Asad Ejaz Butt

Macro-Fiscal Economist | UMass | Policy Adviser | ICF | UNDP | OPM | YorkU and UoGuelph Alum | Author of Pakistan at Seventy (Routledge, 2019)

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An Economist's take on what is holding back Pakistan from making progress https://t.co/2TkNupyxPu #economy #pakistan #budgetforgrowth #budgetday2026

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Giving a talk at Imperial today, home of one of the greatest scientists of our time

Nobel laureate, he helped build “the standard model” in Physics - worked tirelessly to promote science for the least fortunate - setting up ICTP

He lived his name “servant of peace”. Every student should learn about his life.

[Asad Ejaz Butt @AsadAijaz]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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نوکری دوسروں سے ہٹ کر کی جاے تا کہ سسٹم🇵🇰 میں نام ہمشہ زندہ رہے پرانے لوگوں 🇵🇰کی طرع نوکری کرنے سے بہتر گھر میں بیٹھ جاے
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فیڈرل گورنمنٹ🇵🇰 کے اندر کام کرنے والے بہترین افسران 🇵🇰
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Everything is under control 👇🏻

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46 ctp🇵🇰
اپنے کام سے اس سسٹم کے اندر جگہ بناٸی ہے
#ctp46
راو ہاشم عظیم🇵🇰 نے پشاور🇵🇰 کے سارے ڈیٹا کو تینوں رجسٹرز📄 کے ڈیٹا کو میچ اور سکین🔍 کر کے زمینی ریکارڈ آن لاٸن📱 کیا اور ریکارڈ میں ردوبدل کرنے والوں کو معطل❌ کیا
عمر قیوم🇵🇰 کی پلاننگ اینڈ ڈویلپمنٹ🇵🇰 میں خدمات لا جواب

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March 24: Happy Birthday my dear Hassaan Khan

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The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

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Watch the full video to explore the impact of government restructuring on public administration and whether it's driving meaningful change.
@AsadAijaz is joined by @AbihaZahra_ , a Research Fellow at UNIL (CH).

🎥 https://t.co/1RsignXhGE

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“A revolutionary’s (read Pakistani dissident) favorite tyrant is always the one who lives a thousand miles away”

Adapted from George Orwell

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22.8 million children are out of school; and the literacy rate has stagnated at around 60pc. Only Nigeria does worse than Pakistan in getting its children into classrooms.(Asad Ejaz Butt , Daily Dawn 18th Feb 2026)#EducationForAll

[Asad Ejaz Butt @AsadAijaz]

If what you want is a regular 9‑to‑5 that pays for a mansion and a few cars, where “problem solving” really just means maximizing profits for the capitalist you work for — dressed up as “strategy” or whatever glossy title they invent — stay away from a PhD.
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[Asad Ejaz Butt @AsadAijaz]

A PhD, for me, is training to become an academic for life — an intellectual, a thinker, someone who enjoys taking random musings and scattered ideas and shaping them into something structured. Something that feels like a science, that resonates with those who live for ideas.
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I grew up with the idea that we Pashtuns are the most hospitable people, until I met my Sindhi friends. They made me change my thinking as they surpass us in hospitality & friendship. My visits to Karachi used to be a culinary delight with a long list of lunches & dinner appointments. I still get crates of mangoes every year without fail. During training & service, Pashtuns & Sindhis jelled together, sharing many lighter moments full of laughter & fun. It even made me learn a bit of Sindhi. It’s truly one of the sweetest languages.

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The behavioural meaning is that capital is not rejecting Pakistan’s potential, but capital is rejecting the predictability of the operating environment that turns potential into cash flows.

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SBP’s summary shows total foreign investment at US$1.964 billion in FY 2023–24 and US$1.839 billion in FY 2024–25, followed by a sharp drop to US$207.4 million for the first half of the ongoing FY compared with $1.343 billion in the comparable period a year earlier.

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The technical meaning of this collapse is that marginal investors are either deferring decisions, shrinking tickets, or demanding structures that Pakistan’s current governance and macro framework cannot credibly support at scale.

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We are pleased to share that @AsadAijaz's piece was published on @ASPANational PA Times! The article highlights how language shapes opportunity for learners from marginalized communities. Citing an upcoming book by PhD student Nadeem Hussain.

Check it out https://t.co/oeGEYQG6Yo

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BCCI makes you feel what you’re making some marginalized political groups and social entities feel in Pak. You can’t celebrate resistance in one realm and absolutely crush it in another…(n/n)

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#BCCI didn’t become a giant today by challenging the existing order of cricket, structure of the international rules based system of the sport or through outright resistance to an established power, they became strong by….. (1/n)

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Mohsin N, having done well as PCB Chair, seems to be championing a resistance against a hegemon in the ICC arena very similar to one he’s helping crush at home against a political hegemon..(7/n)