Japan Pm Faces Make-Or-Break Test Three Years Later
It was an irresistible promise: elect me, I'll bring back Japan's once-soaring economy and restore its battered national pride. Three years later, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing the enormity…
Meaningless Economic Performance
The Executive Board of the IMF on December 18, 2015 completed the ninth review of Pakistan's economic performance under a 36-month programme supported by an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement.…
LatAm hands climate bill to rich world at summit
Latin America will demand that the richest and most polluting countries foot the bill for reducing harmful emissions at the world climate summit starting Monday. Countries in one of the…
As Fed Fog Lifts, Central Bankers Keep Puzzling Over China
The world's central banks are scrambling to assess the risk a slowing China poses to their economies and appear to be no closer than most other observers to working out…
Reminder to the prime minister
Sarkar-i-aala, tomorrow a new year begins. I do not think you believe in New Year night revelry, so you should be up early to begin the second half of your…
Sci-Tech-Human Power Complex: A Phenomenon Reshaping World
So, we have started talking about 4th industrial age. Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk are scared of (smart) artificial intelligence robots (thinking machines) that caan create algorithm according…
A goal too far?
After the general election of 2013 as the nation celebrated the smooth transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another, frantic efforts were under way to hammer out…
Financial market gyrations
In case you haven’t noticed, the financial markets in Pakistan have hit choppy waters and nobody seems to be sure of the reason why. The dollar has been rising despite…
A mammoth step in the right direction
New grounds are being broken that promise a bright future after all, for the struggling people of Pakistan. Strategically paramount, Pakistan has remained a chess board for superpower rivalry and…
Risks and issues governing emerging markets
In the recent past we have experienced the emerging market exuberance, rightly so, because in the last decade the size of emerging markets economics stood doubled showing a growth rate…
