Privatisation: salvation or an incomplete truth
These days with the news of the government's agenda of privatisation many questions are making the rounds; why privatise? Why might privatisation fail? What is needed to make privatisation work?…
These days with the news of the government's agenda of privatisation many questions are making the rounds; why privatise? Why might privatisation fail? What is needed to make privatisation work?…
This writer has argued before that it is not possible to manage inflation through just one or two policy instruments, especially when one instrument, the interest rate, is expected to…
Pakistan's endearment with the KB dam is one of those aspects whereby the developing world's agriculture tries to defend itself without understanding the underlying reasons for the inefficiencies in the…
Can Pakistan's textile industry take advantage of the recent European Union's opening of the market for textiles? That this has been done by the present government is laudable but are…
The government has said time and again that it is resorting to privatisation in order to reduce the burden on the national exchequer as these state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are running…
Russia's failure to significantly change its energy-dependent economic model under President Vladimir Putin is consigning the country to potentially decades of low growth and eroding its status as a top…
As the eurozone's weakest members crawl out of their longest recession in modern history, their prospects of recovery are weighed down by a crushing mountain of debt far heavier than…
The pace of the rupee erosion left Pakistanis bewildered with the vast majority of analysts terming it against national interest as well as against the interest of the common man…
Meleourne's reputation as the world’s most liveable city is well deserved. I spent most of last year there. As well as a chic city centre and immaculate suburbs, there’s non-stop…
Over the past few months, Pakistan`s economy has crossed three unhappy milestones of sorts: The rupee finally crossed the 100 to a dollar mark, having lost over 10pc in its…