Thursday, July 07, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
Pakistan came into being without a resource base. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah thus approached the USA to extend a helping hand. The USA responded positively, but that conditional upon its extending cooperation to the US in the ...

Saturday, June 18, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
Pakistan has a viable economy. She has the sixth largest population of the world. Pakistan’s human resource is one of the best. Moreover, Pakistani workers and managers are in demand all over the world. Entrepreneurs too don’t lag ...

Monday, May 30, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
There has always been a gap of understanding between the developed and developing countries. The developing countries lack in financial resources and are therefore reliant on the developed countries for aid, loans and credit. ...

Saturday, May 07, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
Cotton ginning factories and rice husking mills were later returned, along with some other small units soon after, in such bad condition that they did not work without reconditioning. The 10 basic industries, banks, life insurance ...

Friday, May 06, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
“What do the Karachiwalas want? Why are they against...?” Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto asked in a hurried meeting in Hyderabad. I was not ready for such a question at all. I paused, leaned back and exclaimed: “How can you expect ...

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
Yusuf Haroon was a legend. Son of an illustrious father, Sir Abdullah Haroon, who was a comrade of the Quaid-e-Azam and ADC to the Quaid, Yusuf Haroon rose high in politics, entrepreneurship and social work. I knew Yusuf Haroon as ...

Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
All the stresses and strains of development planning and contradictions between rapid growth and external viability are depicted in foreign trade, more than in any other national endeavour. This is particularly so in the case of ...

Saturday, March 05, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
Pakistan’s average annual exports have been steadily rising. On the face of it, this improvement has been quite impressive, but the optimism in this regard must be viewed in the light of inflationary expansion of the exports value. ...

Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
The settlement of foreign debt has become a problem of prime concern for many developing countries, in particular Pakistan. The terms of the debt are becoming even more onerous than under the Marshall Plan. The sums needed to repay ...

Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Yusuf H Shirazi
As soon as a developing country breaks off the shackles of an economic pattern not set by it and undertakes economic development leading to self-reliance; it faces numerous contradictions. Of them, the one that is perhaps the most ...