FATF: Facts, Diplomacy and Public Narrative By Hasaan Khawar
FATF’s plenary session concluded last week and as expected Pakistan stays on the grey list. However, a lot has changed …
Read MoreRemaining FATF Items | Editorial
THE FATF verdict is out. And there are no surprises. After its three-day plenary, the Paris-based global money laundering and …
Read More‘To remain on grey list’: FATF urges Pakistan to complete action plan by Feb 2021 By Fayyaz Hussain
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has found that Pakistan has successfully complied with 21 out of 27 points of …
Read MoreCOVID’s Impact on Pakistan Economy By Kashif Mirza
The outbreak of COVID-19 covered the whole world, posing severe socio-economic challenges, especially for the Developing Countries. Pre COVID-19, global …
Read MoreSurplus After Five Years | Editorial
Slowly, but surely, the indicators for Pakistan’s economy have started looking positive. After a gap of more than five years, …
Read MoreIMF Sees Hard Times Ahead For Pakistan | Editorial
Low growth predicted After the World Bank’s prediction of a one percent contraction of GDP in 2020-2021, the IMF’s prediction, …
Read MoreG20 Debt Suspension | Editorial
Finally the time has come when the G20 group of the world’s largest economies decides whether or not to extend …
Read MoreThe Trade War and Pakistan By Shehryar Hamesh Khan
WITH Trump coming to power in the US and the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in China, …
Read MoreA Scarred Economy | Editorial
The chief of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has said that while the world’s economy has suffered deeply as …
Read MoreEconomic Challenges By Dr Kamal Monnoo
In the last quarter 2019, the government announcement on Pak-China Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) stated that effective January 1, 2020, the …
Read MoreFATF Meeting | Editorial
With a little over two weeks left till the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) meeting to review the progress made …
Read MorePowering Gwadar For the Future By Kahuda Babar
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is poised to reshape the economic landscape of Pakistan in addition to opening multiple …
Read MoreForeign Policy as a Tool For Economic Development By Nasir Khan
The emerging powers, whose primary objective, both nationally and globally, has been to assist their growth and augment their protrusion …
Read MoreCircular Debt Worries | Editorial
PAKISTAN’S circular debt challenge is getting bigger by the day and the government is struggling hard to get a firm …
Read MoreMonetary Policy and the Economy | Editorial
Tomorrow the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will announce its new monetary policy and all eyes, especially in business circles, …
Read MoreGood News | Editorial
There is good news coming from Pakistan’s foreign investment front—Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) jumped 23.5 percent to $112.3 million in …
Read MoreRegional Trade | Editorial
THE decision to establish markets along Pakistan’s borders with Afghanistan and Iran to boost trade underscores our weak economic relationship …
Read MoreYet Another Milestone Under CPEC | Editorial
IN another landmark development under multibillion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, Pakistan and China inked an agreement on Monday …
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