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| January 12, 2009 | Monday | Muharram 14, 1430 |
The surge in murky spending
 The current economic imbroglio has been blamed on the ‘irresponsible’ fiscal behaviour of the federal government. It leaned too much on the central bank to wedge the gap between the government...
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Credit-deposit gap widening
 According to the latest statistic of the financial sector, during the traumatic third quarter of 2008 a singularly worrying trend was the rising mismatch between growth rates of bank deposits and bank credit....
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Need to upgrade the warehousing facilities
 AN altogether new business of Logistic Support Service Providers (LSSP) has gradually emerged in the market over the last decade....
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A tough wheat procurement season ahead
 THE farmers and the government seem to be heading for a tough wheat procurement season, with the former facing a real threat of price crash and the latter ending up being the sole buyer in a glutted market....
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Addressing fishermen’s plight
 THE recently announced “National Policy and Strategy for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development” by the federal ministry of food, agriculture and livestock outlines a number of measures to improve the lives of poor fishermen....
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Use of allelochemicals for pest management
 CROP pests such as weeds, insects and diseases are menace for crop plants which prevent them from reaching their genetic potential, limiting their productivity....
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Manufacturing mobile handsets
 If things move according to plan, you would be able to replace your imported cellular handset next year with one ‘Made-in Pakistan’....
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Focus on alternative sources of energy
 CHEAP and reliable energy is the driving force for any economy. Pakistan has a very limited fossil fuel resource base and the current state of the economy does not allow the import of fossil fuels, particularly oil, on a large scale....
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Accrediting human resource profession
 Human Resource Management as a profession is gaining foothold in the business arena. Over time, more and more companies are transforming personnel management to HR management....
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World economies
Latin America...After six years of strong performance, Latin American and Caribbean economies will slow considerably this year as the global economic meltdown takes its toll on the region....
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India’s second fiscal stimulus in a month
 WHEN the financial crisis unravelled in the West, leading to a global economic meltdown in the last quarter of 2008, many policy-makers and observers in India were confident that the country...
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Strengthening the State Bank autonomy
 THE measures for strengthening autonomy of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) can broadly be divided into three categories: First, the SBP has to act within the legal framework to realise its operational autonomy....
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Crises, status quo and change
 The interest rates in the US and Europe are moving closer to zero, indicating the gravity of the current global crisis embracing developing economies and threatening to envelop the emerging economies and markets....
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Power shedding
The country is hit with the worst power and gas shortage in years and everyone is suffering on account of it....
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Interest rates to move close to zero?
 BRITAIN faces the worst economic outlook since the early 1980s, according to the Financial Times’ annual survey of leading economists, which shows considerable concern that the Treasury’s forecast of a recovery in the second half of the year is too optimistic....
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Can Islamic mode influence conventional finance
 NEWS reports are suggesting that no Islamic financial institution has failed in the credit crisis, while unprecedented bailout packages have been put together to deal with the systemic threat posed by the falling conventional financial institutions....
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Energy crisis: no end in sight
ADVISOR on Finance Shaukat Tarin has indicated that an integrated energy policy will be evolved in the immediate future to get to grips with the looming energy crisis and to address...
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Theory in practice: myth and reality
 Before myths become theory they must be tested by reality – by facts on the ground. Sometimes that takes a long time. Sometimes when what has become conventional wisdom can be shown to be flawed by developments theoreticians had not predicted....
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Creeping stock rally on institutional, fund buying
 THE stock market last week further extended the creeping rally as investors continued to build-up long positions at the attractively lower levels under the lead of strong fund and institutional buying...
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Rupee shows stability versus dollar
 In the local currency market, the rupee this week mostly maintained a stable trend versus the dollar and euro....
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SBP’s target and liquidity crunch
 Market Treasury Bills (MTBs) auction target of Rs565.0 billion announced by the State Bank of Pakistan for the January-March quarter of the current 2008-09 fiscal year will not cause any liquidity crunch in the inter-bank market....
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Slow arrivals increase prices of essentials
 PHYSICAL activity on the Karachi wholesale markets last week was on the lower side of the weekly average as commercial dealers played on both sides of the fence adjusting and taking stock of their positions before the annual closing....
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