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Saturday December 21, 2024
S M Naseem

  • December 17, 2021

    Remembering Ercelaan

    In the passing away of Aly Alp Ercelaan, in a Peshawar hospital on November 26, Pakistan’s economics profession has been robbed of a highly...

  • April 16, 2021

    Institutional autonomy in Pakistan

    The recent kerfuffle about central bank autonomy in Pakistan is unraveling some basic fissures in Pakistan’s economy, confronting which our...

  • August 30, 2018

    Simplicity with a twist

    Imran Khan’s maiden speech as the prime minister of Pakistan has had a widespread and a generally favourable reception. The central theme that...

  • July 18, 2017

    In defence of the ‘looters’

    The Bahawalpur petrol tanker disaster resulted in over 200 deaths and severe burn injuries to another 50 people. The tragic incident has evoked a...

  • May 03, 2017

    Globalisation with a military face

    For some time, the populists across the world have been celebrating the “highly-exaggerated” news of the demise of globalisation, with...

  • March 04, 2017

    In memory of Nigar

    Nigar Ahmad, a close friend and a former colleague at the economics department of Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, passed away on Friday,...

  • December 24, 2016

    The trilemma of developing states

    The focus of this year’s 32nd annual meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists was almost exclusively on the...

  • February 15, 2016

    Education in the time of terror

    Two harrowing wake-up calls – the Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014 that saw over 140 children killed, and...