Persistent decline of manufacturing sector
The latest monthly data for February 2024 on the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) has been released recently by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. There has been a decline of…
Manufacturing a policy
The eagerness of the US to start, provoke or engage in wars is well known but what is not commonly known or understood are the reasons. The Russian aggression in…
China: a strong manufacturing and cyberspace country
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), major achievements have been made in the development of China’s industrialization and IT application, the advancement of new…
Why manufacturing sector marred by low productivity?
Manufacturing is the main contributor in the industrial sector in Pakistan. It has a 14% share in GDP and provides employment to around 9.9 million of the country’s workforce. However,…
Manufacturing Modi’s popularity
REVELATIONS of a secret app apparently used by Hindutva affiliates to inflate the BJP’s popularity or to intimidate political opponents reinforces the belief many hold that it is bluster more…
A conducive ‘terf’ for manufacturing
Pakistan is prematurely transitioning from agriculture to services economy by skipping a strong manufacturing base. With world’s fifth-largest population, such model is simply not sustainable. Government policies, especially, in the…
Manufacturing: Greater competition key to export competiveness
'Naya' can't do without 'purana'. At least that's what comes out of the new Cabinet. Good people all, let's root for the many who served Musharraf, some who belonged to…
Problem is not FTAs but structural fragility: Manufacturing sector
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are the favourite whipping boys of our industry leaders. The constant refrain has been that FTAs are 'damaging' the manufacturing sector. They want existing ones to…
Problem is not FTAs but structural fragility: Manufacturing sector
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are the favourite whipping boys of our industry leaders. The constant refrain has been that FTAs are 'damaging' the manufacturing sector. They want existing ones to…
Iraq’s Mosul strains to revive manufacturing past
Its wool could once be found in French marketplaces and its cement as far away as Singapore. But after years of fighting, Iraq’s Mosul has yet to regain its former…
