IN today’s complex global trade environment, Pakistan finds itself navigating between two competing demands: the Trump administration’s protectionist tariffs and the European Union’s emerging Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). While…
For the last couple of years, the government has been persuading the industry to enhance the country’s exports to $50 billion in the next five years. The industry, however, has…
Rapid technical breakthroughs have astounded the world during the last several decades. It has influenced and left an everlasting mark on anything and anything that humans can quantify. The banking…
In the wake of an apparent economic crisis, caused by multiple reasons, particularly a killing self-inflicted political instability, myopic economic policies of last seven decades, unthoughtful actions and measures taken…
Over the last ten years, only one third of international asset recovery cases have resulted in returns, according to the preliminary results of a recent survey by the Stolen Asset…
Exports have been stagnant over the last decade in Pakistan, while competing economies have witnessed commendable growth rates in exports that have strengthened their economies considerably. Pakistan’s inward-oriented trade policies…
Tax revenues have shown buoyancy in the first half of 2017-18. The overall growth rate in these revenues of the federal and provincial governments combined is 16 percent. During the…
Every year, the finance minister undergoes the hassle of incessantly orating for around two hours when he presents the fiscal policy in parliament. However, the exercise fails to inspire the…
India’s success factors may be many but three salient features need emphasis. First, Indian entrepreneurs are dynamic, vibrant and innovative. They even used the socialist economy regime of control and…
Over decades we have all operated in our different spheres of life – whether as journalists, academics, politicians, campaigners and educators – to ring the alarm about the way planetary…
