Invigorating fiscal management – II
The 18th Amendment gives provinces equal rights over their natural resources. Article 172(3) confers 50 percent ownership of hydrocarbon petroleum resources to the provinces. The subject was earlier held by…
Auto Sector: Investment Potential In Pakistan
The tireless efforts of the Finance Minister and his economic team over the last 2 years have resulted in creation of a favourable macroeconomic environment in the country. However, the…
Economic Management
Caught up as a frontline state in war against terror, raked by endemic corruption, emaciated by the laundering out of billions of dollars of ill-gotten wealth and mismanagement by ruling…
Coordinated border management: An inclusive approach
The Word Customs Organisation (WCO) has given the theme of 'Coordinated Border Management' (CBM) to the customs organisations world over for adopting this practice area during the year 2015. Current…
Chinese solar investments
Last week I wrote about the Karot Hydropower project, the documents for which were signed during President Xi Jinping’s visit to Pakistan recently. This week I took a closer look…
EU investment plan may be a day late and a euro short
The European Union's vaunted investment plan, due to be formally blessed by the bloc's 28 leaders at a summit this week, may be a day late and several euros short…
Economic management
Last week I was in Muzaffarabad, presenting a medium-term outlook for the economy at the strategic offsite meeting of one of Pakistan’s largest banks. The views from the conference room,…
Flawed economic management
There have been four developments in FY14 on the balance of payments front that have been paraded by the Ministry of Finance as indicators of its success in economic management.…
Deflation threat in Europe may prompt investment rethink
The threat of deflation in the eurozone could reverse a major investment trend of 2013, drawing funds out of stocks and into government bonds and cash. Europe is still some…
Hundred days of economic management
During the five-year tenure of the PPP-led government, loadshedding became rampant affecting the productive activities and daily lives of people, growth rate declined to an annual rate only slightly higher…
