Concise, research-backed policy documents addressing pressing economic issues. Each brief includes structured metadata for academic indexing and Google Scholar discoverability.
The Policy Insights series presents original analytical briefs on fiscal policy, special economic zone strategy, urban economic governance, hydro-economic security, and regional development across Pakistan and the GCC. Each brief is peer-authored by Dr. Ghulam Mohey-ud-din and is available as a PDF download. All Policy Briefs are published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence — free to share with attribution, not for commercial use or adaptation.
Punjab has signed an accelerating stream of high-profile investment commitments — from the October 2025 Pak-Saudi Joint Business Council MoU to the Saudi-UAE shrimp estates project and recent AIIB engagement on Lahore infrastructure — yet realised inflows remain a fraction of announced volumes. Using DPIIT attribution methodology, the Indian state of Karnataka alone reported FDI…
Punjab has signed an accelerating stream of high-profile investment commitments — from the October 2025 Pak-Saudi Joint Business Council MoU to the Saudi-UAE shrimp estates project and recent AIIB engagement on Lahore infrastructure — yet realised inflows remain a fraction…
Pakistan's industrial electricity tariff — at 15.7 US cents per kilowatt-hour (all-inclusive, June 2025) — stands roughly double the regional average, creating a structural cost disadvantage embedded into every unit of production. Four distinct dysfunctions have converged to produce this…
Pakistan's binding economic constraint is not policy design but delivery — exports at 10.4 percent of GDP and FDI at 0.7 percent reflect a decade of reforms announced and abandoned before implementation. Three converging failures drive this pattern: a delivery…
Karachi and Lahore account for over a third of Pakistan's large-scale manufacturing output. This brief diagnoses five structural failures sustaining industrial hyper-concentration and advances six sequenced reform recommendations.
This policy brief by Dr Ghulam Mohey-ud-din examines the structural challenges facing Punjab’s labour mobility framework amid record-high national remittances and rising youth unemployment. The author argues that without a strategic shift, the export of workers remains a mere macroeconomic coping mechanism rather than a sustainable development…
Pakistan's agricultural economy — consuming over 90 percent of national freshwater and contributing approximately 19–23 percent of GDP — is governed by a water-sharing framework crafted in 1960 with no provisions for climate change or glacial retreat (World Bank, 2023a;…
Pakistan's urban population has expanded from approximately 33 percent in 2000 to 38 percent today (World Bank, 2023), yet this demographic shift has not translated into productivity gains historically associated with urbanization. Cities have grown physically without deepening economically —…
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