Archive - The Economy

The myth of foreign investment

there are no shortcuts to development

Oct 29 •

September 2024

My advice for Bangladesh

designing macro-financial policy

Sep 23 •

August 2024

Fiscal dominance: when the body attacks itself

A country dives into fiscal dominance when concerns about government debt start “dominating” everything else - like an autoimmune disease that starts…

Aug 31 •

Power and Plots

General Faiz Hameed, the once powerful head of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, was recently arrested on charges of intimidating a land developer to…

Aug 28 •

Pakistan's zombie power sector

sunk cost fallacy

Aug 21 •

The structural roots of development

why Pakistan is not a typical developing country

Aug 20 •

Nervous system and development

Cogito, ergo sum

Aug 18 •

On poverty traps, and Pakistan

when change cannot be incremental

Aug 17 •

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