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The health of the economy
Public sector investment crowding in the private sector investment has far-reaching implications for long-term growth.
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Ideas whose time never came
All of the promises made by Hafeez Sheikh at last years budget presentation have not been kept.
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Budgeting without reform
The political class is supposed to tax those who spend on infrastructure, but it has not understand how to do it.
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Punjab’s ‘no’ to foreign aid
As a government -in-waiting, the PML-N must have alternative economic models ready, of which it has demonstrated none.
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Policy coordination and consistency
Public sector borrowing be reduced by 23 per cent and should be shifted to foreign lenders to free up domestic credit.
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The elusive economic consensus
The issue in Pakistan is to show to political parties that economic reform is in their own long-term self-interest.
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How many provinces?
The question of creating new provinces is no longer why, but how and when?
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Imranomics
The skipper says he has been building teams all through his career, but where is the economic team
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Change through social politics
Many who want to do good, stay away from the dirty world of politics, they try to make a difference in their own way.
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Misunderstood: HEC’s devolution — II
A leaner HEC or a commission by any other name to regulate standards of higher education will satisfy requirements.