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Articles with tag: TRADE

Mr. Dollar, The good old days are gone, perhaps forever

fawad butt   Jul 4, 2007   interacts: 10

The young Euro, once a weakling against the fledgling dollar has quickly become the 800lb gorilla

The Political-Economy of the South Asian Economic Union

Athar Osama   Dec 30, 2005   interacts: 91

While SAFTA doesn't seem to make immediate economic sense, a South Asian Economic Union (SAEU) may still make considerable political sense, provided its anchor country, India, displays the kind of 'self-less' leadership required to make it a reality.

The Forgotten Economics of SAFTA

Athar Osama   Dec 19, 2005   interacts: 51

Free trading areas, and especially economic unions, whenever they come about, require tremendous commitment and impose disproportionate costs on various segments of the populations of the countries involved

Whorrible!

Zafar Anjum   Dec 7, 2004   interacts: 16

The film, part fiction, part documentary, was on the lives of prostitutes and was appropriately called Whore (Yo Puta in Spanish). Yo Puta should have correctly translated into I, Whore. It is based on Isabel Pisano’s eponymous book.

Trade, can it Herald Peace?

Aman Malik   May 10, 2004   interacts: 136

Even at the height of the Kargil war, India was importing sugar from Pakistan, and regimes on either side of the border had a tough time dealing with this fact, in the light of the nationalist fervor.

Let my People Go

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Nov 30, 2003   interacts: 4

Man was born free but is held in protectionist trade chains almost everywhere

Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand and Kashmir

Dost Mittar   Oct 9, 2003   interacts: 108

Indians have an uncanny knack for sniffing out an NRI. Mr. Butt was no exception. As soon as he identified us as the migratory birds from a distant land, he upgraded the product on display.

Message in the Bubble Burst

tayyab rashid   Jul 12, 2003   interacts: 75

Our IT policy was put together in 1999 – the year when the longest running US economic boom was peaking. A lot has happened since then. Firstly, US tech stocks collapsed in the year 2000,

Great Empire or Grand Illusion?

Sohail Rabbani   Jul 2, 2003   interacts: 93

The world’s only superpower is turning into a banana republic

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Sohail Rabbani   Jun 11, 2003   interacts: 27

we believe that 2003 should turn out to be the fourth consecutive down year for the U.S. equity markets

Inside China Today: Q&A with Dr. Robert Oxnam

Zafar Anjum   Apr 4, 2003   interacts: 35

“The single biggest challenge right now is for the private sector of both countries (India and China) to work with the governments to establish a framework, which promotes trade.”

World Trade Organization

Muhammad A Butt   Feb 5, 2003   interacts: 20

In the past few years we have witnessed global protests against WTO policies

Exchange Rate Policy

Amin Saleh   Dec 26, 2002   interacts: 4

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has been successful in leading people to believe that hard currency is pouring into the economy.

A Tale of Two Countries: Comparing India and Pakistan’s Economies

Zafar Anjum and Syeda Quratulain    Oct 22, 2002   interacts: 137

What ails these economies at war with each other for more than half a century?

Can We Stall Disinvestment Further?

Amirullah Khan   Oct 18, 2002   interacts: 39

The rating on India’s long-term debt has been cut to BB-plus from BBB-minus.

Why Forex Reserves?

Ishrat Hussain   Sep 9, 2002   interacts: 55

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