Terms of engagement
WHEN a US drone killed Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, Pakistan`s interior minister proclaimed it had killed the chances of negotiating peace with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In fact, Pakistani reactions…
The feel-good factor
What makes countries tick and sustain high growth rates? Conventional wisdom and experience could never have predicted an economy with a heavy footprint of government (China) to grow at double-digit…
The business start-up
The region's most dynamic yet neglected land, Pakistan, has started to pave its way to the world economy by rendering its first major and highly successful business delegation on the…
A new blueprint
It`s going to be a hectic and intense few weeks of European Union-Asia interaction. Top EU officials will hold a record-breaking number of meetings in November with leading policymakers in…
Challenge of imbalances
Inflation is certainly a challenge today but then growth is a bigger challenge. With the latter are associated issues of employment, savings, investment, trade, external capital inflows and the overall…
Medium or message?
It was the late 1980s and the early 1990s. There was a municipal committee-run secondary school in Gujjar Khan, district Rawalpindi, which was seen as the best girls’ school in…
Trade with China
The World Bank, in its recent report 'Pakistan the Transformative Path', has expressed its optimism about the prospect of accelerating the momentum of Pakistan's FTA with China. Therefore, bolstering trade…
Gender and diversity in financial services
There is a raging debate in western corporate circles regarding the percentage of women in leadership positions including corporate boards, parliaments, multilateral and educational institutions. With the arena of the…
Authorised Capital Tax: A tax even on the idea of thinking corporate
The economic barometer of a country can be measured as shooting downwards where instead of promoting and making it easier for corporates to enter the market place and guarantee the…
Urbanisation: the big picture
Anyone wanting to understand urbanisation needs to get past two major misunderstandings. First, urbanisation is not about individual cities — neither solving their problems nor enhancing their potential for growth.…
