GSP-Plus and labour compliance
Previously a beneficiary of the tariff cuts under the Generalised System of Preference, Pakistan is one of the 10 countries which have been granted the Generalised System of Preference Plus…
Privatisation
The decision to privatise government-owned entities brought the subject to the lime light. The debate that has been going on for some time has been reinvigorated again with both the…
Bard for our times
A Copy of William Shakespeare’s complete works was once smuggled into South Africa’s Robben Island prison, in the guise of a Hindu prayer book. It passed from hand to hand,…
Reforming public service
A pyramid-like structure for the civil service -- more at the bottom, less at the top, on the pattern of armed forces -- is being talked about. The exact contours…
In a diseased state
The health sector in Pakistan is in a crisis. Various reports and surveys paint a bleak picture which is not surprising given the breakdown in the healthcare infrastructure. If the…
Managing digitized human resource
In spite the escalating rhetoric about Human Resource Management, in Pakistan, is still remains one of the most ill executed management function, is organisational context mostly due to misconceptions &…
Governance in 2014
Part-II Corruption is not just a cost; it is a curse that deeply affects individuals as well as the state system. It is the single most important obstacle to economic…
Horses for courses
THE railways and horses have a long history in common. Some say that the width of the railway track is the same as the distance between the wheels of Roman…
Enforce the law
The IMF in its report for the first review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) has correctly diagnosed that inflation cannot be controlled without complete operational autonomy of the State…
The story of devolution
In 2001 then president Pervez Musharraf introduced the Local Government Ordinance, 2001. A giant leap towards the establishment of a powerful representative local government, the law literally stripped provinces of…
