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    The root cause of Pakistan’s crisis: Macroeconomics or geopolitics?

    While the mainstream framing of Pakistan’s crisis is a lack of fiscal prudence, what the country really suffers from is a resource curse, not in energy or minerals, but from its position in geopolitics

    Sashi Sivramkrishna
    February 10, 2023 / 08:27 IST
    Pakistan’s geopolitical resource curse when combined with chronic misgovernance has also caused stagnation of economic complexity. (File image)
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