Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Murtaza Syed

The writer is Head of Ecosystem at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing. He has more than 20 years of experience in macroeconomic research and policymaking. He worked for 16 years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and recently served as Acting Governor and Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. Murtaza has a PhD in economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University. He tweets @murtazahsyed

How To End Pakistan’s Dangerous Current Account Deficits

For the last fifty years, Pakistan’s macroeconomic management has been among the poorest in the world. This is most starkly manifested in 23 IMF programs, which is the most that any country has ever had. This makes us the IMF’s most notorious repeat offender....

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Is Imran-Bushra Iddat Case...

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