As next round of US tariffs on China looms, both sides dig in
With US President Donald Trump gearing up to impose tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods and Beijing certain to retaliate against any measures, the world's two biggest economies are…
Pursuing power sector transformation through structural reforms
As anticipated, implementation of key structural reforms in local power sector was one of the core recommendations made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during Article IV consultations with Finance…
The ‘Tariff Man’ dislodges global trade
Donald Trump has made ‘economic nationalism’ a centerpiece of his agenda in office. And the world-wide repercussions of this agenda have thrown international trading system into total disarray causing hardship…
Pakistan capital market reforms: The road ahead — I
With the Pakistan stock market rebounding over the last several weeks there is a sense of euphoria amongst market participants. And rightly so, as the long doldrums in the market…
Zero reforms
The government of Pakistan has signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The agreement has structural benchmarks, performance criteria and monitoring instruments. Yes, it is one of the…
Reforms and reformers
ANY new government coming to power in Islamabad is well advised to steer clear from the advice offered by the bureaucracy. These are some of the most entrenched and costly…
Budget 2019-20: Essential reforms
In this article, we are presenting some fundamental institutional/structural reforms in tax system prior to announcement of budget 2019-20. For the last many decades, the main emphasis of every budget…
Ahead of China anniversary, trade war fans calls for faster market reforms
China's trade war with the United States is spurring some Chinese entrepreneurs, government advisers and think-tanks to call for faster reforms in the world's second-largest economy and the freeing of…
Necessary reforms
Pakistan’s oil and gas sector is searing through inefficiencies and losses. The ever-increasing transmission and distribution losses of both the Sui companies have put the sitting government in a fix.…
Economic reforms
The dawn of the new century provided an exceptional opportunity to fix the tax system. The military government did not face the lingering political uncertainty that characterised the tenures of…
