M. Ziauddin analyses the circumstances under which the PTI government will present budget 2019-20 and the steps to be taken to reset Pakistan’s economy back on the road to progress. The storm that seems to ...
Muhammad Ziauddin in this article lays out the history of Pakistan’s IMF programmes and the political repercussions they brought upon the country. “If past experience of the Fund programmes is any measure it is hard ...
Muhammad Ziauddin in this article discusses the apparent takeover of the government by technocrats like Hafeez Sheikh, Reza Baqir and Syed Shabbar Zaidi. The EFF agreement signed between the IMF’s technical team and the official ...
M Ziauddin reviews a book from the Oxford University Press addressing the socioeconomic issues of the Sindh province. It identifies the particular issues that require reforms at the sectoral and micro level. The analysis on ...
Muhammad Ziauddin in this article argues how Pakistan can reduce its current account deficit by devising a sound, workable and administratively unambiguous manpower export policy, like India, Philippines and Bangladesh. It is not possible to ...
In this article Muhammad Ziauddin proposes to turn Pakistan into a trade-shipment economy, fixing our fractured relations with the countries in our immediate neighbourhood, because all efforts to turn the country into an export-led economy ...
Muhammad Ziauddin dives deep into the Hafiz Pasha Report which highlights the shortcomings in the implementation of the 18th amendment and concludes that planning process ought to change fundamentally. “It should become a ‘bottom-up’ process, ...
Muhammad Ziauddin explains Pakistan’s 70-year-old dilemma of choosing between an overvalued rupee and a free floating exchange rate that stemmed from the Korean War beginning in 1950 and a brief period of strong exports with ...
In this article, Muhammad Ziauddin explains why Pakistan cannot be compared with any of the Asian Tigers that we so want to emulate. He argues that acknowledging the country’s diversity is the key to fixing ...
Muhammad Ziauddin argues that Pakistan started its long, tiring journey into economic dependence during Ayub’s era and with 40 years of constant war, without improving our resource and wealth generation capabilities, it was impossible for ...
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