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| May 13, 2007 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 25, 1428 |
The price push
In this special report Dawn’s team of economic reporters surveys markets and attempts to deconstruct the price mechanism to identify factors contributing to the price spiral...
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Political parties blame govt policies
Leading political parties acknowledge price hike to be a major issue and promise to address it by adjusting monetary and fiscal policy if voted to power in election 2007....
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Fruit prices too high
QUETTA: People of Balochistan are deprived of cheap fruits despite the province’s reputation as the country’s fruit basket....
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‘Prices lowest in the region’
ISLAMABAD: Prices in Pakistan cannot be controlled due to the worldwide oil price phenomenon but these prices, especially that of wheat flour, sugar, milk etc were much lower in the country...
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System favours profiteers
KARACHI: Agricultural marketing in Pakistan is a multi-layered and complex system that gives all room to the grain, vegetable and fruit brokers and arhthis (middle man) in the rural areas to exploit small farmer....
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Hard to feed family
PESHAWAR: Javed Khan, a school teacher, finds it hard to earn a decent living for his seven-member family despite working for 12 to 14 hours a day because of the ever-spiraling prices of edibles and utilities....
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Govt reluctant to intervene
LAHORE: In the absence of any effective check or control mechanism cartelisation, greed of retailers and storage capacity of hoarders have become powerful pricing determinant of most of the eatables in the Punjab....
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Foreign players enter rice market
KARACHI: Availability of cheap capital from internal banking sources and rush of foreign traders played havoc with rice trade when profiteers and hoarders took prices to an unprecedented level, thereby depriving consumers from average staple cereals diet....
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Healthcare beyond reach
KARACHI: The government of General Pervez Musharraf is faced with a challenge of introducing a health insurance plan as prices of medicines, drips and syringes, etc.,...
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Consumers must form resistance
KARACHI: While consumers continue to suffer from overcharging by retailers who arbitrarily fix prices of their goods, the City District Government Karachi claims that it has succeeded to a great extent in controlling prices of essential commodities....
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KSE to set new index level records in 2007
KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange has been in the news for the last five years amid unprecedented price flare-ups and massive crashes but still remained the best performing market in the...
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Bitter economics of the sweetener
KARACHI: Sugar consumers have been enduring high prices particularly for the last seven years during which the commodity retail cost increased to more than double of the level prevalent in the year 2000....
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Cellphone users jump to 52m from 1.2m in 2002
KARACHI: Deregulation of the telecom sector and intense competition between the PTCL and mobile phone operators have proved beneficial to the telephone users....
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Petrol prices hitting consumers
KARACHI: Consumers have been hit hard over the rising prices of petrol, diesel and transportation charges besides paying high utility bills of power and gas in the last four years....
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