What if the right was right?
As election results started trickling on the evening of May 11, a shift to the right was discernible. By next morning, the centre-left parties had suffered a massive defeat with…
As election results started trickling on the evening of May 11, a shift to the right was discernible. By next morning, the centre-left parties had suffered a massive defeat with…
The temperature of the politics of power sector in this country has been raised as the government upped the price of electricity for all consumers - industrial, commercial as well…
Having entered its sixth month in office, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government has to deal decisively with a number of urgent economic challenges even as it has taken the necessary…
Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally - either directly or through elected representatives - in the proposal, development and creation of laws. It…
When selecting policy instruments and the timing of interventions, a key question that bedevils decision-makers in the country is how to facilitate growth and contain inflation simultaneously. It has been…
Thirty years ago New Zealand had a prime minister called David Lange who was witty and sometimes caustic. Speaking at the dinner he hosted for retiring US ambassador H Monroe…
It is an accepted fact now that the National Energy Policy 2013-2018 is merely a policy statement. Or, at best, it is the policy strategy, as declared in the document…
There appears to be some misperceptions about the recent tariff rationalisation in electricity and increase in the prices of furnace oil. Most of the newspapers and media outlets are depicting…
The fate of a landmark US requirement to blend increasing amounts of biofuels into the nation's gasoline pool rests on the meaning of three words tucked into a mammoth law:…
It’s a good thing that the government has been forced to change its stance on the recent power tariff increases. The constant hikes in tariffs with no meaningful reforms have…