Pakistan has proposed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) establish a multilateral framework on investment facilitation. Seventy other countries have supported the initiative, which will be considered at the next WTO ministerial conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2020. In preparation, a high-level forum was held in Astana on 28 September 2018. Pakistan’s participant at the forum was our Graduate Institute’s Visiting Professor, Khalil Hamdani.
Published in Dawn on December 20, 2025 ISLAMABAD: The IMF’s Resident Chief in Pakistan, Mahir Binic, on Friday cautioned that the country’s macroeconomic vulnerabilities persist, underscoring the need for continued and credible reform efforts. The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) convened a policy session on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility (EFF), focusing on […]
By S. Akbar Zaidi Published in Dawn on December 19, 2025 PAKISTAN is in decline — in serious, considerable and sharp decline — as manifested by its economic, social and human development indicators. This decline is both relative to other comparable developing countries which have now steadily and increasingly outpaced Pakistan as indicated by multiple indicators, and[…]
