Pakistan economy

With the EU and U.S. increasingly using climate targets as trade barriers, Pakistan risks being left behind in the global trend toward sustainability. But it can also be an opportunity for Pakistan to build climate resilience.

It is politics, not economics, that is preventing a wholesale turnaround of Pakistan’s broader trajectory.

India-Pakistan trade has been especially difficult since 2019. What would it take for the neighbors to overcome present barriers to trade?

Among other reforms, it is considering privatizing dozens of loss-making state-owned enterprises.

Implementing a proactive strategic policy for Pakistani SMEs is imperative, as the performance of domestic industries is the biggest advertisement for outsiders to follow suit and invest in the country. 

But the country’s aggressive posturing against India will make it difficult for the government to take the process forward.

Key ministries have been assigned to those the establishment deems reliable.

Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the Fund not to extend a loan to Pakistan unless an audit of the controversial election is done.

People on the street say they don't believe things will be different after this election.

Informal trade in oil and other goods, which previously provided people in border villages with income, has been halted without putting alternative means of livelihood in place.

Pakistan’s IT exports nearly doubled over the past five years, but that rate of growth is not sustainable – unless the government takes drastic action.