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Wheat price game

In the last few months, the exponential increase in wheat prices adversely impacted the poor class's consumption pattern in Pakistan. On the one hand, the Covid-19 pandemic adversely affected poor…

Valuable foresight

Foresight isn't everything, but in reaching good policy decisions, it may be a whole lot. Effective decisions are largely a consequence of decision-makers’ ability to look beyond the obvious. There…

Wheat and inflation

Food inflation is once again irking both the people as well as the government. People are finding food beyond their economic access, whereas the government is trying its best to…

A tale of two conventions

Held after a gap of a week from each other in August, the Democratic and Republican conventions articulated their formal party positions on a range of issues and offered visions…

A rejoinder

In response to our article (Unconstitutional taxation by provinces, Business Recorder, January 3, 2020), a letter was published on January 9, 2020 titled ‘Unconstitutional’ taxation by provinces: SRB’s response’ that…

The ME conundrum

I am not the Oracle of Delphi. Nor am I Mehwish Hayat who tweets on every subject. Perhaps if she were to show more skin, people might take note. The…

A Downward Spiral

A downward spiral

At the turn of the millennium, India arrived on the world stage as one of the fastest growing economies alongside China, and an emerging global power. The burgeoning Indian middle…