The lacklustre performance of the public policies in some areas and dismal failures in other domains are breeding ideas falling in the realm of culture change in state governance and corporate organisational reorientation while ground realities are opening up avenues and freedom for individual enterprise. This is happening when the state policies are in a state of flux, and the country is strug
Even after a decade, Bitcoin has not been accepted as a medium of exchange globally by governments, centralised authorities and financial institutions. The European Union has warned the masses against investing in cryptocurrencies, declaring it highly risky, speculative and unsuitable for most retail customers as an investment or a means of payment or exchange. But the question is, what’s wrong
National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) Chairman Waseem Mukhtar on Monday said that promoting energy affordability for the export sector through regionally competitive tariffs was a critical factor in boosting economic growth in current challenging times. Addressing the Pakistan Energy Conference jointly organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and Eventive
Amid the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) persistence for retrospective gas price adjustments to curb runaway circular debt, the caretaker government has to take a series of immediate steps. These steps include increasing cash payments to urban recipients of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), allocating funds for winter gas in Balochistan, and making cash and non-cash book adjustme
Banks’ profits more than doubled to Rs284.5 billion in the first half of the current year from Rs126.2bn during the same period last year, according to a State Bank of Pakistan report on mid-year performance review of the banking sector (Jan-June 2023) released on Monday. The major push to earnings came from higher net interest income, as the rising interest rates translated into higher earning