Reflections on Pakistan’s rural economy in the wake of the government’s agreement with the IMF
YAN ISLAM | I was recently invited by the Pakistan Office of the ILO, based in Islamabad, to…
YAN ISLAM | I was recently invited by the Pakistan Office of the ILO, based in Islamabad, to…
YAN ISLAM | Abhijit Banerjee, who, along with Esther Duflo (his partner) and Michael Kremer, won the latest…
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease as desperate migrant workers struggle to…
The Asian region, which includes some of the most dynamic economies in the world and accounts for more than 60%…
What happened? How did the great Indian lockdown fail to produce the expected outcomes? It appears that, instead of ‘flattening’…
YAN ISLAM | Indonesia rose from the ruins of the 1997-1998 financial crisis in a commendable fashion. Economic…
YAN ISLAM | In an iconoclastic paper, Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers (2015), question the standard view that…
YAN ISLAM | India’s national statistical agency announced on August 31 that quarterly (April to June, 2020) GDP…
YAN ISLAM | The Doing Business Report (henceforth DBR) is a celebrated flagship publication of the World Bank.
YAN ISLAM | The Lancet Commission has urged the global community that rapid vaccination on a global scale is…