Senegal’s corner shops go digital to track trade
Corner shops, markets and street traders are still the traditional way most Senegalese do their shopping, but micro-businesses are turning to digital means of tracking clients in the west African…
As Senegal’s coast crumbles, residents ponder move to safer ground
Cheikh Badiane, a weathered fisherman, looks out to sea from the edge of his neighbourhood in the north Senegalese city of Saint-Louis. Behind him is a densely populated fishing quarter,…
Why we must join the Hague Group
“For a colonised people the most essential value…is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity”.–Frantz Fanon, ‘The Wretched of the Earth’…
The power of puppetry
Death on the high seas or on the streets of Karachi continues unabated and without any serious attempt by any quarter to put the brakes on these happenings. According to…
Tax culture
Tax-to-GDP ratio in Pakistan is singled out as the principal devil in the fiscal regime of Pakistan and termed as unsustainable. IMF, time and again, highlights it as such and…
Europe’s new migrant hotspot races to cope with surging deaths
Two years ago forensic pathologist Modesto Martinez, 68, moved to the tiny Canary Island of El Hierro with an eye to retiring. Instead, he’s been called out day and night…
Reparations
ONLY mankind is brutal to its own species. A passage from Mani Shankar Aiyar’s latest book A Maverick in Politics (2024) scrapes the scab of memory, reminding one of the…
Dollar bullets
Trump is halting bloody bullet wars, only to ignite bloody trade wars. Meanwhile, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States…
Reversing the business strategy
There is reverse production. There is reverse marketing. There is reverse pricing. These are all functional decisions. They are based on adjusting to the market conditions. They are based on…
For a net-zero future
ENERGY has become a critical national security issue for Pakistan. The present policy prescriptions have brought us to a dead-end street. It has not only become hard for us to…
