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Posts Tagged ‘food inflation’

Buying Pressures on Market, Is There Any Solution?

By Farid Masood • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

When salaried class get wages, they go for grocery shopping and dry items for upcoming 15 or 30 days. The Business or upper class purchase items 10 to 15 days in advance for the coming time especially when Ramadan comes. This activity puts buying pressures in the market. Producers of general kitchen items are producing [...]



Is the Rice next after Pakistan Election 2008?

By Farid Masood • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Here, I am not talking about shortage of Ms Rice of USA, as she is there where needed. I am talking about the shortage of yield of crop ‘Rice’, which is the second food item after flour and is much necessary in many diseases when you cannot eat flour. We have witnessed the [...]



Our Survival Depends Upon Feb Elections

By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

18th February elections in Pakistan are somewhat different in the sense that they are not yet another Nora-Wrestling match between Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. They are perhaps yet another dealt-with, pre-decided, Nora-Wrestling, but this time between new players for the new stakes.
These elections are all about change. The sun is setting for the old [...]