The ongoing slide
The IMF review team headed by Jeffrey Franks is satisfied with Pakistan's performance in the first quarter following IMF's sanction of its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and its verdict is…
US expects climate talk progress, cites China cooperation
The United States and China, the two largest emitters of greenhouse gasses, have been at loggerheads for years over any international treaty that would mandate reductions. But the US envoy…
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…
Putin’s failure damning Russia to low growth trap
Russia's failure to significantly change its energy-dependent economic model under President Vladimir Putin is consigning the country to potentially decades of low growth and eroding its status as a top…
Cuba opens the port of Mariel to the world
More than 30 years after 125,000 Cubans left their country for the United States in the so-called Mariel Boatlift, the communist island's authorities are hoping to attract foreign investment precisely…
Rethinking Fata
IN my last article (`Need of the hour in Fata`, Oct 1) on the subject, I argued that Fata needs a new system of governancebecause the pieces that held together…
The one percent
Gregory Mankiw’s essay, ‘Defending the one percent’, is a forceful response to Professor Joseph Stiglitz’s thesis against concentration of fortunes within the top one percent of the Americans. Professor Mankiw…
Cutting Pakistan off
The view is gaining currency here in Washington D.C. that Pakistan needs to be cut off from all sources of concessional multilateral and bilateral financing to be taught a lesson…
Realignment of ties
The most serendipitous emerging foreign policy event for Pakistan, provided its leadership has foresight, is the ongoing power realignment within the Muslim world, as international engagement with Iran looms on…
Risk of American failure
The idea of bringing the government of the United States of America to its knees has a certain appeal in various parts of the world. Broadly speaking, though, the reasons…
