Average expenditure on higher education is 1% of GDP globally. UK is at 0.6%. Pakistan spends about half of that.

Independent analysts applying our methodology to our data to get our results do not validate fudged poverty figures.

Mian Sharif has come out with a proposal, wants the constitution to be amended to break the ‘kashkol’ (begging bowl).

Both Federal Bureau of Statistics and the Planning Commission have been shirking their respective responsibilities.

The question is: what should we call Abbottabad now? Hazarewals are the ultimate judge.

The expenditure on education in nine months of 2010-11 was Rs219.76 and in 12 months, it came down to Rs161.2 billion!

Deindustrialisation in Pakistan may be arriving earlier than it makes economic sense.

In this inflationary environment, development expenditure in 14 out of the 17 poorly defined pro-poor sectors declined

The more countries start to think about gold as an index, the more the authorities will try to keep price from rising.

China will be asked to import more and export less. This will spur demand and jobs in the West and economic revival.