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The obverse side of the coin
In most cases, it is the seth, having no entrepreneurial skills, who runs these units guided by personal whims
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The reality behind the facade
IMF, World Bank are deliberately creating positive impression of our economy to ensure continued concessional assistance for an unspoken ‘strategic favour’
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Shelter — a fundamental human right
Society needs to move in to fill gaps emerging as govt abandons its fundamental responsibilities towards its citizens
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A camouflaged source of terror funding?
There is evidence of interactivity between trafficking in persons, terrorist activity, drug-related crimes in Pakistan
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Taxing multinationals
A group of leaders has launched an initiative for changing this system and the rules and institutions governing it
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Textile troubles
While govt should look into grievances, it won't be much to ask tycoons to use past windfalls to fund current losses
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Stop reinventing the wheel
Who doesn't know that most of revenue share of state escapes through what has now become 3-cornered game of siphoning
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The Fund’s anti-inclusive growth prescription
IMF seems to be killing off any hope of inclusive growth by advising the government to withdraw electricity subsidies
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Not bold enough
There are no bold measures in the ‘shadow’ budget of the PTI that seem capable of kick-starting the economy
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Mr Keynes’s ‘long run’
The austerity formula has proved, in the long run, to be a stagnation trap for countries that went to the Fund