Product pricing: back to basics
In these days of lockdown, it would be interesting to look into the justification of two leading car assemblers raising prices of their vehicles despite plant closure...
Jawaid Bokhari
Labour — an underrated asset
SMEs employ about 80 per cent of the non-agricultural labour workforce.
Budgeting for citizens’ care
Of the authorised federal development spending of Rs526bn...
Price stability: spanner in the works
Big retailers are charging 100pc margin on certain basic kitchen items even though it was about 15-20pc a few years ago.
Economy at a crossroads
The pandemic is acting as a catalyst for a virtuous change, raising some hope in an otherwise dismal environment
Central bank’s role in combating recession
Governance is getting more and more complicated and the solution lies in the wider dispersal of rights...
Breathing space for economy
Will an empowered wing of the Ministry of Finance succeed where fiscal responsibility and debt limitation law have...
Depression economics for free lunch
It is time to shed orthodoxy and adopt innovative ways to return to the path of rapid socio-economic progress
Policy tilt to counter threat to livelihood
The Fund’s advice is to balance cushioning growth with tackling external pressures, including commodity shocks ...
South Punjab: A quest for political consensus
The creation of a Seraiki province has been a long unfulfilled demand of the region.
Empower people to fend off surging inequality
The footprints of Khud Mukhtari are becoming more pronounced in semi-industrialised Pakistan...
Jobs with ‘living wages’
Labour is grossly underutilised in an era where human skills play a primary role in high-tech-driven, sophisticated ...
Technocracy on a slippery slope
With fiscal risks still haunting the country’s economic team after 18 months of strenuous efforts...
Sway of the national consensus
Not a single leading independent economist in the country has supported the front-loaded IMF stabilisation agenda
Weakening bond between prosperity and stability
Sustainable growth remains elusive for want of sound planning. Imbalances are allowed to develop into full-blown crises
Battling poverty amid economic slowdown
Unskilled labour suffering from malnutrition is producing low value–added goods from a globally uncompetitive...
Hamstrung by political instability
Which domestic constituency does the self-declared anti-elitist PTI represent and work for?
Growth outlook gets murkier
The domestic environment is not conducive for fresh investment and economic growth.
Our self-inflicted wounds
While trade policies are being reoriented towards boosting industrialisation, a tight monetary policy ...
In pursuit of a consensus-driven agenda
Deviating from an adversarial approach, the PTI government is now seeking — as per “demands of democracy” —...