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                                                            Trade tariffs: Our strategically wrong movesAs countries move towards liberalisation, Pakistan looks to protect domestic industry 
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                                                            Foreign aid flow a politically motivated processStealing aid has become a principal way in which elite make money 
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                                                            Weighing in on benefits: Implementing transit fee on CPEC routesLevying transport charge may be only tangible benefit 
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                                                            How well-planned is the Planning Commission?New development paradigm must to move ahead 
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                                                            Insurance sector’s glory days long goneMarket remains state-dominated; regulator has done little for promotion. 
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                                                            Economic revival only running in first gearPositive accounts of economy are true, but only present one side of the picture 
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                                                            Mafia works where the state failsHow plunderers are cashing in on distorted markets in absence of rational pricing 
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                                                            To increase revenue: The govt’s only tool; increase rate of withholding taxInstead of increasing tax base, authorities are looking at short-term measures 
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                                                            Haemorrhaging money in state-owned enterprisesGovt can improve the situation by following principles of corporate governance 
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                                                            Disproportionately: Taxation system not anti-poor but anti-middle classRuling political parties don’t take tax from their voters 
 
    











