Tag: Growth

The government on Thursday claimed that due to better crop position and positive growth in LSM sector, the growth target could end up close...

This is with regards to the article, ‘In search of business confidence’, published on 07/01/12. Having well agreed with the article, I still feel...

I am writing only to clarify economic reforms and their role in our society. I have no issue with any other agenda in the...

Many would say that working for long hours results in better output, and that it can utilise human resources in a more useful manner....

Given the multiple crises in the West, daunting challenge of poverty at home, and the emerging needs to look towards East, paradigms of sustainable...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has cautioned that banks’ source of profits were shifting away from interest income through advances to investment in the...

Looking past the gloom and doom We appear to have reached a point where only tales of disasters, negatives and bad news are of interest....

What Pakistan needs is growth that is job oriented - The economy expanded remarkably during 2001-07. The government in power back then, claimed several...

I agree with Mr Tarin, but not totally. Yes, there is a need of will to do the things with honesty, but the most...

Mr Tarin has outlined an extremely pressing issue. Over the years, disparities between the rich and the poor have sharply increased, with the rich...

There are instructive elements in the so called anti capitalism movements across the west. They reflect public anger over the increasing rich-poor disparity that...

The article no doubt proposes an enlightening suggestion; now the world needs Islamic economic system and not just banking system. But by resorting to...

Bio-gas, no doubt, is an answer to the energy crises if implemented in right earnest. It is sad to say that many such projects...

Even if the senate standing committee on finance hasn’t exactly figured out which particular economic system it wants for the country, it is no...

The financial bazooka has created havoc for the US economy. Confidence is lacking in the US economy which is the main driver. There is...

We Pakistanis are a funny little nation. While the entire world blows their trivial problems out of proportion, we have been accustomed to burying...

Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh has said that provincial government is actively pursuing the sustainable and consistent growth of agriculture sector and...