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Global digital currency landscape showing AI, CBDCs, and cryptocurrencies over a world map with financial data flows

Digital currency wars are transforming global finance as AI-driven monetary policy, CBDCs, and fintech platforms reshape exchange rates, monetary sovereignty, and financial stability. This in-depth analysis examines digital monetary blocs,

Infographic explaining why Pakistan privatized PIA, showing losses, governance failures, Rs 135 billion deal structure, fiscal risk transfer, employment safeguards, and reform risks

The PIA privatization reform deal marks a turning point in Pakistan’s handling of loss making state owned enterprises. Years of mounting deficits made incremental fixes ineffective, as explained in EconomicLens’

PIA aircraft shown at the center of a policy visual illustrating Pakistan’s Rs 135 billion privatization deal, highlighting fiscal pressure and reform risks

The PIA privatization deal at Rs 135 billion is a landmark Pakistan SOE reform. This policy note examines the deal structure, fiscal risk transfer, IMF reform alignment, governance challenges, and

PIA privatization reform infographic showing rising losses, fiscal burden, operational inefficiency, and market decline under state ownership

PIA privatization reform highlights how prolonged losses, rising fiscal exposure, and weak productivity can force decisive policy change. While repeated bailouts delayed collapse, inefficiencies deepened. This chart-based visual story explains

Illustration showing Sudan’s map overlaid with oil, gold, and economic trend symbols highlighting resource conflict and economic instability in 2025

The Sudan crisis 2025 has evolved into a multidimensional humanitarian and geopolitical emergency. Millions have been displaced. Economic activity has collapsed. As a result, global markets face volatility through disrupted

PIA privatisation as Arif Habib Group wins Rs135 billion bid, showing Pakistan International Airlines aircraft with financial and aviation reform visuals

PIA privatization marks a major reform milestone as the Arif Habib consortium secures a Rs135bn bid. This data-driven analysis explains the fiscal losses, operational inefficiencies, and economic impact behind the

Pakistan critical minerals economy illustrated through a map showing mineral reserves, extraction zones, and rising economic value chains

Pakistan minerals economy is gaining global attention as demand for copper, lithium, and rare earths rises. This Weekly Economic Brief examines mineral reserves, global demand trends, weak value chains, regional

Illustrated silhouette of Donald Trump with rising deficit charts, U.S. Capitol, and federal debt symbols highlighting U.S. fiscal risks from tax policy

Trump’s tax legacy has become a central factor shaping U.S. fiscal balances, inequality trends, and global economic spillovers in the post pandemic period. While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Red Sea shipping disruptions showing vessel rerouting via the Cape of Good Hope, longer transit times, reduced shipping capacity, and rising global freight costs driving inflation

Red Sea shipping disruptions are reshaping global trade as security risks force rerouting, reduce effective shipping capacity, and reset freight costs higher, amplifying food, energy, and consumer inflation across import-dependent

$Illustration of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa institutional crisis showing a government building fractured by overlapping security, fiscal, and governance stresses$

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa crisis represents a multi-layered breakdown of governance, economic stability, and social cohesion. This policy note examines how security disruptions, poverty, corruption, and youth vulnerability reinforce institutional decay,

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