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Stimulating investment in logistics
PAKISTAN is said to be moving quietly, though rather slowly, towards transforming state enterprises by removing institutional, technical and ideological…
Right time to engage IMF
WITH the domestic and foreign investment at a low ebb and capital inflows drying up owing to the global financial…
Consumer goods firms raking in profit
GOOD times are rolling for the consumer goods companies with rising corporate profits recorded for December 31, 2011.
Nestle (Pakistan),…
Maize crop needs more care
MAIZE output has been on the rise for some years thanks to growing use of better crop management techniques as…
Promoting safety culture at farms
TO perform different farm-related jobs, growers use hand tools operate electric/mechanical machines and interact with toxic chemicals on a daily,…
Punjab’s culturable waste
THE huge culturable waste of 3.85 million acres in Punjab and gross under performance of its agriculture potential are becoming…
Unending woes of tail-end cultivators
WHILE improved flows of water are reaching Kotri barrage, the woes of tail-end growers are unlikely to be addressed anytime…
World commodities
Gold/Platinum
IN the London market gold rose to six month highs on Sept.6 after the European Central Bank offered enough…
Easing controls over power sector
THE worst-ever energy crisis has exposed the credibility of the government machinery and bad governance. All service providers — departments/authorities…
Need for a national product design institute
A national machinery design institute was planned to be set up in the late 1990s under Pakistan-China Scientific and Technical…
Wetland system to combat water pollution
IN Pakistan lakes and wetlands cover an estimated 9.7 per cent of the total surface area. Around 225 listed significant…
Risks in unorganised fireworks sector
MANY countries around the world have imposed a ban on the use of firecrackers, which are considered harmful for the…
Global competitive ranking
Pakistan’s economy is losing its global competitiveness because of a host of factors but mainly because of rampant corruption and…
What is holding back the US economy?
While the speech by US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke was the centre piece of the two-day annual Jackson…
Decline in bank credit for labour-intensive sectors
AS the current trends indicate, there is no possibility of the economy achieving a sustained high growth rate of seven…
Banks averse to housing loans
TENS of thousands of people construct houses or buy apartments with their lifelong savings or with money borrowed from anywhere…
Tardy growth in provincial tax revenue
THE provinces have come under heavy fire for their unwillingness to effectively tax such untaxed and under-taxed sectors as agriculture…
Is market rigged?
Policymakers at the federal and provincial levels and the textile industry seem to be playing with the future of cotton…
Spike in gas line losses
THE energy sector is passing through a very critical phase. And one of the most pressing problems being faced by…
Consolidation phase in stock trading
THE bull-run came to a screeching halt at the Karachi stock market in the week ended Friday with the KSE-100…
