Improving tax compliance is undeniably a Herculean task. It requires a big change in the methods and techniques of tax collection and, above all, in...
One of the case studies in the course of political economy at Columbia University during my degree programme was about the city-state of Singapore....
Private investment in Pakistan is low. What are the factors behind such a low rate of private investment? One doesn’t need to be a rocket...
Swiss banks are where the ‘dirty money’ of the politicians, drug dealers, tax dodgers, traffickers in blood diamonds and other such people is...
The White House Summit on countering violent extremism continued for three days during last week. Policymakers, community leaders, foreign...
It is generally believed that heroic and larger-than-life individuals are the key to good governance and bringing about change in structures...
We only pay lip service to the problem of corruption in Pakistan. When it comes to actual practice, our hypocrisy stands badly exposed. While voting...
Either you were under the intoxicating influence of the communist philosophy of Karl Marx or you did not understand the very basics of economics....
More than 2000 of the world’s top leaders in business, government, international organisations and the academia assembled at the World Economic...
The World Customs organisation, an independent intergovernmental body based in Brussels and representative of 179 customs administrations across the...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently appointed Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a champion of...
The last few years have been defined by events of monumental proportions, events that caused quite a stir around the world. From the Middle East to...
