🚨 ECONOMIC CRASH: Surviving Pakistan’s $26 Billion Debt Crisis | 402 | TBT

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Ahmed J. Pirzada is the Senior Lecturer and School Resource Director at the University of Bristol.

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00:00 Introduction
00:45 Snapshot of Pakistan's Economic Landscape
01:24 External Debt
02:47 How will it be managed?
05:14 Domestic Debt
05:40 Is Default an Option?
06:44 Debt Rollover Expectations
11:04 Geopolitical Ties
13:00 Restructuring in Terms of Overall Reliability
16:01 Pakistan is not a Low-income Country
16:33 Impact on Debt Restructuring
18:12 Future of Pakistan's Debt: Where is this heading?
22:03 Default vs. Otherwise: Better option?
24:34 IMF Projections
26:13 Focusing on Long-Term Sustainability
30:31 If U.S. debt inflates, will global debt follow?
37:42 Needed Policies
40:10 How to control Inflation?
43:03 Escaping the Debt Spiral
52:06 Risks Involved
53:10 Solutions: What to do?
1:03:04 The Communication Problem
1:11:12 Frameworks Comparison: Unique to Pakistan?
1:19:12 Which framework is better?
1:23:27 Development Pathways: What the book entails?
1:24:37 Inevitability of Change
1:38:57 Ending Note