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Privatisation: Salvation Or An Incomplete Truth

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?…

Limitations Of Monetary Policy

Limitations of monetary policy

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…

Economic Concepts In Irrigation

Economic concepts in irrigation

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…

Cotton Challenges

Cotton challenges

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…

Privatisation Of Strategic Assets: Guidelines

Privatisation of strategic assets: guidelines

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…

Rupee Erosion And Who Benefits

Rupee erosion and who benefits

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…

VJackpot Boomtowns

vJackpot boomtowns

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…

Unwanted Milestones

Unwanted milestones

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…