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Is Land Reform Off The Menu? – III

Is land reform off the menu? – III

Land and housing reforms: Innovations and opportunities due to the floods: The destruction of life and property of people due to floods have developed the need and rationale for launching…

Foreign Investment

Foreign investment

Four features of Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s budget stand out. First, thanks to its obsession with reducing the fiscal deficit, the budget fails to raise social-sector expenditure – just when…

Enemies Within

Enemies within

The single most important factor that determines the fate of a nation and its state of socio-economic development is education. It is the scientists and engineers that are changing the…

Loss Of Profi

Loss of profi

In the business world, the term "Loss of Profit" is generally associated with the insurance business and relates to a transaction where loss of profit arising from a shutdown of…

Do We Need Better Regulated Hedge Funds?

Do we need better regulated hedge funds?

As a special investment vehicle designed for large institutions and rich investors, hedge funds are notorious for their ruthless trading strategies aiming to reap high returns, usually these returns come…

PSEs: A Reform Agenda

PSEs: a reform agenda

Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways are Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) just like our national flag carrier - the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). Apparently, the ownership structure of PIA and these…

Beyond Reform?

Beyond reform?

Since the start of World Bank funded Tax Administration Reforms Programme (TARP), FBR has been making tall claims about its automation efforts. All the chairmen of FBR, who headed the…

Economic Crisis In 2013?

Economic crisis in 2013?

There is all the evidence that the present government has put the economy on a path that – without a major change in the direction of the fiscal, monetary and…

Convoluted Expectations

Convoluted expectations

All and sundry continue to protest the lending behaviour of commercial banks and their large `spreads` (the difference between the interest rates on their lending and the interest rate that…