A blow to the solar plexus
For an Average Joe Investor, this past week must have been one forgettable traumatic experience. Seeing the value of the stock you own plunge...
Shari’a and Bonds
When Investment Dar, a Kuwaiti investment company, bought a 51 per cent stake in the maker of James Bond’s favourite car – Aston Martin...
Collaborative consumption phenomenon
The concept of sharing economy is as old as society itself. Economic models based on barter, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping (commonly called...
Will tweaking the interest rate help?
The world is evolving at a rapid pace and so is its economics. We live in a world today in which the cost of...
The Sub-continent and its discontent
In a recent report by the Asian Development Bank, the fact is acknowledged that just about two centuries ago economic activity and output was...
Derailed
Any organisation with its name beginning with Pakistan screams of danger, disturbance and deterioration. That is really sad but really true. These days the...
What they make for a living
It has become a convenient norm to state per capita income as a measure of general well being in an economy, albeit with some...
Manufacturing educated vegetables
We don’t need no education,
we don’t need no thought control,
no dark sarcasm in the classroom,
teachers leave them kids alone
Roger Waters wrote...
The strange world of a priori economics
A strange species of economic analysis pervades contemporary mainstream economic thinking. I also posit that this mode happens to be the globally dominant economic...
Implicit and explicit memory
Many consider memory and the process by which it is stored to be a fluid one. Exposed to countless stimuli, almost every second the...
Low interest rates: catalyst for expansion
Pakistan's economy is currently facing three broad challenges in the shape of persistent inflation, eclipsed private investment leading to low growth and continuously rocketing...
Public borrowing and shari’a guidelines
Islam, being a comprehensive religion, should offer guidelines to Muslims (individuals, families, businesses, governments and other social, political or economic units) in all aspects...
A little hesitation is a dangerous thing
After a pretty upbeat start Monday, so obviously on the back of the State Bank’s quite unexpected cut in interest rate, the market went...
The real cost of violence
The 2008 Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, endorsed by more than 90 states, argues that “living free from the threat of armed...
Tapping the entrepreneurial spirit
Last week, I attended the Junior World Entrepreneurial Forum Pakistan Conference 2011 jointly hosted by World Entrepreneurship Forum, France and Lahore School of Economics,...
Pakistan’s education dilemma
Gilbert Keith Chesterton once described education as the soul of a society as it passed from one generation to the next. Unfortunately, this means...
The Greek bailout
The world economic crisis is jumping from one point to another but there are few signs of it abating. The Greek crisis remained the...
