Japanese divided over ‘Abenomics’ despite global acclaim
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned from the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland a happy man, saying the leaders of the world's biggest economies had endorsed his own economic programme.…
A bad start
It may seem too early a verdict on the PML-N government which is only a couple of weeks old, but if the budget is anything to go by, the signs…
Budget and economic management
Management of an economy is the most arduous assignment for the governments owing to the socio-economic complexities and the linkages of the economy with the outside world. Monetary and fiscal…
Budget 2013-14: Concluding Speech
Alongside is the text of concluding speech delivered by Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Federal Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation, in the National Assembly on 22nd June…
Who shapes health policies?
In a country where policies are formulated in an ad hoc fashion and are designed to promote the interests of a vested class rather than of the people as a…
More of the same?
As one may recall, while the budget for the Financial Year 2011-12 was being presented in the National Assembly, the opposition members from the PML-N had presented the finance minister…
Drugs and money
Successive governments in Pakistan provided money laundering schemes to the black economy, including proceeds from the drug trade in the name of ‘good economic measures’ (sic) to ‘boost industrial progress’.…
IT in banking – challenges
One of the biggest challenges faced by the Information Technology (IT) Industry in developing banking software was to design a universal system that provided a user-friendly solution to the banking…
Gettysburg battle held US together 150 years ago
The rolling green hills of southern Pennsylvania look much the same as they did a century and a half ago. When the early morning fog rolls across the historic battlefield…
Infrastructure development: Challenges and prospects
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…
