Negotiating with the IMF

Better times indeed! The fact is, we are fast running out of foreign exchange reserves. And with friends reluctant to bail us out, another IMF programme seems increasingly inevitable.

How to promote Industrial Growth in Punjab

Evidence of the benefits of industrial clusters has attracted interest among policy makers. These benefits have been used to justify cluster policies in various countries like Korea, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and France.

Lahore School of Economics International Conference on Applied Development Economics

Lahore School of Economics hosted its first International Conference on Applied Development Economics on 12-13 September 2018 at the Lahore School’s Burki Campus.

Handling the Balance of Payments Crisis in Pakistan

Pakistan can tackle its balance of payments woes by slowing down gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

The BoP Crisis

I argued two weeks back, addressing the incoming Prime Minister, because I thought it was a matter of pith and urgency that Pakistan’s BOP crisis was structural

Locating Industries Along Key CPEC Routes

Pakistan needs an active policy that promotes growth of key industries located along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) routes, stated a study conducted by the Lahore School of Economics (LSE)

Dear incoming Prime Minister Khan

Unless the country's mandate and I have got it wrong, you have done a remarkable thing.

CPEC and Industrial Strategy - Opportunities and Synergies (An analysis done by the Lahore School of Economics)

Over the last few years, the Pakistani economy has started to gather some momentum.

Economic Crisis Management

DO forgive the people of this country if they cannot make sense of our present economic predicament.

Regaining Stability

MACROECONOMIC stability is a precondition for sustained and higher economic growth as it provides the much-needed confidence in the economy’s future prospects to investors — foreign and domestic — and global markets.