What demographic winter?

By Memoona Qazi Published in The News on April 15, 2023 The population discourse around the world has witnessed quite a turnaround recently as the demographic debate seems to be highlighting countries’ concerns around shrinking populations. Most countries in Europe and North America and even Russia are already experiencing what some demographers call a ‘demographic winter’ – […]

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Ensuring sovereign default

By Mansoor Hassan Khan Published in Dawn on April 15, 2023 THE most conspicuous aspect of our national discourse on the imminent sovereign default of the country is an absence of any discussion on how we reached this point and the way out. The prescribed remedy is that Pakistan should borrow its way out of its foreign[…]

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ECONOMY: PAKISTAN’S STORY OF DEBT

By Nadeem Hussain Published in Dawn on December 18, 2022 The recent debate on whether Pakistan is going to default or not requires revisiting the country’s current debt and reviewing how it has accumulated over time. The story of Pakistan’s economy is incomplete without the character of its debt. Pakistan’s economic challenge began following Independence in August[…]