
Category: Growth and Development


The IMF Choice

What is the Size of the Government Footprint on Pakistan’s Economy?

The Mullah Led Development Model

Institution-Building-The Philanthropic Approach

PIDE’s Reform Agenda to Achieve Sustainable Growth in the Agriculture Sector

Growth Amidst Debt?

Tax Gap, Compliance Cost and Optimal Taxation

Budget 2021-22: Where Do We Stand?

Pending Pakistan’s Revised Base Estimates of GDP and Measurement Issues in LSM

RCET Policy: A Boon or A Bane for Pakistan?

Drawbacks of the Duty Drawback

It Is High Time We Revisited the NFC Awards in Pakistan

An Apology to the Youth of Pakistan from the Older Generation

PIDE’s Growth Reform Agenda

Investigation of Livestock Value Chain: Constraints and Policy Implications

Finding Meaningfulness in Indicators of Country Level Ranking Reports

How to increase exports for Pakistan’s sustainable economic growth?

Ageing in Pakistan: A Curse or Blessing?

Understanding Violence and Social Order

Transforming India’s Agriculture Sector for Achieving Global Competitiveness

How digital we are?

The Quaid’s Economic Model

CTBCM: Delusion of a Market

Debt is a Problem for Us, Growth is the Solution

Pakistan’s Fatal Conceit of State Economic Interventions

Pakistan Steel Mills: A Cortege to Collapse

Irregular Migration During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pakistan Needs Its Own Magna Carta

Circular Economy: A Need for the 21st Century

There is Something About Exports: and It Is Productivity

The Economic Cost of Political Protests

Pakistan’s Power Sector Woes: Part III

Pakistan’s Low Cost Housing Finance Policy

Pakistan’s Power Sector Woes – Pt II

Pakistan’s Power Sector Woes – Pt I

State of Graduate Unemployment in Pakistan

State of Education in Pakistan

Is Pakistan Prematurely Deindustrializing?

Flattening the Curve; Pensions This Time!

Do We Need Metro Bus System for Improving Female Mobility?

Need for Inclusive Education

Who Protects Our ‘Thought’ Industry?

Avoiding a Second Wave of COVID-19 Infections: Appeal to Other-regarding Preference

The Challenges of Pakistan’s National Tariff Policy

Primary Education in Pakistan

An Ad and a Postal Stamp!

Energy Productivity for Sustainable Development – Pt II

Ideas Matter?

Understanding the Textile Value Chain (TVC)

Energy Productivity for Sustainable Development – Pt I

A Local Economic Development Approach for Faisalabad

What is Holding Back Milk Production in Pakistan?

Mis-targeting or Under-performance: A case of Monetary Policy in Pakistan

Employees Engagement and Augmented Learning

Devolving Power

Anti-Corruption Dynamics of Pakistan in Face of Succumbed Perceptions

Decentralization and Institutions: An Insight

Take Policy Back From the ‘Economic Hit-men’

High Rise, Lahore Urban Sprawl and PM Khan’s Directive

Macro Models for Policy

Enough “Bricks and Mortar”!

Urban Management: Thinking Beyond Master Plans

A Quick Note on SBP Announcement

Invisible Damage: The Hidden Cost of Breathing Polluted Air

Production Or Real Estate Activities: What do we want from SEZs and IEs

Tax Policies for Growth

What Our Textile Sector Can Learn from Vietnam’s Progress

Milk Production in Pakistan

Reconciling the Teaching of Economics

Farewell, Volcker

SDGs and Donor Involvement

Let’s Have A New Discussion on Poverty Estimates

Pakistan’s New Tariff Policy – Long Overdue Strategy for the Future

Educated Women Are at Higher Risk of Mistimed Birth

An Obstacle to Development: Pakistan’s Electric Power Sector

Tracing the Zombies: Unproductive Capital in Pakistan

Resilient Civil Society and Development

The C-Section Epidemic in Pakistan

War for Talent: The Skills Gap

Are Ulama Agents of Social Change in Pakistan?

Doing Away with the 1861 Police Act

Issues and Strategies to Revitalize the Agriculture Sector of Pakistan

CPEC and Pakistan’s Debt Burden

Bikes, Density and Cars

Potential for Economic Cooperation with Afghanistan: Proximity Geo-Economic Nexus

Why are We Subsidizing Car-Use?

Where are the opportunities for the poor?

Masterplan of Islamabad (2020-2040)

Kartarpur Corridor: A New Avenue of Capital Inflow for Pakistan

Why not Khokhas Everywhere?

Building Industry-Academia Linkages: A Latent Solution

High Population Growth in Pakistan: A Supply AND Demand Side Issue

Need of the Hour: Simplicity and not Complexity in the SEZ Act

Food Insecurity in Pakistan – Status and Plausible Causes

Mapping out a Tourism Policy for the Potohar Plateau

FDI and Regional Connectivity Seminar at PIDE

Economic cost of political conflict
