The Importer-Exporter Asymmetry: My Position Why Pakistan's banking system serves the people who send dollars out and punishes the people who bring dollars in By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 9-min read What this cluster post is part of This is one of four cluster posts under my position...
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The Productive Capital Account: A Reform Proposal for Pakistan's FCY System Eligibility, safeguards, mechanics, and the projected $125 to 180 billion five-year benefit to Pakistan By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 21-min read Why Pakistan needs a new framework, not another tweak Pakistan h...
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What India, Singapore, UAE, Malaysia and Bangladesh Do That Pakistan Refuses To Five peer countries that operate liberalised foreign currency frameworks while remaining FATF-compliant and IMF-compatible By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 19-min read Why this comparison settles the argument...
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How Pakistan's FCY System Costs the Productive Class $25 to 36 Billion a Year The full anatomy of who pays, who collects, and why the country is approximately neutral on the entire transaction By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 20-min read Why the cost matters When economists discuss Pakist...
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The Foreign Currency Account in Pakistan: A 76-Year History (1947 to 2026) How the country built, broke, and rebuilt the rules that govern who gets to hold dollars By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 22-min read Why this history matters When I started looking at Pakistan's foreign currency f...
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Pakistan's Foreign Currency System Did Not Protect Us. It Extracted From Us. My position on Pakistan's foreign currency account problem after looking at the evidence By Asad Baig · Lahore · May 2026 · Approx. 18-min read Why I am writing this My name is Asad Baig. I am not an economist. I am not a...
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Should You Install Solar in Pakistan in 2026? An Honest Guide for Pakistani Households What changed in February 2026, what the new math actually looks like, and how to decide for your home or business By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 17-min read The question every Pakistani family is as...
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What Is a Take-or-Pay Contract? A Plain-English Guide for Pakistanis The single contractual provision that put Rs. 2 trillion a year on your electricity bill By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read Why this one phrase matters If you read any Pakistani newspaper article about the ele...
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The Capital Cost Trick: How Inflated Costs Locked In Inflated Tariffs How Pakistani IPPs were built on books that priced concrete and steel at three times the global rate, and why your bill has been paying for it ever since By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 8-min read The number that mak...
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Tajikistan, Lebanon, Haiti, Pakistan. Every country addicted to remittances has stayed poor. The structural reasons no labour-export economy has ever developed.
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Pakistani workers earn 15 to 35 percent less than Indians for the same job in the Gulf. The reason is not skill. It is the state's failure to negotiate.
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A 30-year, 5-phase plan to reverse Pakistan's brain drain. Three industries, third-party legal guarantees, and a dedicated agency insulated from electoral change.
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