The workers’ future
Workers and trade unions celebrate May Day every year to pay homage to Chicago’s workers for scarifying their lives to have the right of an 8-hour working day and better…
Protecting animals
Highly pathogenic avian influenza is a recurring phenomenon in the poultry and egg industries. The current outbreak in the US, which began in February, has antecedents in 2015, 2006, and…
Fair wages
Business chieftains wail that, with the economy reopening, they’ve been advertising thousands of jobs for waiters, nursing assistants, poultry workers and such, but they can’t get enough takers. So, Congress…
Feeding Gaza: Traders run gauntlet of bullets, bombs and bribes
Mohammed describes a delivery job from hell. “I get screwed on every shipment,” the Gazan trader told Reuters. He said he has to fork out more than $14,000 for each…
Tax expenditure as subsidy to elites: myth or reality?
In the last ten or so years, economic issues and tax collection by FBR has been brought increasingly under focus. Matters that were previously discussed in economic and policy circles…
FY23: Uncovering drivers of economic performance
The National Account numbers for FY2023 have been published and, unfortunately, they paint a truly dismal picture of economic performance. Under the PDM (Pakistan Democratic Movement) government, economic activity has…
The success mix
THE year is 1990, 65 per cent of the population in this country cannot read, 86pc has no access to electricity, and the average number of children per woman is…
A great social and political upheaval is coming?
There are two extremely discomforting economic phenomena unfolding simultaneously in Pakistan – one is dangerously high food inflation, and the other is rising unemployment. The term economists use for such…
Struggles of the worker
Millions of workers in the US and around the world are being pushed to the brink by the staggering impact of rising prices for essential goods and services. “We can’t…
Narrative on inflation
Conventional reporting on the current inflation mostly blames the pandemic, both the 2021 stimulus package and barely explained supply chain issues. Plus, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led to…
