Investments in KP
The PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has been making efforts towards bringing around a change in the economic, social, cultural and political affairs of this volatile province of Pakistan. It…
Responsibility not an obligation?
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has released its 2015-16 annual report, which traditionally has served as a credible assessment of the economy's performance during a fiscal year. While this report…
Special economic zones
One of the most prominent yet generally lesser known legal regimes or policy initiatives for benefit of business and investment attraction in recent time in Pakistan has been the introduction…
Punjab’s war on child labour
A society’s moral health is gauged by the kind of treatment it metes out to its women, the elderly and children. Children form the most vulnerable group, most likely to…
A solar revolution in Pakistan
Pakistan has taken its first step towards the solar revolution that is gripping the entire world. Pakistan’s energy mix, for the first time in the country’s history, has incorporated solar…
In search of education
A nation without education is little more than a gathering of apes and monkeys. Unless we start investing massively in education, science, technology and innovation, as was done by Singapore,…
Only visits won’t do
The chief of army staff (COAS) made brief stopovers at Wana, Miramshan in south and north Waziristan soon after taking charge – a clear message to all that he attaches…
Behavioural economics in developing countries
The fairness principle in economic management has never been applied in managing economics and when this is based on analysis that is based on urgency; the chances of its success…
The many pitfalls of economic democracy
Pakistan's economic systems are in a mess and the reason is not far to see. The instability and the uncertainty in the economic system is such that the players do…
Two years after the deluge, Thailand braces for more floods
The Baan Khun Phra Guest House, on the bank of the Pasak River in the former Thai capital Ayutthaya, has been knee-high in water for the past week. About two…
