Quality, sustainable and climate resilient infrastructure is a pre-requisite for accelerating and ensuring stability and equity of economic growth and social development. Over the years, infrastructure gap in Pakistan has…
The role of infrastructure impacting economic growth and welfare has been studied across literature intensely during the past three decades. The post-World War II, reconstruction gave us a model where…
The economy of Pakistan is presently fluctuating between 3.5 to 3.7 percent, although the country remained successful in maintaining an average GDP growth of 5 percent (1972-2013). This is by…
We, Pakistanis are in the habit of grumbling, getting anxious and angry, verbally condemning everyone but ourselves for everything which goes wrong or which is not to our liking. However,…
A question had been raised about the legal status of Sindh Development and Maintenance of Infrastructure (SDMI) that whether or not SDMI is a validly imposed tax. The SDMI cess…
Recent global experience shows that minerals have driven high economic growth in many low and middle-income countries. With the right approach, they can be equally useful in Pakistan, to drive…
RECENTLY, the Chinese and Pakistani prime ministers inaugurated the Gwadar International Airport — virtually from Islamabad. From a development perspective, the airport is a useful addition and set to enhance…
LAHORE has traffic jams and traffic congestion in the morning and afternoon; not when offices/businesses open and close, but when school sessions begin and end. Roads are chock-a-block with cars,…
NATURAL gas has played a major role in Pakistan’s energy matrix since the first large reserve was discovered in Sui, Balochistan, in 1952. Significant gas fields of smaller sizes were…
WHAT stops Pakistan from becoming a developed country? Why is Pakistan not emerging from poverty? How will Pakistan embark on the track to success? What is the reason behind Balochistan’s…
