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Sep 16, 2024 اردو ► PRINT EDITION ► BR MARKETS ► Dollar to PKR ►

M Ziauddin

The age of geo-economics
Markets

The age of geo-economics

ARTICLE: Pakistan's economy needs to grow at an annual average rate of at least 10 per cent of the GDP over the next...
Published 09 Sep, 2020 02:38am
A new window of opportunities
Markets

A new window of opportunities

ARTICLE: While Tehran's new strategic partnership with Beijing (a 25-year $400b arrangement) will give the Chinese a...
Published 02 Sep, 2020 02:42am
The virtuous cycle
Markets

The virtuous cycle

ARTICLE: With the Covid-19 curve seemingly well on course to flattening it is but natural for the PTI-led coalition...
Published 19 Aug, 2020 02:45am
Digital food for thought
Markets

Digital food for thought

ARTICLE: The world is said to be producing plenty of food, still the number of undernourished has been rising since...
Published 12 Aug, 2020 02:58am
Double trouble?
Markets

Double trouble?

ARTICLE: Oil prices are tumbling not because of supply glut but because its demand is plummeting. There is virtually...
Published 05 Aug, 2020 03:00am
'Unbundling corruption'
Markets

'Unbundling corruption'

ARTICLE: Generally, white collar crimes are difficult to solve. In fact, it becomes almost an insurmountable...
Published 15 Jul, 2020 02:43am
Debt suspension initiative
Markets

Debt suspension initiative

ARTICLE: Pakistan hopes to a make a potential saving of $ 2.7 billion or nearly 1% of 2019 GDP, as the Paris Club,...
Published 01 Jul, 2020 03:09am
Mother of all corruption
Opinion

Mother of all corruption

ARTICLE: Sugar scandal. Atta crisis. Petrol emergency. And many more such outrageous market manipulations are in the...
Published 24 Jun, 2020 03:13am
Budgeting for a federation
Opinion

Budgeting for a federation

ARTICLE: The Budget proposals for the next fiscal year read like a statement of hope written with fingers crossed....
Published 17 Jun, 2020 02:50am
The Great Reset agenda
Opinion

The Great Reset agenda

ARTICLE: In every crisis, there is an opportunity. And there is certainly a godsent opportunity in the Covid-19...
Published 10 Jun, 2020 03:05am
Housing - a fundamental human right
Opinion

Housing - a fundamental human right

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the right to housing as part of the right to an adequate standard of living. Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) also guarantees th
Published 27 May, 2020 12:06am
Food security in the age of Covid-19
Opinion

Food security in the age of Covid-19

There never was any lockdown in the country's agricultural sector. And from the way the NCC and NCOC have been carrying out, their respective efforts over the last two months at meeting the challenges of Covid-19, it appears that for lack of enough testin
Published 20 May, 2020 12:05am
Budgeting for a life with Covid-19
Opinion

Budgeting for a life with Covid-19

Two of the major burdens on the forthcoming federal budget are likely to be relatively lighter compared to what successive budgets had to bear under these heads over the last many decades. The first is the foreign debt, part of which, thanks to Covid-19,
Published 13 May, 2020 12:07am
Economy in a federal framework
Opinion

Economy in a federal framework

When a federal state tries to manage its economy using a centrist financial system the result would certainly be no better than what Pakistan had experienced during its first 63 years leading to 2010 when the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) Award wa
Published 06 May, 2020 12:04am
Budget-making in a pandemic
Opinion

Budget-making in a pandemic

Pakistan's economy which was already in the intensive care unit (ICU), has since February this year gone into a tailspin deepening further the on-going recession induced earlier by an IMF- driven austerity program launched in April last year.
Published 28 Apr, 2020 11:42pm