A call for change and development
Reform, not begging, is the answer to all our economic and political problems. The question though is: which reform? The answers to this were discussed at a recent conference held…
Reform, not begging, is the answer to all our economic and political problems. The question though is: which reform? The answers to this were discussed at a recent conference held…
Software development and IT-enabled services (ITeS) for data centres, technical service/call centres, and telecom services make up the majority of the Pakistani ICT industry. After India, Bangladesh, and the US,…
Change is taking place slowly and subtly. Recent Cabinet Committee on Economic Reforms’ (CCER’s) deliberations on Sept 25, 2023 highlight increasing interdependency, thereby necessitating a Planning Commission on the lines…
All stakeholders agree that Pakistan is currently facing the greatest generational crisis in its history. What started as a political crisis has now metastasized into economic default egged on by…
Widely blamed for ravaging Earth’s ecosystems, big businesses are nevertheless being turned to as key players in a deal to save nature at the COP15 biodiversity conference. With hundreds of…
The World Bank’s Doing Business Report (2019) ranked Pakistan at 156 out of 190 economies on the ‘enforcing contracts’ indicator, based on the cost and quality of judicial processes, and…
Riphah International University has organized its 5th International Conference on Islamic Business with the theme "Moving to social, ethical and responsible finance by the Islamic banking and finance institutions (IBFIs)".…
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi seems to have fully recognised the criticality of 'ease of doing business' in order to attract investments and enhance exports. Recognising the slide in country's…
The world's top economies have ramped up spending on the fight to eradicate modern-day slavery, according to new United Nations figures, but campaigners said businesses needed to play a greater…
The US Army plans to fund construction of rare earths processing facilities, part of an urgent push by Washington to secure domestic supply of the minerals used to make military…