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Export earning in Indian rupee
The central government of India is planning to extend the realisation of export in rupee for more foreign nations, replacing…
Waking up to meat export potential
PAKISTAN, especially Punjab, is slowly waking up to the export potential in the global halal meat market estimated between $500…
Is it a pause or reversal of policy rate easing?
The State Bank of Pakistan has left its overnight lending rate for banks flat at 9.5 per cent. But it…
Rising bird exports
When Shabbir Ahmad, owner of a small towel factory, came to know that lucrative export of exotic birds was picking…
Improving business environment
THE government has drafted a new investment policy, targeting gross foreign direct investment of $5.5 billion a year by 2017.…
Move to regulate breeding services
THE Punjab government is introducing a law to regulate the surging private breeding services sector stated to be responsible for…
Tactical wait for strategic buyers
IT is not that a strategic investor is not to be found. Regulators and market participants suggest that bourses have…
Political transition, not budget, a big issue
WITH two months to go before general elections and mounting pressure on the external front, no one in the business…
Drastic fall in rice exports
THE decline in rice export this year so far has assumed an alarming proportion.
According to the figures released by…
Controlling gas losses
IN its annual report for 2011-12, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority has reiterated its Mission Statement “to safeguard public interest…
World commodities
Platinum/Gold
IN the Singapore market, platinum rose to its strongest level in four months on February 5 and palladium held…
IN the Singapore market, platinum rose to its strongest level in four months on February 5 and palladium held…
A nation of gas guzzlers
IF gas is used with the same kind of carelessness that is witnessed today, this nation of 180 millions may…
Trade authority lacks legal cover
Trade Development Authority of Pakistan has been working without legal cover for nearly three years as the government has failed…
Consensus on GST models and rates
UNLIKE the bitter battle over introduction of foreign direct investment in the multi-brand retail sector, the United Progressive Alliance government…
Reducing banks’ capital burden
THE president of the European Banking Federation is urging lenders in the region to reinvent themselves and discard the areas…
Cover-up of corporate fiascos
In the network of incestuous relations between financial regulators and banks they nominally police, a growing role is played by…
More taxes on China’s rich
China has signalled it will be taking more from the rich to give to the poor as part of a…
Towards a debt trap
PAKISTAN’s public debt and liabilities have increased by 150 per cent since 2008 to touch Rs15.15 trillion, or 68.4 per…
Exporters’ views on trade with India
It is a well-known fact that China and India have a far more tense relationship than India and Pakistan have.…
Framework for warehousing receipt system
THE current slow growth of the agricultural economy can partially be explained by virtual financial exclusion of small growers and…
