Economic Review articles from August 1997

Economic Review archives from August 1997

Anti-terrorism act: risk of miscarriage. (Pakistan)
August 1, 1997... President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari in his meeting urged the Prime Minister to prevent illegal use of the Act by Police and other officials. So there is an apprehension at the highest level about the Act that it could be misused. In the bleak...

Corruption and corruption: undermining the foundation of the country. (Pakistan's Ehtesab Commission)
August 1, 1997... Enormous cases of corruption have been recorded in the administration, of a government and it is apprehended that the Ehtesab (Accountability) Cell will soon become unable to manage and handle all such cases. Appointment in government services,...

ESAF: no room for complacency. (Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility)
August 1, 1997... After the clamour of breaking the begging bowl, upon the termination of the stand-by arrangement last March, Nawaz Sharif government has fallen the IMF trap. The most important element contained in the "home-grown" economic package announced on...

Role of fertilizers in improving crop productivity.
August 1, 1997... Literally, the word fertile means green, productive and growth oriented. Given this definition, by fertilizer, it means a thing which makes the barren land, cultivated, productive, growing and green. The idle becomes dynamic, moving, circulating...

PMA and national health. (Pakistan Medical Association)
August 1, 1997... Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) came into being in the year 1948. Since inception PMA began to play its role in the national health system and in the world medical affairs. One of the aim and objects of PMA is to give professional and expert...

Rural industrialization can only boost agrarian economy. (Pakistan)
August 1, 1997... The core of the cause of poverty as conceived by the leading economists is the absence of assets among a considerable large number of people. The fact is that the present system of land distribution has to be brought at moderate level with well...

Status of health sector. (Pakistan)
August 1, 1997... Pakistan was not a healthy state to begin with. Its sickness began even before its birth. It inherited a legacy of sickness and suffering, a burden of high mortality and morbidity coupled with a poorly developed infrastructure to address the...

Health sector: still not on the right track. (Pakistan)
August 1, 1997... The characteristics of health sector in Pakistan are not much different from most other developing countries. At the time of independence, the country inherited a situation of insanitary environmental conditions, general scarcity of health...

Pakistan Radiation Services: pioneer in GAMMA sterilization.
August 1, 1997... Realizing the importance and potential of gamma irradiation technology and the benefits the medical and pharmaceutical industries would get out of it, it was decided by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission to establish such a facility under the name...

The pharmaceutical industry in Pakistan.(Industry Overview)
August 1, 1997... The Pharmaceutical Industry in Pakistan commenced its business operations a few years after the country came into existence. With the passage of time most of the multinational companies began manufacturing activities to cope with the requirement...

Current state of torture in Pakistan.
August 1, 1997... The history of the sub-continent is of bloodshed, and so is the history of country. When Pakistan was created in 1947 by the division of British India, the migration of millions of people across the borders caused the uprooting of innumerable...

Food science and technology and developing countries.
August 1, 1997... Food and nutrition problems of developing countries are among the most important and serious development problems of regions in Asia, Africa and Central and South America holding something like two-thirds of the total population of the world. It...

Group health insurance.
August 1, 1997... Health policy consists of various types of insurance plans. Some of which cover a specific kind of medical expenses, such as hospitalization expenses and others are broader in scope. This cover is being provided through the mechanism of either...

Leasing companies on KSE.
August 1, 1997... The leasing sector at present finances approximately 8 per cent of the total private sector fixed investment as compared with 6 per cent in the preceding year, indicating a strong growth. Lease financing currently comprises 0.7 per cent of GDP....

Constraints facing the leasing sector. (Pakistan)
August 1, 1997... Leasing, an emerging sector in the economy, has made steady progress in the last few years, the number of leasing companies having increased from six in 1990 to 28 in 1996 speaks for itself. The entire leasing sector has attained an aggregate...

Metal Formings: a group with new dimensions. (Metal Formings Ltd)(Company Profile)
August 1, 1997... Metal Formings (Pvt.) Ltd. serves the needs of the industry in the areas of quality and hygienic grade stainless steel fabrication. Since its establishment, Metal Formings has positioned itself well within its target market and has successfully...

Record production of edible oil. (Pakistan)
August 1, 1997... AGRICULTURE Higher crop targets have been fixed for 1998. Awami Tractor Scheme has been revived. Cotton production is estimated to be around 10 million bales almost 1.5 million bales more than the domestic requirements. Crop Targets: ...

Optimistic trends. (Pakistani stock exchange)
August 1, 1997... The KSE index of share prices in the first week of August shot up to 1933.26 showing a rise of 259.21 points over the index of 1674.05 in early July 1997. Aggregate market capitalisation stood at Rs.589.987 billion on August 4, 1997 showing a...