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Fading hope for EU tariff cut
THE textile industry fears further delays in the unilateral, temporary and limited tariff concessions announced by the European Union one-and-a-half…
Economy under political stress
THE Supreme Court has sent Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani packing, sparking off a fresh political turmoil. However, the key…
Measuring a firm’s goodwill value
A company’s goodwill is intangible even if someone claims it to be an asset.
The valuation of goodwill being an…
Failure of gram crop in Punjab
THE failure of gram crop has doubled its prices. Frost and drought hit the crop and reduced the yield to…
Wastewater for farming
IN most developing countries including Pakistan, the use of sewage and wastewater for irrigation is a common practice. Small farmers…
Growing mango for exports
HORTICULTURE experts from Australia are working on a project with agronomists of the Sindh government to develop disease-free varieties of…
Sugar-beet crushing in KP
LONG queues of trucks and tractor-trolleys loaded with sugar-beet can be seen these days waiting for their turn to unload…
DFIs needed to reverse deindustrialisation
UNLIKE commercial banks which mainly provide short-term working capital financing, development finance institutions primarily focus on financing development of long-term…
World economies
Turkey
THE Turkish economy surged 8.5 per cent in 2011, the fastest growing in Europe, in spite of sluggish demand…
THE Turkish economy surged 8.5 per cent in 2011, the fastest growing in Europe, in spite of sluggish demand…
Rising frozen food demand
THE global frozen food market, which was worth $218.4 billion in 2010, is expected to grow to $261.5 billion by…
No light at end of the tunnel
THE federal budget 2012-13 has earmarked Rs69 billion for the electricity sector. Wapda and other electric companies have been promised…
Soaring trade and creaking ports
WHILE India’s external trade is soaring with both exports and imports registering impressive growth, the country’s ports sector continues to…
Eying the crisis-driven transformation
WHEN decision-makers fail to take corrective measures in time and resist a paradigm policy shift required by fast changing ground…
World economy: a bleak outlook
THE current global economic landscape is not very encouraging and the world economy remains highly fragile.
While the shortoutlook is…
An uphill journey
GOING by the emerging macro indicators, it seems that the hard times for the economy will not be over any…
One more inconclusive G-20 meeting
THE G20 met again, this time in a Mexican resort town, in an attempt to reach agreement among the leaders…
Informal economy gets an impetus
THE obvious lack of will on the part of the ruling coalition to effectively tax the rich including the large…
The dry initial public offering market
THE initial public offering market was dry yet again in the financial year to close on June 30. In all,…
Forex rates range-bound
Whereas the rupee remained range-bound between per dollar during the third consecutive week ending on June 22, the declining foreign…
Rise in edible oil prices
TRADING activities in the local wholesale commodity markets lacked any buying euphoria owing to thin demand of goods from retailers.…
