A POPULAR refrain of policymakers, many TV anchors and most public commentators in Pakistan is to vilify the IMF and to blame it for the country’s myriad economic woes ranging from the rupee ‘devaluation’ to inflation.
To what extent is the IMF responsible for our predicament
remnant, armtwist, unwavering, colossal challenge
But today’s incessant media manufactures information, indignation, outrage and hate which obliterate the possibilities for rational discourse and compromise, without which challenges will not even be addressed, let alone overcome.
The IMF descends upon Pakistan when it is faced with economic calamity and its political leaders happily waste time in litigation and mutual imprecations. They will gladly accept the IMF’s “tough love” as long as it requires neither
A POPULAR refrain of policymakers, many TV anchors and most public commentators in Pakistan is to vilify the IMF and to blame it for the country’s myriad economic woes ranging from the rupee ‘devaluation’ to inflation
The foregoing evidence should close the chapter on whether the IFIs, in particular the two Bretton Woods ‘sisters’, are aligned with US foreign policy objectives and whether their policy advice can be agenda-driven.
Where the IFIs fit into the US-constructed global “rules-based order”, meant to exert and assert its influence in the world,
The foregoing evidence should close the chapter on whether the IFIs, in particular the two Bretton Woods ‘sisters’, are aligned with US foreign policy objectives and whether their policy advice can be agenda-driven.
It is designed to avoid introspection, or to accept culpability and responsibility for poor policy choices over a protracted period, and instead shift the blame entirely to external agents and exogenous shocks.
A corollary to the conventional wisdom in the country regarding the BWIs is that the loans taken by Pakistan over the decades from these institutions are ‘odious’, since they were ‘forced’ onto the country.This is completely disingenuous as project loans from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank etc have helped finance the construction
Here we discuss Pakistan’s blue economy, including its underutilisation. How can decision-makers and key players tap this economy’s potential for a self-sufficient and sustainable Pakistan,
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has ennobled and honoured mankind with special rights
Though human beings have been given a modicum of soul-related knowledge, they are considered to be the crown of creation
The body is material, limited in time, space and subject to the vicissitudes of life.
. The poor and other helpless and vulnerable people are treated cruelly and their rights are usurped; thus we still hear painful stories of servitude, forced and compulsory labour, human trafficking etc. The violation of human rights seems rampant; those who possess power — material or physical — often suppress and oppress the powerless.
But the prejudices and inequities that have plagued humanity in the past continue to exist and are responsible for untold suffering
Since primitive times, human history is replete with events mentioning the violation of human rights on the basis of religion, caste, creed, colour etc
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