Why is Pakistan so ungovernable?
Pity the person who has the most thankless job on the planet - leading Pakistan! Even if he's honest, sincere, and competent, the herculean task of clearing the mess we're…
Pity the person who has the most thankless job on the planet - leading Pakistan! Even if he's honest, sincere, and competent, the herculean task of clearing the mess we're…
What higher-order development objectives does Pakistan’s trade strategy and policy seek to achieve? For the past four decades or so, many developing countries have latched onto the coat-tails of the…
Faced with a plunge in profits, Germany's power utilities are having to bend to the will of the government and join the renewable energy revolution, while smartening up on the…
A bumper year for Britain's car industry offers some hope the economy will start to grow in a more sustainable way, with a better balance between investment and spending. In…
Pakistan’s natural gas supply hovers around four billion cubic feet per day and is expected to fall to less than one billion cubic feet per day in another decade. This…
As the Lok Sabha election looms, India’s political battle lines are being redrawn. The Congress, mauled in recent elections, is dispirited. Rahul Gandhi’s probable anointment as its prime ministerial candidate…
THERE is an agenda for economic renewal that is now so well known, so oft repeated, that it risks being entombed in that temple where all good ideas go to…
It has been reported in the press that on January 1, 2014 the federal finance minister gave a briefing to the cabinet on the state of the economy. If the…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is a well-intentioned leader and seems to be genuinely interested in taking the economy out of its existing state of stagflation, which has made the economic…
We have not been able to get the better of inflation. It is generalised and above comfort level. This is a huge challenge, unless we can learn to live with…