NIT Pakistan Gateway Index: a performance analysis
Stock market indices are a popular yardstick for the performance of any stock market around the world. Key benchmark indices not only provide vital information about the quality, depth and…
Analysis: Unsustainable, non-inclusive growth
The consumption-led growth is the highlight of the year. On expenditure-basis, consumption has grown in 2017 by 7.9 percent. By adding 1.3 percent investment growth, the aggregate demand increase reached…
Nepra’s ‘State of Industry Report’: An analysis—I
Nepra (National Electric Power Regulatory Authority) has released its annual State of Industry Report-21 (SOI-21). This publication is an authentic source of data and information and a must read for…
Trade deficit – an equitable analysis
Trade deficit is good if it generates the required value addition within an economy, and results in a good exploitation of trade through productive investments that enhance the industrial sector's…
High interest rates, low investments
Sustainable technology and Industry 4.0-enabled technologies, most recently presented at the ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, are taking the global textile industry by storm. The tech world is rapidly moving…
Pakistan’s Swot analysis
Let’s start with the strengths. There is a new government under a new administration. As always, there are supporters and detractors – as there should be in a healthy democracy.…
China: aid, trade and investment
In Pakistan, there has been increasing interest and academic curiosity about the growing role of China as an ‘aid provider’. An analyst has even termed China as a “new leader…
Open up clogged investment arteries!
The real corridors of prosperity" carried by Business Recorder on October 20, 2016 I had dilated on the potential pathways for attaining prosperity for the people of Pakistan. Among the…
Economics of investment
Why is Pakistan barren so far as investment is concerned? With all the horse and pony shows going on the investor refuses to bring in investment. The Musharraf-Shaukat regime did…
American investments in Pakistan
While addressing the 3rd Pakistan-US Business Opportunities Conference in Islamabad last week, the visiting US Secretary Commerce, Penny Pritzker, underlined security, unfair taxation and bureaucratic procedures as key impediments to…
