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Monday October 21, 2024
Mansoor Ahmad

  • October 22, 2024

    Talent shortage: Pakistan’s competitive disadvantage

    A representational image showing employees of a private company working in a office in Karachi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s economic growth is...

  • October 20, 2024

    Should economic ministers be technocrats?

    The collage shows former finance ministers — Hafeez Sheikh, Shaukat Aziz and Dr Mahbubul Haq. — APP/FilesLAHORE: Appointing economic experts...

  • October 19, 2024

    Recovery amid high energy costs

    A representational image of a transmission tower, also known as an electricity pylon. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Despite rising energy tariffs,...

  • October 18, 2024

    Corruption and tax evasion: a deepening crisis

    A person can be seen holding notes of Pakistani currency Rupee in his hands. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Large-scale corruption often thrives through the...

  • October 17, 2024

    Addressing the rights of domestic workers

    A representational image of a domestic worker busy in household chores. — APP/file LAHORE: The informal nature of domestic work in Pakistan...

  • October 16, 2024

    The struggles of small retailers

    People shop at a market in Lahore, Pakistan on April 30, 2022. — AFPLAHORE: The rapid rise of shopping malls in Pakistan presents a major...

  • October 15, 2024

    Political stability: Key driver of economic growth

    A shopkeeper waits for customers while selling spices and groceries items at the retail market in Karachi. — Reuters/File LAHORE: Stable...

  • October 13, 2024

    Customs dilemma

    The image shows a vehicles of the Pakistan Customs. — APP/File  LAHORE: Incidents of corruption in the customs department may trigger a...

  • October 12, 2024

    Equitable growth over trickle-down economics

    A labourer bends over as he carries packs of textile fabric on his back to deliver to a nearby shop in a market in Karachi on June 24, 2022. —...

  • October 11, 2024

    How to document traders

    Customers shop for bangles at a market in Islamabad. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Documenting traders is the Achilles’ heel of our economy, as successive...

  • October 10, 2024

    Balancing trade openness and forex reserves

    In this file photo taken on April 22, 2022 US dollar coins and banknotes are seen displayed on a table, in London. — AFPLAHORE: Pakistan’s trade...

  • October 09, 2024

    Food insecurity in Pakistan: causes and solutions

    Internally displaced people gather to receive free food near their makeshift camp in the flood-hit Chachro of Sindh province. — AFP/FileLAHORE:...

  • October 08, 2024

    Cultivating thought leadership

    A representational image of the world "leadership" highlighted in a piece of text. — Canva/FileLAHORE: In Pakistan, thought leadership has not yet...

  • October 06, 2024

    The cost of inaction

    Vendors seen selling vegetables at the fruit and vegetable market on February 6, 2024. — OnlineLAHORE: Pakistan’s economy has consistently...

  • October 05, 2024

    From leader to laggard: The decline of Pakistan’s middle class

    People shop at a local market in Rawalpindi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: In 1990, Pakistan boasted the largest middle class as a percentage of its...

  • October 04, 2024

    Steel industry’s unregulated challenges

    A view of the Pakistan Steel Mills . — Pakistan Steel Mills websiteLAHORE: Our steel industry relies heavily on both imported raw steel and...

  • October 03, 2024

    Balancing public welfare and fiscal responsibility

    People take lunch at a public Dastarkhawan. — Bahria Town Website/FileLAHORE: Public appeasement expenditures may be necessary in times of...

  • October 02, 2024

    Can this be our last IMF programme?

    The International Monetary Fund logo is displayed outside its headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2022. — AFPLAHORE: Pakistan’s...

  • October 01, 2024

    Unaccountable discretion

    Women shop at a market in Rawalpindi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Discretionary powers, especially when unaccountable, can significantly distort an economy,...

  • September 29, 2024

    Navigating trade disputes

    Containers are loaded onto trucks at the seaport terminal DIT Duisburg Intermodal Terminal at the Duisburg harbour, on July 13, 2023. — AFPLAHORE:...

  • September 28, 2024

    Risk management in SMEs

    An employee works at a textile factory in Karachi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Risk management culture is generally less prevalent in Pakistan, particularly...

  • September 27, 2024

    The path to sustainable development

    Workers are busy in construction work of Orange Line Metro Train Project at Allama Iqbal Road in Lahore. — APP/fileLAHORE: The argument that...

  • September 26, 2024

    Reforming property taxes

    A residential area in a housing society can be seen in this picture. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Karachi and Lahore have immense potential to fund much of...

  • September 25, 2024

    Growing challenges of SMEs

    An employee works at a textile factory in Karachi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Small and medium enterprises in Pakistan are facing unprecedented challenges...

  • September 24, 2024

    Why Pakistan needs robust institutions

    Representational image shows a man carrying national flags walking through a street on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations in Peshawar. —...

  • September 22, 2024

    The evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem

    A representational image of a company's employees talking with customers at a call centre in Lahore, Pakistan. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s...

  • September 21, 2024

    The fight for fair wages

    Representational image shows a labourer carrying a sack of potatoes at a fruit and vegetable market in Peshawar. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistani...

  • September 20, 2024

    How to alleviate poverty

    A representational image of a man and a child.— AFP/file LAHORE: Alleviating poverty in Pakistan, where 50 per cent of the population is poor,...

  • September 19, 2024

    Tale of two classes

    A person distributes meals among people.— AFP/file LAHORE: The hardships faced by ordinary Pakistani citizens have multiplied in recent years,...

  • September 17, 2024

    Where are diaspora investments?

    A foreign currency dealer counts US dollar notes at a currency market in Karachi on July 19, 2022. — AFPLAHORE: Though the Pakistani diaspora...

  • September 16, 2024

    The divide that drives unrest

    The dilemma in our economy is that the formal corporate sector demonstrates growth and social compliance and yet unemployment remains high, leading...

  • September 15, 2024

    No place to call home?

    Representational image shows labourers working at a construction site. — AFP/FileLAHORE: In Pakistan, where construction is not mechanized, the...

  • September 14, 2024

    Pakistan moves closer to IMF deal

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva in this undated image. — PM's OfficeLAHORE: The successful conclusion of talks...

  • September 12, 2024

    Soft skills

    A representational image of a person talking to youth.— The News/fileLAHORE: Pakistanis generally lack soft skills, which refer to a set of...

  • September 11, 2024

    Regional economic performance

    Pakistani flag can be seen fluttering in front of the parliament building in Islamabad. — AFP/fileLAHORE: Pakistan generally lags behind its...

  • September 10, 2024

    Pakistan’s economic crisis: governance failures and missed opportunities

    A foreign currency dealer counts US dollars at a shop in Karachi, Pakistan, May 19, 2022. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s economic troubles are...

  • September 08, 2024

    Textile imbalances

    An employee working at a textile factory in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, on April 7, 2011. — AFPLAHORE: There is significant potential to...

  • September 06, 2024

    Declining trade share

    Containers are loaded onto trucks at the seaport terminal DIT Duisburg Intermodal Terminal at the Duisburg harbour, on July 13, 2023. — AFPLAHORE:...

  • September 05, 2024

    The fear factor

    Traders, workers, and customers gather at a wholesale fruit market in Lahore on October 16, 2022. — AFP/FileLAHORE: There is a deeply rooted fear...

  • September 04, 2024

    Employment dilemma

    A representational image of employees working in an office in Karachi. — AFP/File LAHORE: Pakistan’s employment crisis, marked by rising...

  • September 03, 2024

    The way forward

    Representational image shows a man carrying national flags walking through a street on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations in Peshawar. —...

  • September 01, 2024

    A well-defined vision

    A man carrying national flags walks through a street on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations in Peshawar on August 13, 2023. — AFPLAHORE:...

  • August 31, 2024

    Breaking tax resistance

    People throng a market area in Lahore. — AFP/File LAHORE: Navigating Pakistan’s current economic and political climate, particularly with the...

  • August 28, 2024

    Reforms must start from the top

    National flag can be seen fluttering in front of the parliament building in Islamabad. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan is facing severe challenges,...

  • August 25, 2024

    Addressing consumer resistance

    People buy pulses and grains at a wholesale market in Karachi on February 1, 2023. — AFP LAHORE: One method to regulate prices is through...

  • August 24, 2024

    Deal or no deal?

    This file photo taken on January 26, 2022, shows the seal for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. — AFPLAHORE: The International...

  • August 23, 2024

    Watch what you eat

    Am Arif Chtkhara stall at the Karachi Eat Festival. — Reporter/Shaharyar KhalidLAHORE: Food adulteration is primarily driven by the desire for...

  • August 22, 2024

    Public good or appeasement?

    In this picture taken on April 16, 2023, people throng a market area during shopping in Lahore. — AFPLAHORE: Provinces use substantial federal...

  • August 20, 2024

    How SMEs in South Asia perform

    Workers conduct quality checks before packing t-shirts at a textile factory of Texport Industries in Hindupur town in the southern state of Andhra...

  • August 17, 2024

    Reality check

    This picture shows a general view of the seaport in Karachi, Pakistan. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s economic challenges do not have quick fixes....