By Asad Rahim Khan Published in Dawn on September 28, 2021 OUR story starts in the spring of ’68, in the 10th year of our field marshal Ayub, when economist Mahbub-ul-Haq made a speech in Karachi. Less than two dozen industrial groups had become “the ministry of finance for the private sector”, Mahbub said, with “a stranglehold […]
By Faraz Ahmed Published in The Express Tribune on September 20, 2021 KARACHI: There has been a recent slide in Pakistani rupee against the basket of main currencies, mainly the US dollar, where the rout intensified lately, hitting a multi-year low of Rs169 in the forex market before the State Bank intervened in an effort to curb[…]
By Umair Javed Published in Dawn on September 20, 2021 LAST week, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics released findings from the Labour Force Survey of 2018-19. LFS is probably Pakistan’s best sample survey dataset on a range of important developmental indicators, going back at least 38 years. The LFS is of particular interest to anyone interested in[…]