Some estimates suggest that middle-income group pays nearly three times more in taxes than business sector
Internationally, there have been misleading theories propounded about so-called slowing of Chinese economy
He was passionate about agriculture development, mitigation of rural-urban income inequality, absorption of new entrants to job market
Infrastructure: Pakistan’s unending energy crisis and high-end user costs have enormously damaged industrial growth and diversification,...
Provinces contribute only one per cent of GDP to national taxes
The end purpose of an industrial policy for Pakistan should be to achieve competitiveness through higher productivity which brings greater profits...
Instead of choosing the winners and losers which was the case with the industrial policy 1.0, the thrust of the new policy that is still evolving is...
The foreign exchange earnings from jute exports which originated from former East Pakistan were pre-empted for allocation to industrialists in what...
Recent developments in the Western countries have reopened the discourse on the need for an industrial policy. Pakistan, which has gone through...
Pakistan will have to develop a unified market linking the farms to retail outlets covering the full supply chain particularly in high-value...
Mechanization, technology and advisory services: one of the major constraints facing small holders is the lack of resources and knowledge about...
Import substitution and export promotion: agro-based exports fetch 75-80 per cent of total earnings but the direct exports of agricultural...
At present, the canal irrigation management system recovers only a quarter of its repair and maintenance costs. In the 1970s, the entire cost was...
The question we have to address is: what can be done to boost the productivity of 88 per cent of the farms that own less than 12.5 acres of land and...
Agriculture forms the backbone of Pakistan’s economy as it provides livelihoods to almost two-thirds of the population, food, water, energy...
The rules of business have to be changed accordingly. It would be imperative that the chief executive officers of metropolitan corporations and...
Proposed governance system for local governments: In light of the experience of the 2001 LGO, let us now examine what needs to be done to avoid the...
The fragmentation of development projects into small schemes catered to the narrow interests of the local communities without any sense of priority,...
This article is divided into three parts. The first part deals with ‘why local government?’ The second with experiences during the 2001-2009...
