Publications

International Conferences
• Masood, S. M. U., Özcan, R., & Khan, A. U. I. (2022). Can Loans Affect the Social Fabric of a Community? Preliminary Findings on The Effect of Loans on Social Psychology. International VI. Civil Strategy Symposium, Marmara Üniversity, Istanbul.
  

International Journals
• Masood, S. M. U., Özcan, R., & Khan, A. U. I. (2023). Till debt does us apart: Cross-country evidence on the relationship between microfinance prevalence and social distrust. PLOS One, 18(3), e0282072.
  

Newspaper Articles
• Masood, U. (2024, December 5). Economics Nobel for Dummies. The Nation.
  


• Masood, U. (2023, February 20). Of Master Dar’s magic and Khan’s jinx. The Nation.
  


• Masood, U. (2024, July 2). Elusive IMF-led prosperity. The Nation.
  


• Masood, U. (2023, August 20). Economic recovery is essentially a political question. Pakistan Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2021, December 25). A Dismal Economist, Please! Dawn.
  


• Masood, U. (2021, August 11). Canal Istanbul: 45km waterway to travel back in time & liberate the straits. Daily Sabah.
  

Other Publications
• Masood, U. (2021, May 30). Coffee Extinction Is Nature’s Way of Telling Us: “Heal the World!” Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2021, May 3). Of Coffee, Conspiracies, and the Sufis. TRT World Digital.
  


• Masood, U. (2020, December 19). What Drives Pakistan on the Recognition of Israel: The Arab Gulf, India, or the Pakistanis? Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2020). Lives amidst War in the Holy Land: The Perspective from an American SUV. Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2021, September 2021). Mass Shootings in America Are Now Programmed into the System. Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2023, May 31). Artificial Intelligences Sentience: Why Is It a Big Deal? Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2022, October 25). Raising the Minimum Wage Is a Slippery Slope. Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2022, October 19). Poor Countries Should Not Have to Bear the Brunt of Extravagant Wars. Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2022, August 26). IMF and the World Bank must help countries on the brink. Anadolu Agency.
  


• Masood, U. (2022, August 5). Are you as rich as you were before inflation? Some perspective… Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2022, July 7). Leaders be warned: inflation is a storm brewing! Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2022, June 6). What’s behind the global inflation, and where are we headed. Politics Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2015, December 30). What happens when NGOs are not free from political influence? The Express Tribune blogs.
  


• Masood, U. (2014, May 14). Agriculture is our golden goose; don’t kill her my dear Industrialists! The Express Tribune blogs.
  


• Masood, U. (2014, June 17). Metronomics in Lahore. The Express Tribune blogs.
  

Select Publication
• Masood, U. (2019, October 4). Summits are insufficient in fight against climate change. Daily Sabah.
  


• Masood, U. (2019, September 26). Strike while the irons hot. Pakistan Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2019, August 15). Wasting a rare opportunity. Pakistan Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2019, July 30). The last IMF-programme. Or is it? Pakistan Today.
  


• Masood, U. (2019, January 3). Why rupee fell? The Nation. -
  


• Masood, U. (2021, April 27). Ad-hoc Policymaking. Dawn.
  


• Masood, U. (2019, October 21). Why the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics matters. Daily Sabah.
  


• Masood, U. (2021, May 17). Policy rate primer. Dawn.