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Posts Tagged ‘Inflation’

Post Musharraf Scenario

By Farid Masood • Aug 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Whatever the case may be, Musharraf resigns willingly or compelled to do it or through impeachment process, there would be a great vacuum during impeachment also in Pakistan’s political leadership. We need to have a politically strong person in President’s chair. Thought the powers centers made be General Musharraf to survive may be curtailed even [...]



Change Required in Buying Behavior to Push Back Inflation

By Farid Masood • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the grocery store he pays Rs. 12 a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won’t last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time. One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to Rs. 16. The next [...]



Shattered Rupee

By Gul Raiz • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The sharp fall in the rupee against the steadily falling dollar in the backdrop of horrendously rising oil prices, and the melting down economy with no outside investment whatsoever coupled with contorted inflation has posed grave challenges for the new government.
The above worries have become even more worrisome as the new government in its fourty [...]



The Diseased Spirit and Suffering Nation

By Dr RazaHaider • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Why do we have to blame every cause and happening to America…………….. We can have our own way of expression and assimilation of suggestion as mandatory call reflects your own failure, due to weaknesses.



Shaukat Aziz’s Figure Fudging

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Throughout his tenure, the former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, more commonly known as Shortcut Aziz didn’t tire of telling us as how well the economy was performing, and how the national exchequer was brimming with cash and the foreign reserves were all time high and all the economic indicators were showing nothing but positive signs [...]



Elections & Economy

By Farid Masood • Feb 2nd, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Holding elections for a poor (apparently rich) country like Pakistan is a big ask, in terms of administrative measure, economic burden, rising issues of political parties, international pressures and terrorism etc. Here the terrorism does not means in American terms, basically the dealing between politicians and the prospect killing of politicians.
State Bank of Pakistan has [...]