Tag: Shahid Mehmood

IN the 1970s, a young graduate from Lahore’s University of Engineering Technology was on the lookout for a job. One of his first applications was to the publicly run Pakistan … Read More

ECONOMIC headlines in Pakistan are centred on big macro numbers, which often miss important insights. One such instance focused on the amount of ‘development’ expenditure released in the first month … Read More

THE topic of Pakistan’s non-ending economic quagmire elicits many proposals, some good, some reworded, and some repetitive. Rarely, if ever, is there a discussion on cultural aspects impinging on economic … Read More

EVERY year brings forth a plethora of books on various topics. As far as economics is concerned, one of the interesting releases of 2023 was Didac Queralt’s Pawned States. Analysing … Read More