Dissecting economic paradigms
With the global economic recession taking a toll on developed countries there is a growing sense of uncertainty that is gripping the majority in...
Drafting our own misfortune
Post 2007 period for Pakistan’s economy has been quite tough. Until 2011, the cost of the War on Terror on our indigenous economy has...
Europe and the bitter Beijing pill
Legend has it that the pied piper of Hamelin was hired by a town to purge their locality from rat infestation in 1284. The...
Social media for business
Social media has come of age overtime and now it provides a powerful means to reach out and engage with online population in an...
Devil wears Prada
‘Pakistan is on the verge of an economic crisis and collapse’, read the headlines of newspapers, nationally as well as internationally. While skimming through...
Scenario of inter regional collaboration
For peace to ultimately prevail in Afghanistan so that economic development can happen is an issue and task to deal with by the people...
Leveraging indigenous economic potential
According to the State bank of Pakistan, SME refers to an entity, ideally not a public limited company, which does not employ more than...
Rise of NPLs
What I find astonishing is the surprise itself caused by news flows regarding the ‘alarming’ rise in NPLs. People seemed astounded by the fact...
America should turn to Reaganomics again
The financial bazooka has created havoc for the US economy. Confidence is lacking in the US economy which is the main driver. There is...
The case of exploding railways
We Pakistanis are a funny little nation. While the entire world blows their trivial problems out of proportion, we have been accustomed to burying...
Negligence in the agri-sector
It is ironic that the agriculture sector – the economy’s backbone and the largest national employer – continues to receive unplanned and ad hoc...
Road to Islamic banking
With the success of almost full and successful conversion of National Commercial Bank (NCB) of Saudi Arabia, and relatively smaller but equally successful conversions...
Useless work
A global downturn, when a large number of people are either unemployed or fear losing their job, is not the best time to talk...
All quiet on the KSE front
Apart from a minor dip or some rise here or there, the country’s leading benchmark, the KSE-100, this past week mainly remained consistent, trading...
Crisis of governance
There is no denying the fact that we are confronted with an uproar in the public sphere about putting the economy on track. The...
Sugar industry misfortunes
There is a reason Pakistan’s sugar industry is constantly riddled with crises. Startling as it may seem, ours is still an industry where price...
Debt, Berlusconi and pepperoni
Any ardent follower of the Italian cuisine would let you know whether the topping atop any given pizza has deserved its right to be...
