Tag: Aqdas Afzal

IF there were a central bankers’ roll of honour, it would prominently feature Paul Volcker’s name, perhaps even at the very top. Volcker, who died in 2019 at the age … Read More

DESPITE the sweltering heat, there is tremendous energy all around the Galle Face Green, the famous sea front park, close to the presidential secretariat in Colombo. Young people are swarming … Read More

ONE of the first concepts in undergraduate economics textbooks is the distinction between positive and normative analysis. A positive analysis describes the world objectively, or as it is empirically observed, … Read More

AS China recently celebrated 10 years of the Belt and Road Initiative, the mood remained sombre in Beijing largely because the “strategic competition” between China and the US has grown … Read More

IN March this year, shocking images of former US president Donald Trump’s arrest suddenly surfaced on the internet. In one of the images, Donald Trump was seen darting across the … Read More

WE live in an Anglo-Saxon world. In a broad sense, this means that a combination of UK-US institutions has come to encompass our lives. For starters, many people around the … Read More

THE volatile events in Pakistan over the last year have been an upheaval in themselves. A political crisis morphed into an economic one that was then reinforced by a climate … Read More