August 22, 2005	Monday	Rajab 16, 1426

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American investors want IPRs, taxes, image issues addressed Foreign direct investment has crept up in recent years but the increase has been slower than projected...		Stock market meltdown: picking up the pieces DEPOSING before the National Asssembly Standing Committee inquiring into the stock market fiasco, Chairman SECP tacitly accepted his inability to discipline the country’s stock broker community....
Improving corporate governance THIS article takes both a macro and a micro view of the “panacea” we call “privatization.” A popularly borrowed view is that if things do or do not go well in...		Making judicious use of water in farming ONE of the major handicaps of Pakistan’s agriculture is inefficiency, wrong or over application of water that results, on one hand, in the wastage of a precious resource and on the...
Moong bean yellow mosaic virus MOONG bean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) is the most destructive viral disease of moong bean or green gram and mash or black gram in tropical and subtropical Asia, including Pakistan....		Mango, date: culture and export PAKISTAN is bestowed with diverse agro-ecological conditions to produce a range of unique quality horticultural crops. Among them mango and date hold prominent place by ranking second and third respectively in national fruit production....
Snags in dairy sector development PAKISTAN with 33 million tones of milk production per year is ranked as world’ fifth leading milk producing economy. Per capita milk availability is about 240 litre per annum that is much higher than most of the developing countries....		Conflict management over new dams THE controversy over water availability is at the heart of conflict over building new dams for upstream water storage. Sindh’s experts estimate that every four to five years, the yearly system flows are around 123.59...
Promoting quality culture in organizations INTRODUCING a new quality culture across the entire spectrum of an organization or on a department-by-department basis depends on the collective effectiveness which can only be inspired, balanced and sustained through...		World commodity report OIL-producing Arab countries intend to boost their output from the current 32.2 per cent of the world oil market to between 38 and 40 per cent by 2010, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting...
Emerging new businesses for women ECONOMIC empowerment of women has been the main focus of multi-dimensional approach of successive governments to alleviate poverty since mid- eighties, as women comprise almost 70 per cent of the impoverished population of the country....		WTO and its impact on the economy AMERICA in 1930 enacted the ‘Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act’. It was meant to reduce imports and stimulate domestic production. Retaliation with equal high tariffs by afflicted nations took place leading to a tariff war....
Raising productivity in sugar industry THE country’s sugar industry, starting from only two small units in 1947, now comprises 77 large cane sugar mills and four beet factories, 22 ethanol distilleries, four beet pulp cattle feed plants and 12 board plants using bagasse....		A developing country discouraging savings THE average deposit rate of banks in Pakistan from June is 1.8 per cent, while the inflation for the year ending July was 9 per cent....
An evaluation of the task force report THE task force report on the March 2005 stock market crisis has attracted wide spread interest since the day it was made public. The opinions on the report are divided....		Setting up tele-centres in rural areas PROVIDING telecom infrastructure to rural and remote areas has always been a technical and financial challenge. Huge distances between settlements and the sparseness of scattered rural populations have created difficulties for government and service providers....
Karachi stock market stages a weekend rally THE stocks were back on track last week after shrugging off the protracted bearish outlook. It was the outcome of strong covering purchases in leading oil shares at the current low levels on perceptions that the worst was now over....		Central bank hikes cut-off yield on Treasury bills AT the fortnightly Treasury Bills auction held by the State Bank of Pakistan on August 17, the central bank accepted bids worth Rs14.65 billion out of the offered amount of Rs52.05...
Remittances help meet dollar demand THE rupee moved in a tight range versus the dollar in the inter-bank market on August 15, trading at Rs59.66 and Rs59.67. Satisfactory position on the supply side matched dollar demand in the market....		Sugar imports fail to bring down prices THE wholesale Karachi commodity markets showed stray changes in the prices of essential items mostly on the lower side as some commercial traders and importers liquidated their long positions fearing further fall....