US bank loan plan provides Fed rate hike path amid SVB fallout
A US lending program to stem deposit outflows in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse gives the Federal Reserve scope to continue raising interest rates if needed to slow…
Inefficient land use
Domestic commerce historically has been ignored by both policymakers and researchers in Pakistan to date. This is reflected in the dearth of existing research on domestic commerce and its potential…
Door slams on Japan bank rally as focus turns to bond holdings in the wake of SVB
Tokyo banking stocks stood within sight of decade highs last week, testing the top of a range that has bound them since the 2008 global financial crisis — then Silicon…
Indus Waters Treaty under threat: Part – III
Pakistan’s rejection of the Indian government’s call for negotiations – on modifying the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) – made on January 25 through the Indus Commission was fully justified. The…
Textile industry: water management
Unsustainable industrial water consumption has become a massive environmental sustainability challenge. Discharge of untreated wastewater, lack of water-efficient technologies, and absence of recycling and reuse techniques are significant contributors to…
Indus Waters Treaty under threat: Part – I
On January 25, the Indian government proposed, through a communication from the Indian Indus commissioner to his Pakistani counterpart, bilateral negotiations – to commence within ninety days – on modifying…
A year on, Ukraine’s embattled nuclear plant turned Russian ‘military base’
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant no longer produces electricity and serves solely as a military base for Moscow’s troops, the exiled mayor of the city of Energodar, which houses the…
SVB’s lightning collapse stuns banking industry
The rapid unraveling of SVB Financial Group has blindsided the banking industry after years of stability. The collapse on Friday, the largest bank failure since the 2009 financial crisis, had…
Understanding austerity
There is a general confusion in Pakistan, whereby austerity policies are taken as belt-tightening in terms of prioritising against less important expenditures or reduction in expenditures with regard to running…
Has US shot the dollar in the foot?
Who could’ve known that one of the unintended consequences of the Ukraine war would be the first signs of a shift that could dethrone the dollar as the world’s reserve…
