Enhancing bilateral trade with India
It is heartening to read that an entourage of 80 Businessmen visited India to boost our formal trade. Indians played good hosts to the...
Who wrote the monetary policy?
It seems like the monetary policy department outsourced the policy decision to some one who should be renamed a hundred and fifty basis points...
Consumerism good or bad?
A certain viewpoint pervades which propagates that an economy can grow out of its quagmire by promoting consumerism. Our immediate neighbour, India, and many...
The legacy of Steve Jobs
The man who changed how the world lived, dreamed, connected and entertained is no more. Steve Jobs was a business superhero. He was the...
Will the cut do the trick?
In the backdrop of floods, power crisis and falling foreign direct investment by 40 per cent in the first two months of the current...
Analysing frontiers of growth
GDP discrepancies across the world, especially in the post economic meltdown period, sum up the changing growth paradigms across regions and economies. A growing...
First step in a continuing journey
The SBP surprised all by cutting the discount rate by 150bps in the recently announced Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) on October 8, 2011. Contrary...
Changing growth paradigms
Countries and regions that make optimal use of scarce resources have demonstrated sustained growth for their economies over the years. Evolving policies that are...
Revisiting the energy mix
Considering Pakistan’s unprecedented energy crisis, and imminent gas shortage as winter draws near, the government is advised to seriously reconsider the energy sector’s structure...
Shari’a and transactional justice
While every conscious Muslim is aware of shari’a requirements for weighing, measuring and counting in commerce and trade, not everyone is cognizant of the...
An answer to the energy crisis
Pakistan is presently passing through an unprecedented energy crisis. The demand exceeds supply and hence load-shedding is a common phenomenon through frequent power shutdowns....
Sustained market enthusiasm
Barring an exceptional odd session or two, the volumes these last few days have been good – an indicator that investors are keenly interested....
Our economic challenges
The business cycle of Pakistan’s economy has shown anomalous behaviour over the last many years. The growth rate peaked at nine per cent in...
Supermarkets of the digital era
The internet hosts a vast array of web shops, from single to multi-product sites, from offering specialised services to entertaining scores of different businesses....
Development before departure
It is no hidden fact that a number of reasons need to be taken into account while analysing the growing problems in Pakistan. The...
Transacting a war economy
Soon after independence this young nation had to face immense problems. In the realm of political economy and in putting a constitutional system in...
Marketing disasters
A look at any newspapers will give you this reading. The top half full of screaming headlines of flood, bombs and dengue and the...
