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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?
Here’s how we fix Pakistan’s SOE problem
Privatization or legislation, we must address the root of the problem
Competition is overrated
Not the silver bullet many argue it is
Tackling the Multi-Headed Energy Hydra
Fixing one problem causes three more
Why institutional reform matters
One of the biggest critiques of neoclassical economics – usually levied by people who do not understand it – is that it...
Pakistan needs to fix its electricity network. Here’s one way
Technology must be on the forefront of how we choose to deal with this problem
Provincial subjects and their discontents
For all of the good it has done, the 18th amendment has not been properly utilized and implemented by the provinces, particularly in the case of taxation and labour welfare
Rebuild Karachi
The city’s decline may have much to do with a lack of political ownership, but the situation cannot be allowed to continue. The way out is for the business community to step up with a common agenda
All for one, one for all
We cannot bring ourselves to recount the brutal and vicious manner in which the coal miners in Balochistan from the Hazara community...
The lucrative business of being white in Pakistan
If you’re white and your career isn’t going anywhere, Pakistan is your second lease on life
Imports: necessary, and not evil
In a country whose government is as obsessed with the exchange rate, the current account deficit, and thus every single component that...
2020 – An obituary
As we say goodbye to the year, we will remember it mainly for the massive disruption it brought.Â
Shooting ourselves in the foot
Let us start out by stating the painfully obvious: there is absolutely no scenario in which Pakistan becomes a developed country, or...
A welcome rollback on coal-fired power
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement that Pakistan would seek to take a step back from its recent policy of promoting coal-fired power...