Announcing an official higher or lower poverty number by the country sends the following kinds of signals to the international stakeholders, ie, foreign governments, multilateral and bilateral donors, international NGOs…
Pakistan is one of the top three milk producing countries in the world with an annual production of 46,000 litres. This makes the dairy industry a significant contributor to the…
Pakistan’s socio-economic problems have assumed cancerous dimensions – and the road to recovery is now a minefield. Clearing the minefield, rather than skirting it like past governments, is the only…
The markets have reacted favourably to the electoral victory of Nawaz Sharif, as has the business community. Perception can and does impact on key macroeconomic variables, however, no one at…
The dual menace of power and gas shortage is a serious issue that has caused much damage to the national economy and is likely to damage more, if the right…
An imperfect electoral exercise copied from western models, our democracy has very little relevance to the local environment or the ‘genius of the people’. The ‘first-past-the-post-system’ does not ascertain the…
One of the challenges the new government will face immediately is to make a decision on whether or not to approach the IMF for financial relief. Pakistan borrowed nearly $8…
Some perplexing challenges await the incoming government. It’ll need every ounce of patience, every penny’s worth of wisdom scrapped from past experience to tackle things. For one, the system that…
Vote for Pakistan. This was the slogan that many heard before heading to the polls on Saturday. All through last week, I met people who hadn`t decided who they were…
In the first part of this article (April 30) I summarized the economic challenges that the new government will inherit, suggesting ways to address them particularly in the light of…
