Let them eat cake
Perhaps there is no single professional class more useless in the modern world – dominated by the neo-liberal economy – than peasants. According to an anthropologist, the world would barely…
Potential that promises a lot
During his first term in office, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani successfully negotiated with the UN and the US the terms whereon Iran agreed not to use its nuclear capability for…
Limited regional integration barrier
South Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world, but it is also one of the least economically integrated. Intra-regional trade accounts for just 5% of total…
MoF’s response to IPR report on IMF
In its recent report, the Institute of Policy Research, headed by Dr Hafiz Pasha, has attempted to find faults with the description of the economy given by the IMF in…
Apologising to Bangladesh
Each year for the last 43 years we discuss the separation of East Pakistan in December. Much of the discussion is around the military operation rashly started in early 1971.…
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…
Towards agri-led growth
Punjab is pursuing an aggressive growth agenda and agriculture is at the centre of this. The province not only provides food and nutrition but also supplies the raw material for…
CPEC is an FDI magnet: PBIT chief
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a business magnet attracting investment from Europe and other regions; 46 billion dollars from China means many more chunks of 46 billion dollars from other…
Enhancing skills
In recent years, there has been a great deal of hype about ‘skilling Pakistan’ and capitalising on the ‘youth bulge or demographic bomb’ in Pakistan. Sadly, there is not much…
The STI vision
The magnitude of the knowledge gap between the Islamic world and the West can be judged from the fact that 90 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to faculty members of…
