Status Quo Ahead
The government has made a comeback for all those who were wondering what banks’ next avenue of choice would be. With a complete and...
Capital controls
Currency war, capital controls, regional trade and protectionist policies would be the hot topics in the years to come. Countries are worried about their...
The economic crystal ball
Predicting the economic ramifications in the current year, and the rationale behind the forecast ...
The alarm bells of China
Recent growth in China has relied mostly on the surging real estate prices ...
Two pronged European predicament
The European debt crisis has donned the garb of that vicious circle that continues to tantalise and torment the thinking heads around the globe,...
Marketing waste
My mentor and good friend, Nadeem Chawhan an organisational story teller, once said, “If you’re smart and know how to market a product, you...
Research before taking the plunge
Flat after the bloodbath over four sessions that brought the KSE-100 benchmark below the psychological 11,000 points, was the good news Wednesday. Though around...
An opportunistic axis
The vanguards of democracy in the Asia-Pacific region, the United States, India and Japan have come together for a trilateral strategic consultation and have...
Copper politics and state of economy
No doubt, investment is of an utmost significance in the socio-economic advancement of a country. In circumstances the arrival of a foreign investor for...
Penetrating new IT domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is about to expand general Top Level Domaown names (gTLDs). During the first round, ICANN...
Can SBP arrest the rupee fall?
For a poor country like Pakistan, which largely depends on imports, the fall of the rupee against the dollar produces multiplier effects in the...
The road to redemption
NHA (National Highway Authority) isn’t exactly known for its imaginative spark or the use of their neurons of ingenuity. However, if NHA were to...
Finance lesson for Asia
There are important lessons for Asia in the financial catastrophe unfolding in Europe. The more the continent’s leaders run from pillar to post to...
Evaluating dependency on the US
The extrapolation of the neo-colonial discourse onto the Pakistani geo-political context provides the most commonplace and plausible explanation; the United States exercises control over...
In search of business confidence
Indicators such as the Business Confidence Index are useful measures to assess the efficacy of policy decisions
I have a personal confession: working in a...
Pakistan can get out of power crisis
We have resources to overcome power shortage
The power crisis is not local problem rather it is being faced by the whole region of South...
Agri collapse in ’12
With 2011 rightly dubbed a black year for agriculture, the outlook is not much rosier in the new year for the economy’s largest employer....
