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View from McLeod Road: Has the rupee become more stable since the PRI?
Govt policy to improve remittances may have relatively stabilised currency.
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The technocrat problem
We think being dispassionate, nonpartisan is good; having ideological view, supporting specific party, agenda is bad
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View from McLeod Road: Why PML-N will look better than PPP on economy
The variation has nothing to do with actual performance, just lower oil prices
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Break PSO up
If PSO’s retail business is spun off into a separate company, it would always be able to import oil for fuel stations
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View from McLeod Road: Deregulated prices could have prevented petrol crisis
Rigidity in pricing mechanism is part of the cause for acute shortages.
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A tale of two energy supply chains
Privately owned part of energy sector is handily outperforming the state-owned portion
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A Nash equilibrium in Sindh politics
Elected local govt lower barriers to entry for positions of political influence, its seen as a threat by PPP
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Trade map: Why are Pakistan’s exports declining?
China’s slowdown, Punjab’s energy crisis and other factors all play a role
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View from McLeod Road: SBP needs to stop being the banks’ errand boy
Central bank likes to talk tough, but ultimately does the banks’ bidding
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PPP should merge with ANP, MQM
It may be the centre-left’s only realistic chance of beating the PML-N in the next election