‘Misperceptions of IMF’: MoF’s response
Dr Hafeez A Pasha has written an article: "Misperceptions of IMF" published in Business Recorder October 5th 2015. It stated that the executive board of the IMF must be thanked once again…
Dr Hafeez A Pasha has written an article: "Misperceptions of IMF" published in Business Recorder October 5th 2015. It stated that the executive board of the IMF must be thanked once again…
"The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me; it has its origins way back in time. For example, the Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun wrote in his fourteenth-century…
As Greece flounders on the edge of unchartered socio-economic territory, awaiting an Odysseus to steer its ship back to safety, the world looks on with bated breath as to whether…
The release this past April of the World Bank's 2014 Findex report was a major wake-up call for Pakistan. Less than 10 percent of Pakistani adults have an account at…
The finance minister has been advocating that all the major political parties should sign a ‘charter of economy’ on the pattern of the charter of democracy concluded some years back…
In the midst of this existential war against terrorism and extremism, the attention of our political leaders has almost totally been distracted this week by the spectre of horse-trading in…
The good news is that the scale of militant violence has come down significantly because of military operations in the tribal areas; the bad news is that little progress has…
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…
Commodity prices have been falling, led by the precipitous collapse globally in the price of oil from a peak of $120 per barrel to a low of below $40. Oil…
Two recent statements by the Inter-Services Public Relations should have raised the spirits of all those who wish to see a formidable threat to the state and society of Pakistan…