses to manage that surplus will be critical
Why bother with ‘targets’?
Of all the bad habits the government of Pakistan has, perhaps one of the worst is the one picked up by the...
The fortune at the bottom of the digital pyramid
It is time to recognise that access to the internet being equitable is good for business
The lopsided market structure of the automobile industry
Cars are supposed to go down in value. Here they are a fixed asset.
Daronomics and its aftershocks
A familiar mess that the PTI has inherited