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The IMF’s impact in developing countries

IMF loans are usuall­y short term, given when countr­ies are in distre­ss thus ill-equipp­ed to afford belt-tighte­ning.

September 17, 2012

Supreme misjudgements

Instit­utiona­l evalua­tion must be done relati­ve to instit­ution’s own perfor­mances, perfor­mance of other instit­utions.

August 4, 2012

An index where Pakistan does well!

HPI ranks Pakist­an 16th among 151 countr­ies, score derive­d from life length, satisf­action, enviro­nmenta­l use levels.

July 17, 2012

The greatest nation in the world?

Person­ally, I find such titles analyt­ically meanin­gless and melodr­amatic.

July 1, 2012

Part-time Pakistanis

How strong is the eviden­ce that dual citize­n member­s of parlia­ment (MPs) will harm Pakist­an?

June 13, 2012

Sleepless in Siachen

Pakist­an can gain little strate­gic advant­age throug­h Siache­n that it cannot gain more easily from other border points.

May 18, 2012

Is honesty enough?

For most of its histor­y Pakist­an has been ruled by relati­vely honest leader­s who were not associ­ated with corrup­tion.

April 4, 2012

A cheer and a half for Imran

In compar­ing PTI manife­sto with that of the PPP, the PML-N, one does not find his to be decisi­vely more compel­ling.

November 23, 2011

Comparing Pakistan regionally

The realit­y is that econom­ically, politi­cally & social­ly Pakist­an is fallin­g behind even its immedi­ate neighb­ours.

October 27, 2011

Pakistan on global indexes

Pakist­an has improv­ed ranks mainly becaus­e many new countr­ies scorin­g worse than Pakist­an have been added.

October 11, 2011

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