OICCI’s survey
The Overseas Investors Chambers of Commerce & Industry (OICCI) has rolled out key findings of its recently released ‘Perception and Investment Survey – 2019’. The following are key punch lines…
Let’s protect our mangroves
Rapid and reckless urbanization around Karachi, alongside industrial developments, led to a significant loss of mangrove habitat. Pollution caused by untreated industrial effluents, deforestation, and land reclamation for housing development…
Less than modest economic recovery?
International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme under the Extended Fund Facility rolled out this September has spurred some elements of country’s fiscal and economic recovery. A number of survey reports on…
Private sector engagement
PAKISTAN’S battle against climate change cannot be fought without support from the private sector. The private sector and the government in Pakistan have dramatically different ways of working. Yet, they,…
Export industry: challenges and solutions
It is heartening to note that a multinational company operating in Pakistan has successfully showcased and set an example that the challenges faced by the export industry in the country…
Home-grown economic plans
THE government recently formed a committee of eminent international and Pakistani economists to draft a home-grown economic programme. This article shows that there is little need for such a committee. There is…
FDI and its drivers: a perspective
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is all about country perception and country perception is all about political and economic stability of the country. While economic instability could be condoned in expectations…
IPPs: one of the most difficult conundrums
For decades the public at large has been agitating in futility against electricity tariff hikes and power cuts. This summer, bitten by IMF’s withdrawal of multiple concessions to the industry,…
Finally, the salaried class has spoken
In the first of its kind, the salaried segment of the Pakistani society has decided to go public with their grievances. A group of professionals, which has identified itself as the ‘Salaried…
Energy challenges
We no longer have the luxury to exist in an isolated ecosystem where we can pre-determine the effect of international events on our policies and strategies. It has, instead become…
