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Yusuf H Shirazi
Yusuf H Shirazi

  • June 19, 2019

    Debt-burdened servitude

    The accumulation of foreign debt has become a problem of prime concern...

  • April 03, 2019

    Balancing the economy

    The accumulation of foreign debt is a problem of prime concern for many...

  • June 07, 2018

    A devalued economy

    There is once again a demand for devaluation, a reduction in the...

  • May 08, 2018

    Pakistan and GSP Plus

    The General System of Preferences is a mechanism introduced by the...

  • March 17, 2018

    Falling exports

    At the time of Independence, there was no manufacturing industry in...

  • December 03, 2017

    The strains for trade

    All the strains of development planning and the contradictions between...

  • September 13, 2017

    Moving towards export orientation

    At the time of Independence, there was no industry or manufacturing...

  • June 22, 2017

    Shifting trade priorities

    Foreign trade is an excellent barometer to analyse the economic...

  • March 21, 2017

    A matter of incentives

    In a dynamic world, where the developed economies are already making...

  • October 24, 2016

    Balance of trade

    Pakistan has suffered from deficit of trade right from the very start,...

  • October 07, 2015

    The PPP concept

    Pakistan came into being without a resource base. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah thus approached the US to extend a helping hand. The Americans responded positively but conditioned it with...

  • August 12, 2015

    An export economy

    Before Independence in the areas now constituting Pakistan, sports goods, instruments and apparatus were the only goods exported. Earnings from these traditional exports expanded considerably,...

  • June 01, 2015

    The answer is sovereignty

    Economic policymaking at both the macro and micro levels must hold national sovereignty as its fundamental premise. The role of the World Bank and international financial institutions in...