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Pakistonomy - Episode 92 - Escaping the "Nazuk Mor"

Jan 28, 202256 min
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In this Urdu discussion, Uzair talks to Shahid Mehmood about a recent article he published which showed how major issues since at least the 1980s continue to plague the economy. The discussion focuses on key drivers of these issues, why policy does not change to deal with this reality, and includes updates on economic developments in the former FATA regions. Shahid Mehmood is an economist and research fellow at PIDE. You can read his article here - https://www.dawn.com/news/1669368 You can read the PIDE Growth Strategy here - https://pide.org.pk/Research/PIDE-Reform-Agenda-Report.pdf Reading Recommendations: - Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond - Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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