In support of a tiered university system
The seeds of California’s public university system – as it is today – were sowed in 1960, with the California Master Plan. The plan aimed to combine exceptional quality and…
The seeds of California’s public university system – as it is today – were sowed in 1960, with the California Master Plan. The plan aimed to combine exceptional quality and…
THE violent dispossession of Palestinians’ homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the continuous harassment of Palestinians and the apartheid imposed on them in occupied Palestine, and the indiscriminate…
Mao Zedong proclaimed that ‘women hold up half the sky’ but he forgot to recognize that we still live in a man’s world. Women’s empowerment through access to finance, jobs,…
The Audit Oversight Board (AOB) established under the SECP Act, 1997 to regulate audit profession in the country and the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) recently formed under the control of…
Globalization has recently come under attack for having given rise to excessive nationalism and protectionism. Excessive nationalism and protectionism carry the potential to hamper global economic recovery. For this reason,…
Is the declaration of a financial emergency imminent if the budget 2018-19 is implemented? This has been categorically rejected by Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail as one would have expected…
A recent study (November 24, 2017) provides an assessment of routes, actors and sources of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and corruption in and between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal,…
State Bank of Pakistan released its "Enterprise Technology Governance & Risk Management Framework for Financial Institutions" at the end of May 2017 and expressed its desire that all FIs to…
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Friday assured full support to private universities provided they follow rules and regulations. A consultative meeting was held on Friday at the HEC office…
FOLLOWING several boom-and-bust cycles over the last 25 years, Pakistan’s economy is once again in a challenging situation. Public-sector deficits and losses in state-owned companies ballooned in recent years as successive…