Even before the new government assumes office, a great deal is already being said on bilateral relations going forward between Pakistan and India, and how normalising relations and liberalising trade ...
The elections have successfully taken place, the euphoria will soon be over and before the new government realizes it will be time to start delivering on its election time economic manifesto. Budget ...
Elections are around the corner and the Pakistani public is desperately hoping that the next government will somehow improve both, its standard of living and the environment it lives in - a ...
The environmental scientists seem to have gone back in time in a way that they have rekindled a discussion, till recently considered as closed and shut, on how to measure and interpret ...
Economy, perhaps the main challenge being faced by Pakistan, continues to be managed without a Finance Minister. In fact, I was a bit amazed by the recent advice given to the Caretaker Prime Minister ...
In this new era of economic trade-offs or ‘imperfect solutions’ (as some economists are calling it), the policy choice on which way to tilt, or to opt for a combination of policy choices ...
Last week, I was passed over yet another (fourth so far) ‘Political Party Economic Manifesto’; this time of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), or the PML-N, titled “National Agenda for ...
As Pakistan moves forward to further liberalise trade with India (a positive move), one comes across this quiet kind of confidence in the Pakistani textile sector about its ability to compete ...
“You need to pay for every word you speak.” – A Chinese saying attributed to Confucius.And it was time to pay for ours! All the drawing room talk and social sermonising on how we ...
There is much talk about making capitalism more ‘moral’, ‘fair’ or ‘responsible’. But restraining the power of value extraction requires a theory of value - an ...
Following the sustained slowdown in the global economy since the financial crisis of 2007-08, growth has fallen across the board, including in China, India and, of course, at home in Pakistan. It was ...
Pakistan has now nearly had a haul of half decade with a GDP growth rate of below 5 percent. During the year ended June 30, 2012, Pakistan grew less than 4 percent and now in the second half of this ...
While the slowdown of capital inflows, especially foreign direct investment (FDI), into Pakistan’s economy has triggered serious concerns of late, there is, on the other hand, another inflow ...
With the global economy still not quite back on the recovery track and the rather dodgy (on-again - off-again) US economic recovery data coming out over the last three quarters, the once-in-a-decade ...
A 2012 study of 22 nations by Prof Miles Corak for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has found income heritability (likelihood of success being inherited rather than ...
The questions may be deceptively simple. You may be asked to feed in a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on the computer question like: do you enjoy going to parties? How many numbers can you ...
I am returning to Mumbai after a gap of nearly two decades and as I make my way in a government monitored pre-paid taxi (a no-nonsense commuting facility both for locals and foreigners and a service ...
Amidst a growing trend of currency swaps between countries and especially amongst large trading partners, the rise of renminbi as an international currency is looked up with an almost breathless ...
Some optimistically view the BRICS as an opportunity to resurrect the present mode of globalisation with minor tactical reforms. However, for the BRICS to be an agent of change, it is imperative that ...
Both the enormous challenges facing Pakistan’s economy and our rather dismal economic governance over the last four and half years are redefining the relationship between national institutions ...
The shrine of the revered saint, Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh, may now be located in one of the busiest part of Lahore, but it is still a holy shrine providing (on a 24/7 basis) food, shelter, ...
The European and the US financial crisis and the subsequent debt crisis, have had a huge impact on the world economy and the financial markets. Being an important part of the overall global economy, ...
Brazil and Pakistan share quite a few commonalities. Both have large populations; Brazil being sixth and Pakistan seventh largest country in terms of population. Given active recent efforts on the ...
Last week, we discussed how Pakistan has important lessons to learn from the examples of Brazil, India, Vietnam, China, and other economic successes within the last two decades; and why our best ...
As elections approach and mainstream political parties put forward their recipes to resurrect a struggling Pakistani economy, it is important for the academics and the people to be asking them some ...
Public Sector Enterprises (PSE) are a serious concern in Pakistan, as the national exchequer has to provide Pak Rs 245 to 300 billion (the real figure is still anyone’s guess) every year to ...
With Pakistani exports already hitting a negative trend, it is very important for the economic managers to start focusing and strategising now on the new trade ties that will be evolving within our ...
The Pakistani business environment seems to be going through a kind of paralysis, which is not just making the investors (both domestic and foreign) shy away, but more dangerously, it is emanating ...
Rightly or wrongly, we in Pakistan believe that economic successes and failures at all levels of the economy, public sector, private sector, large corporate business, small and medium-size ...
In 2011-12, a broad consensus on Pakistan’s growth prospects broke down. The latest economic survey once again expects the Pakistani growth to be much less than its regional neighbours, that ...
Thursday, 23 May, 2013
May 18, 2013PML-N warns PM Khoso crossing limits
May 19, 2013, 7:37 pmAltaf Hussain slams PTI leader's murder
May 20, 2013, 12:14 pmPTI will hold protest demo in Karachi on Monday: Imran
May 17, 2013Recount strips Ch Nisar of PP-7 victory
May 17, 2013Hizbul commander warns Nawaz Sharif over India
May 19, 2013Mush should ‘fly out’ of Pakistan
