Establishing trust in ICT’s
The world has moved from stand alone desktop computers to interconnected, decentralised global networks. The phenomenal growth of the internet and the advent of...
Non traditional avenues of revenue
With our traditional revenue generators – tax receipts and export earnings – failing to provide the economy with the necessary fiscal space to snap...
The marketplace conundrum
Less than a hundred years after the great depression, the theory of capitalism is again under threat from players that are not displaying the...
License to kill
Mayhem, haywire, insane are some of the adjectives commonly being used to describe what is happening in the south and north of the country....
Taxation of regression
In traditional development theory, it is said that a government will only feel responsible towards its citizens, if it can be held accountable before...
King of the Apple empire – Steve Jobs
As news of the resignation of the Steve Jobs spread like wildfire on Wednesday night, millions of people across the globe took out their...
Fallacies of consumer economics
Consumer spending is not just a vital part of a country’s GDP but also signifies the ability of people with disposable incomes to purchase...
Status quo in social analysis
Social reality can be impoverished or enriched by the ways we use to reflect on it. Social analysis is a classic way of reflecting...
Murabaha consumer financing
Murabaha is the most commonly used mode of financing in Islamic banking and finance. Murabaha is derived from the Arabic word “ribh” which means...
Economic insecurities of globalisation
The Clinton administration, like most administrations in the United States, was given the all important task of economic recovery. Reducing the deficit seemed to...
The age-old conundrum
Murder and mayhem at Karachi continues unabated. And if it is not a slew of random killings of mostly the innocent, it is the...
Fortunes of Pakistan’s IT industry
Another global economic meltdown, in line with the U.S. dotcom bubble burst in 2000 and the global financial crisis that broke out in 2008,...
Search marketing
The internet has become fundamental to the economy. Billions of people worldwide use it. Over time, it has grown from an experimental research network...
Case for agriculture sector diversification
Agriculture in the country stands at a crossroads. Farmers’ incomes are falling. Holdings are progressively getting smaller. Intensive agriculture is degrading natural resources. The...
Thinking for Pakistan
Two men travelling in a hot-air balloon got adrift and were unaware of their precise location on the map. As they passed a small...
The dethronement of human arrogance
The biggest folly of man is that he deems himself infallible. We tend to have pride in our creations, in our theories, in our...
The natural gas conundrum
With winter just two months away, while the common man heaves a sigh of relief from inflated electricity bills and unending load-shedding, just around...
