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Foreigners’ growing leverage in key, lucrative market segment
THE septuagenarian Dr Joseph Mark Mobius (born August 17, 1936), the global investor and emerging markets fund manager, is thought…
Provinces object to SROs as their revenue share dips
The provinces aren’t very happy with the federal government for allowing lavish tax cuts to different powerful business lobbies over…
Need for a strong govt for efficient delivery
Pakistan needs a strong government with decisive electorate mandate to manage the country effectively.
If election 2013 throws up another…
Ensuring level playing field for farmers
A USAID report released last month substantiates the view of the country’s agriculture lobby that unless a level-playing field is…
Increasing sunflower output to cut imports
MAXIMISING sunflower production and its cultivation as an alternate major Rabi crop in Sindh is handicapped due to acute shortage…
Edible oil production on the rise
DOMESTIC production of edible oil is increasing, cutting into foreign exchange spending on imports of palm oil. This is due…
Combating regional pest attacks
FOLLOWING the Indus Basin Water Treaty, which binds both India and Pakistan to forewarn each other about flood flows, should…
World economies
Chile
CHILE is the fifth-largest economy in South America and has the second highest GDP per capita in the region.…
Lag in Millennium Development Goals
PAKISTAN lags behind on 25 Millennium Development Goals indicators with only eight of them on track.
The unachieved goals include…
Economy: removing fault lines
‘CAPITALISM is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately and corporately owned and development…
Developing hydropower: potential, risks and constraints
HYDROPOWER is the largest source of renewable power generation worldwide, being recognised as reliable, sustainable, dependable, most cost-efficient in generating…
Aviation policy: back to control raj
INDIA’S civil aviation policy appears to be wrapped in confusion, with the government occasionally unveiling pragmatic measures to boost the…
Lower borrowing costs to push up sukuk sales
GLOBAL Islamic bond sales are set to surpass the 2012 record as Persian Gulf issuers take the lead to tap…
Disconnect between growth, income and jobs
TWO kinds of middle-class Americans are struggling today — people who can’t find any work or enough work, and full-timers…
Euro zone economy in worst contraction since 2009
THE economy of the 17-member euro zone contracted 0.6 per cent in the last three months of 2012, while that…
Faster transmission of monetary signals
THE recently-released data on large-scale manufacturing showing 2.13 per cent growth in the July-December period, and 21 per cent gain…
From indigenous to imported coal
THE federal government violated its own policy decision last month when it approved an Asian Development Bank loan for power…
Damaging discretionary powers
THE use of discretionary powers in the name of Statutory Regulatory Orders creates distortion in the economy and mostly, unfairly…
Unilever seeks higher royalty
UNILEVER and Holcim Ltd., ‘the world’s largest cement maker’, are seeking higher royalty from their units in emerging markets as…
Foreign inflows push stocks to new peak
Foreign investors’ interest in the local equity market; a bevy of healthy corporate results and relative calm on the political…
