Dr. Dr. Ammar A. Malik عمار ملک examines how shifts in global finance affect developing nations and their governments' capacity to invest in national progress. Watch the full conversation on YouTube at 1:30 PM today 👇 youtube.com/@Tabadlab

What should Pakistan prioritise for sustainable development? Experts Dr. Dr. Ammar A. Malik عمار ملک, Azeema Cheema, and Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra diagnose the problem.

We have to have a mid-to-long term economic growth strategy in Pakistan. Short of that, I don’t see any hope of us making use of this demographic dividend. - Dr. Ammar A. Malik عمار ملک

In the second panel for the 2025 Summit, we'll ask experts Dr. Ammar A. Malik عمار ملک, Azeema Cheema, and Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra to tackle these questions and address how Pakistanis may frame questions of rights, entitlements, and quality of life in the coming year. Watch👇 lnkd.in/d-ZCseHk

AidData is thrilled to launch our #PowerPlaybook report & dataset on #China's efforts to secure #CriticalMinerals key to industries of the future. We analyzed $57 B in Chinese official sector finance, w/ granular project info. Get report & data here 👉 aiddata.org/china-transiti…

Some questions triggered by the release of DeepSeek R1 on January 20. These are formulated as questions, because I do not know the answers and it may well be that most of these answers are only things we can find out over time. First, perhaps the most important question is this:

Timely new paper in AEA Journals: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance -- to which U.S. aid contributes about $300m a year -- has "saved around 1.5 million lives at a cost of about US$9,000 per life saved."

I’ve been seeing Hira's musical journey for a long time, but this debut song is something special! She’s put so much heart into it, and it really shows. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! 📷 Listen here: open.spotify.com/album/6xa0IsDK…

This is how Pakistani spectators showed concern about safety of guest player.. x.com/_Juggan2233/st…

We may have hit the inflection point, what I'm calling "peak stability", as liquidity conditions in the FX markets tighten, the trade deficit grows, exchange rate comes under pressure, and econ stability hits its natural limit. My piece in Dawn today. dawn.com/news/1893123

اللہ تعالی ہمارے بہادر بھائی اکمل شہید کے درجات بلند فرمائے۔ 27 سالہ اکمل کے لواحقین میں ایک ننھا 3 ماہ کا بیٹا ہے۔ جعفر ایکسپریس میں قید شہریوں کو بازیاب کروانے کے آپریشن میں سپوت سرزمین شکرگڑھ، ضلع نارووال نے اس ملک پر اپنی جان نچھاور کر دی۔ یا اللہ یہ قربانی رائیگاں نہ جائے!

🚨 Exciting news for my fellow sovereign debt nerds! Sharing a new dataset on sovereign external debt crises: haircuts by restructuring & aggregated by debt-crisis spell since 1815. Updated to Dec 2024 & alive. Hopefully useful for research and policy alike!

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Looking forward to meeting fellow LUMS alumni in D.C., hosted by Dr Ammar Malik. If you are in town, swing by. Sign up by May 4th: forms.gle/uCaEK675fgzQtq…

Pakistan vs France Palenty Shootouts Highlights 🏑

📢New deep-dive paper on China’s BRI lending (Georgetown/AidData/Kiel). We study "How China Collateralizes" its overseas loans — not with ports/infrastructure, but with cash in Chinese bank accounts. The techniques and volumes are striking.🧵Paper here: ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Date…

The Paris Club’s annual update is very commendable, but I’ve always found it puzzling as its figures often diverge from those in DSAs or country-reports. This only reinforces the case for an automated creditor/borrower reconciliation platform: worldbank.org/en/publication…

The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.

Something remarkable just happened in Pakistan. In only 8 months, citizens built the equivalent of half the country’s national electric grid, without waiting for government or utilities. How? ☀️ Cheap solar panels ☀️ TikTok tutorials showing how to install them ☀️ Farmers

A century of progress in access to primary education— The world has made major progress in expanding access to education. A century ago, most children did not have the option to go to school at all. Today, access to education is widely seen as a basic right that governments are