Articles by Nasir Jamal
PAKISTAN’S successful debut in China’s onshore bond market through the issuance of its first-ever Panda Bond is undoubtedly an important financial milestone. Raising RMB1.75 billion at a remarkabl...
Pakistan’s official tax discourse is mostly structured around a single question: how to collect more revenue. This narrow obsession with short-term revenue targets has produced a deeply distorted ta...
President Asif Zardari’s week-long visit to China is widely interpreted as a fresh push by Pakistan to recalibrate its “all-weather” partnership around hard economic priorities, with investment,...
Over time, workers’ remittances have evolved into the single most critical stabilising force for Pakistan’s external sector, effectively anchoring both the current account and broader balance of p...
Pakistan’s sales tax system was designed in a value-added mode to collect revenues at every link of the supply chain and document the economy. However, despite being in place for over a quarter of a...
Reports of the dollar’s imminent demise may be exaggerated. However, the sharp gold price surges in recent years highlight that a consequential change in the international financial system is underw...
The new federal agricultural financing scheme, Zarkhez-e, is being touted by the authorities as a major government-backed intervention aimed at expanding collateral-free credit to small, subsistence f...
