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PIA: fab past, grim present, vague future

Ivy league’s business schools are always looking for cases to study in-depth by their students about corporations who after achieving their glorious periods, decline and struggle for their survival. Harvard,…

The secret of Japan’s success [Part – II]

Japan and Pakistan have been enjoying good diplomatic relations for decades now. Development cooperation between the two countries started in 1954, and since then, Japan has provided assistance to Pakistan…

Water sustainability in Pakistan – I

The following are excerpts from State Bank of Pakistan's annual report "The State of Pakistan's Economy" 2016-17: 7.1 Overview Water is a crucial resource for the livelihood of people and sustained…

Development not in sight!

Pakistan currently faces one of its episodic, demand-induced, BoP impasses, which usually end in growth containment, or contraction. In varied assessments for this decades long "glass-ceiling" to growth, what has…

Unbundling corruption’

Generally, white collar crimes are difficult to solve. In fact, it becomes almost an insurmountable challenge when one tries to prove these cases beyond a shadow of doubt in a…

Reforms: institutional impediments (Part – I)

Pakistan excels among many other developing countries in producing first-rate diagnostic studies (what is wrong with us?) , strategies, five-year and annual plans, reports but our implementation record is one…

Indonesian recipe

THE Indonesian National Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extrem­ism (NAP on PCVE) that Leads to Terrorism reflects the fact that countering extremism (CE) requires both long- and short-term…

Digitizing economy

Thanks to broadband connectivity, a rice growing village in Thailand saw its profits soar by 300 percent as it began selling its rice on-line,” disclosed Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary General,…

A new kind of cold war in the offing?

The world is likely to witness a boom in physical infrastructure development activity as the Blue Dot Network (BDN), a multi-stakeholder initiative formed by the United States, Japan and Australia…