Reflections on Pakistan’s rural economy in the wake of the government’s agreement with the IMF
Monday
4th November
2019
YAN ISLAM | I was recently invited by the Pakistan Office of the ILO, based in…
Yan Islam
Revisiting India’s growth slowdown: How bad is it?
Tuesday
21st January
2020
YAN ISLAM | Abhijit Banerjee, who, along with Esther Duflo (his partner) and Michael Kremer, won…
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease?
Thursday
2nd April
2020
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease as desperate migrant workers struggle to…
The economic consequences of COVID-19: For the first time in 60 years, growth is expected to be zero in the Asian region
Friday
24th April
2020
The Asian region, which includes some of the most dynamic economies in the world and accounts for more than 60%…
How the great Indian lockdown became the great Indian ‘policy disaster’
Thursday
23rd July
2020
What happened? How did the great Indian lockdown fail to produce the expected outcomes? It appears that, instead of ‘flattening’…
How hard will the Indonesian economy be hit by the current pandemic?
Monday
10th August
2020
YAN ISLAM | Indonesia rose from the ruins of the 1997-1998 financial crisis in a commendable…
Will Indonesia succumb to a secular growth slow-down? If so, does it matter?
Friday
21st August
2020
YAN ISLAM | In an iconoclastic paper, Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers (2015), question the standard…
India in the wake of a pandemic-driven recession: Massive loss, modest response?
Monday
7th September
2020
YAN ISLAM | India’s national statistical agency announced on August 31 that quarterly (April to June,…
Why Asian nations should no longer play the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking game
Tuesday
22nd September
2020
YAN ISLAM | The Doing Business Report (henceforth DBR) is a celebrated flagship publication of the…
Coping with COVID-19: The perilous case of vaccine inequality
Friday
26th March
2021
YAN ISLAM | The Lancet Commission has urged the global community that rapid vaccination on a global…