Improving tax compliance is undeniably a Herculean task. It requires a big change in the methods and techniques of tax collection and, above all, in the norms of society. Many argue that norms are...
One of the case studies in the course of political economy at Columbia University during my degree programme was about the city-state of Singapore. This study primarily focused on the policies of...
Private investment in Pakistan is low. What are the factors behind such a low rate of private investment? One doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons. Some of the obvious...
Swiss banks are where the ‘dirty money’ of the politicians, drug dealers, tax dodgers, traffickers in blood diamonds and other such people is generally parked. This perception has held sway...
The White House Summit on countering violent extremism continued for three days during last week. Policymakers, community leaders, foreign officials, and representatives of law-enforcement agencies...
It is generally believed that heroic and larger-than-life individuals are the key to good governance and bringing about change in structures responsible for service delivery. The ‘messiah...
We only pay lip service to the problem of corruption in Pakistan. When it comes to actual practice, our hypocrisy stands badly exposed. While voting in elections or finding marriage suitors for our...
Either you were under the intoxicating influence of the communist philosophy of Karl Marx or you did not understand the very basics of economics. This was the reaction until a few years back if a...
More than 2000 of the world’s top leaders in business, government, international organisations and the academia assembled at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting on January 21-24 to debate...
The World Customs organisation, an independent intergovernmental body based in Brussels and representative of 179 customs administrations across the globe which process about 98 percent of the...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently appointed Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a champion of free trade and deregulation, as Vice-chair of the...
The last few years have been defined by events of monumental proportions, events that caused quite a stir around the world. From the Middle East to Africa to Latin America to Asia and then to...
