E-commerce on a global scale
E-commerce is global in nature. Connected users from all over the world will resort to online shopping if businesses can offer safe, user-friendly online...
Revisiting free-market fundamentalism
Near death experiences compel us to re-evaluate our priorities in life. The global economic recession was one such scenario where economists were forced to...
Taming the chaos
There is definitely a silver lining to the cloud. The turmoil in the indigenous economy is dually reflected by the turmoil in the international...
Retrieving Europe’s dead
When the case of Europe is scrutinised there is both good news and bad news. The good news that one can understand for Europe...
Have a blast till you last!
Even the most patriotic amongst us, especially those who have never been shipped across the border, would in the heart of hearts admit that...
Retail Term Finance Certificates in vogue?
As much as the recent announcement of a retail TFC offering coming to the market is heartening for investors, it is that much of...
Derailing the distressed
With the bigwigs opting for flights, big wheel bus services or their own posh vehicles as their preferred mode of transport, the attrition of...
Banking sector reforms
Pakistan’s banking sector has come a long way since the reforms of ’97, with more than 80 per cent now consolidated in private hands....
Linking real world online
Hyperlinks are the strength of the internet, the primary building block of the web that ties reference points to useful content. Without these semantic...
Islamic Foundations: a new financial model
Many keen observers of Islamic banking & finance are not satisfied with the current “banking” based model of Islamic financial intermediation and hence suggest...
Waiting out the interim
With only four sessions between the last piece and this one, evenly split between the ongoing and the last week, the market sentiment mostly...
Pakistan’s path of denial
Pakistan’s future seems uncertain, especially in these volatile times when the threat of an economic wipeout is looming on the horizon. The most worrying...
The lives of others
At the heart of any development strategy of governments or institutions like the World Bank is the reduction in levels of poverty. But underlying...
Can we afford $35b for a holiday?
Government has committed an economic suicide. The recent decision of the government to take Saturday off is ill-conceived and preposterous. The economic managers and...
Theory of change
Occupy Wall Street, Champs-Elysées, Charing Cross, Bank Square or whatever, the phenomenon has spread to more than nine hundred cities across the world. Beginning...
Making elephants dance
Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in his address to Rawalpindi chamber of commerce stated that the government intends to solve the management issues of...
Reining the twin deficits
The intricately embellished couch adorned with invaluable gems has begun to show signs of age. And those who had seated themselves, quite comfortably, on...
