Old wine in a new bottle
The 10th NFC with the new terms of reference on its agenda is on a course which leads nowhere
Jawaid Bokhari
The known path to financial inclusion
ACCESS to financial institutions for the bulk of the population is at a low level despite official efforts put in...
Affordable housing: an uphill virtuous task
Businesses hold the view that the formalisation of the informal economy is only possible if high tax rates are cut.
Hiccups in governance style
‘The local bodies in Pakistan saddled with a governance style which is top-down, reactive and authoritative’.
The baffling legacy that haunts policymakers
As the progress in the last 22 months indicates, reforms are unlikely to be completed in a single five-year tenure by PTI.
How to formalise the informal economy
Studies show that large-scale enterprises in the documented sector have hidden part of their production.
Pakistan Economic Survey: Stability undermined
Amidst the overall dismal performance of industrial and services sectors, agriculture and small industries both largely in the informal sector posted positive growth
Unleashing the potential of tax revenue
HARD-PRESSED for resources, the centre is trying to enhance the federal share in the National Finance Commission’s...
Space for making a living
The key task in the realm of public welfare is to encourage entrepreneurship at the grassroots in a variety of ways that helps ...
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...
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...