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Nadeem Haque

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Director SIA. Formerly VC PIDE+ Deputy Chairman Planning Commission IMF. Designed/created RASTA social science research funding network. Researcher author
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Inherited democracy and closed political market

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By Nadeem Haque
| Business Recorder Verified
Pakistan’s dynastic politics is usually treated as a moral failure. We complain that fathers hand seats to sons, daughters inherit constituencies, brothers rotate offices, and families dominate assemblies generation after generation. This is true, but incomplete. Dynasties persist not only because political families are ambitious. They persist because Pakistan has built a political market that rewards inheritance and punishes outsiders. In economics, closed markets protect incumbents.
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Public narrative vs silent reality

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By Nadeem Haque, Shahid Kardar
| Dawn Verified
EVERY two months, the State Bank of Pakistan announces an interest rate. The announcement is treated as serious economic medicine. Hiking of the rate is presented as a fight against inflation and cuts as a spur to growth. Either way, the public narrative is the same: adults are managing the fragile economy with a sophisticated tool. What rarely gets mentioned is the trillions of rupees the SBP, quietly and regularly, pumps directly into the banking system with no public scrutiny or debate.
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Pakistan has equity appetite; its owners have control anxiety

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By Shahid Sattar, Nadeem Haque
| Business Recorder Verified
Pakistan keeps saying it has no capital. Firms complain that bank borrowing is expensive. Government complains that private investment is weak. Economists complain that debt dominates finance. Yet whenever a credible company comes to the stock market, investors appear. So let us stop pretending the problem is only lack of capital. The market has appetite. What it does not have is enough supply.
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