Historians will write that every nuclear power in the world faced a shortage of ventilators in 2020.
علی حسنین Ali Hasanain
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain
@AliHasanain
I think about 🇵🇰's economy.
Econ @LifeAtLUMS
@eagpakistan @HaqMahbub
Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow @egaptweets. Views expressed = own
Joined December 2009
- Despite having an Econ PhD, 2 post doctorates, and a decade of post-PhD research and teaching, I have never felt competent to speak on the SBP's rates because it's not my field of work. Then, there's this guy.Replying to @AliZafarsaysGreat to find that SBP has cut rates in an emergency meeting to 11%. Their Statement says that they are ready to take whatever further actions necessary. Exactly what is required! #economiccrisis
- How am I supposed to explain this to my students? How do I convince them that they are not, in fact, second-class citizens in their own nation?
- So impressed by 🇵🇰 law enforcement's capacity to track & crack down on those who damaged state property 👏 Wonder where that capacity goes when robbers loot shops, people are shot in courtrooms, minors & mothers are raped & people in big offices break the constitution? 🤔
- In 1991, Nawaz Sharif asked Lee Kuan Yew, the father of modern Singapore and a famously erudite world leader to visit and study Pakistan's problems. LKY writes in 'From Third World to First' that:
- Reposting: Pakistan's exports as a % of GDP and the Dar(k) years of an overvalued PKR.
- Between 1990 & 2021, the average Indian's income quadrupled; the average Pakistani's? Didn't double. Competing with 🇮🇳 is a national pastime, yet we've spent little energy in understanding what they started doing right in 1991. Starting a 🧵, to which I hope to add occasionally
- We have brainwashed ourselves into thinking a cheaper dollar and PSX rally are indicators of a healthy economy. Our media are hyper-focused on day-to-day movements and don't contextualize numbers meaningfully. Focus on fundamentals. What has improved, except access to a loan?Another great day, US$ trading at Rs 270 down 15 Rs just today this rupee appreciation of about 6 percent follows almost same 6 percent rise in Pakistan Stock Exchange index yesterday. Best 2 consecutive days for Pak economy in last several years
- 2013 Budget: PMLN 2014 Budget: PMLN 2015 Budget: PMLN 2016 Budget: PMLN 2017 Budget: PMLN 2018 Budget: PMLN 2022 Budget: PMLN 2023 Budget: PMLN 2024 Budget: PMLN The guy who presented half the budgets since 2013 is Deputy PM. Still they are inexperienced. Give them more time.Lack of experience of the economic team is fully visible in the budget documents. This budget will lead us nowhere. Even if the Government catches the bus of the IMF with this budget, there will be more than one mini budgets during course of the year. The only point of
- Incorrect per Cabinet meeting minutes.
Replying to @peconomist_فوج اس منصوبےسےکسی بھی قسم کا کوئ آمدن میں حصہ وصول نہیں کر ے گی- #زراعت_ہمارا_مستقبل #جوان_اور_کسان - This might be the saddest thing I've seen in two decades as a Pakistani economist.The atta line. Thank you PDM. JUI. ANP.
- How will we heal from Moazzam Gondal's kids trying to wake him up, or Azam Swati's cries? 💔 Our enemies don't need to send saboteurs. We are self-sufficient in destroying 🇵🇰😢
- What an amazing response to reports that a public servant of a country where half our kids are malnourished has built up assets worth PKR 12.7 Billion while in service! Dar takes notice of ‘illegal, unwarranted’ leak of COAS Bajwa’s family’s tax records
- What an atrocious allocation of public 💰 An elevated highway cutting above communities where that money could build schools & clinics or improve sanitation (see the video 👇 😱) Instead, they want to cut a 20 min journey to 10 mins. @PnD_Punjab should roll over & die.
🚀#ElevatedExpressway is a game changer project, offering a⏱️10-minute commute from Main Boulevard Gulberg to the motorway toll plaza. Spanning 10.2 km, it will accommodate around 100,000💯vehicles daily, alleviating🚦traffic and 🌍environmental pollution. youtu.be/gzDJnPFCGtA
