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The future of public companies
ARE public companies in danger of being extinct? Is it the dawn of the new era of flourishing private firms…
Opaque public accounts
FROM a small trader in a mini market to a broker or investor at the stock exchange, and from powerful…
Poverty numbers off govt’s radar screen
KHALEEQ Nawaz, 24, sitting uncomfortably on the edge of a platform looked tired. He was chatting with a security guard…
Cotton losing to competitive crops
THE cotton crisis in Punjab is deepening. By first week of June, the crop had lost 20 per cent acreage…
KP to achieve wheat procurement target
THE Khyber Pakhtunkhwa food department hopes to procure the targeted 0.325 million metric tons of wheat this year. This is…
Sunflower yield declines
SUNFLOWER is emerging as an important crop for farmers in Sindh offering them better returns than traditional crops.
However, with…
Improving watercourses in Sindh
THE World Bank has assured the Sindh government it would consider extending the $50 million on-farm water management project for…
World economies
Europe
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in its latest economic forecasts for the region warned that Emerging…
Serious issues under rug
THE financial bill 2012-13 has proposed minimum number of amendments, raising fears of mini-budgets to come in the next fiscal…
Shoring up textile industry
AS the leading industrial sector, textile provides livelihood to more than 10 million farming families and accounts for 40 per…
KP budget: more of the same
THE last budget of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ruling coalition government is not different from the previous four ones but for…
Infrastructure development stalled
THE more you invest in a nation’s infrastructure, the faster will be the economic growth.
This truism has been reiterated…
Budget 2012-13 a political document
THE most worrying aspect of the budget 2012-13 is on the expenditure side.
In his speech Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez…
Global crisis in new stage
THE US jobs report, which showed the worst payrolls growth in a year, capped a week of dismal economic news…
Gas piplines under shadow of the ‘Great Game’
THE ‘Great Game’ is on and the pipeline politics is heating up. The energy chessboard has been spread out and…
Bracing for eurozone recession
PAKISTAN will largely escape the effects of the escalating eurozone debt crisis that is dragging down the world economy. Still,…
Imbalance in bank lending
Though not hit directly by the financial crises and global recession of 2008-09, banks in Pakistan face a different kind…
Regulator’s financial plight
THE State Bank has made history. Never in its 65 years of existence has it presented its annual accounts as…
The myth of investment treaties
PAKISTAN’S obsession with bilateral investment treaties remains unabated.
The latest addition to the list is Canada with which Pakistan has…
Policy rate unchanged on fiscal woes
THE State Bank of Pakistan has decided to keep its key policy rate unchanged in its fourth consecutive review of…
