Economic Review articles from November 2000

Economic Review archives from November 2000

New Industry Study: - silicon and ferrosilicon.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Silicon follows Aluminium Alloys and Chemical Sector Roskill Information Services Ltd., has published a new report which examines the silicon and ferrosilicon industries. The Economics of Silicon and Ferrosilicon (10th edition 2000) says...

INDUSTRY.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP) will disburse Rs. 200 million during the current financial year for the development of poultry industry. This allocation is nearly double of the amount disbursed over the last three years. The...

NEW PROJECTS.(Power plants)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
November 1, 2000... The Chashma Nuclear Power Plant (CHASUPP) was handed over to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). The agreement of provisional acceptance of the plant as signed by Mr. Zhao Hong. Sr....

PRIVATISATION.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Chairman PC, Altaf M. Saleem said that PTCL is now ready for marketing and soft marketing by its Financial Advisor Goldman Sachs was in progress. He said that serious buyers around the world had expressed their keen interest in the...

FOREIGN TRADE.(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Pakistan would earn $35 million foreign exchange through export of 2,500 tonnes of milk powder. The government has decided to export 2, 500 tonnes milk powder out of its total production of 26 billion litre capacity to earn valuable foreign...

ENERGY.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... The USA (General Electric Capital Corporation), UK (Central Power Ltd.) and Pakistan (Hasan Associated Ltd.). This is the third power plant completed in the private sector to meet growing demand of the country. One is 1292 MW completed at a...

Sitara Chemical Industries Limited.(Company Profile)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... PRODUCT DATA SHEET Sitara Chemical Industries Ltd. is one of the major entities of Sitar a Group of Industries. The company was incorporated in 1981 and its 1st chlor Alkali plant (Mercury technology based) started commercial production in...

Manufacturing Sector in Pakistan.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Deletion Policy A comprehensive deletion policy was announced by the Government in 1987 with broad objectives of attaining self-reliance in the engineering sector, ensuring transfer of technology and developing linkage between various...

Quality Management Practices in Pakistani Organizations.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... A special culture evolves through people equipped with TQM tools, skills, and commitment. These companies focus on involvement and mobilization of all employees rather than any one person or department. Few companies fall under this category in...

Tobacco and Tobacco Industry in Pakistan.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... "A lone man's companion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's sleep, and a chilly man's fire..... there's no herb like it under the canopy of heaven". Charles Kingsley No less than 50 species of botanical genus...

Crop Production Better this Year.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
November 1, 2000... AGRICULTURE Pakistan is likely to achieve 10 million bales target of cotton this year as there is a bumper cotton crop in Punjab and Sindh province. A target of 8 million bales has been set for Punjab while two million bales will be...

Phosphatic Fertilizer Industry.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Pakistan has already achieved self-sufficiency in nitrogenous fertilizer urea that uses natural gas as feed stock and altogether meeting 80 per cent of its total requirements of all fertilizers the soil needs indigenously....

Chemical Industry in Pakistan.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
November 1, 2000... At present there are nearly 30 Chemical companies having the total paid-up Capital of Rs.1.7 billion. Most of them have shown remarkable progress in their sales in the recent years such as Fauji Fertilizer, ICI Pakistan, Engro Chemical, Dawood...

New Chemical Projects.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
November 1, 2000... * Basic chemicals also known as Heavy chemicals such as acids, alkalies, salts and organic chemicals. * Chemical products to be used in further manufacture such as man-made fibres, plastic materials crude animal and vegetable oils, dry...

Corporate Chemical Companies.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Out of27 Chemical Companies on the list of KSE, 13 have declared cash/bonus shares during the year under review. The highest dividend of 100 per cent (cash) was declared by Dawood Hercules, followed by 80 per cent (cash) by Fauji Fertilizer, 65...

Paint Industry in Pakistan.
November 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Local paint industry operates both in organised and unorganised sectors. The data regarding production and number of units of the unorganised sector is not available, therefore, it is difficult to have complete data about the...

Who's Who in Chemical Industry in Pakistan.
November 1, 2000... Munnawar Hamid - Chairman & Chief Executive ICI Pakistan Limited Mr. Munnawar Hamid is Chairman and Chief Executive of ICI Pakistan Ltd. After graduating with Honours from the Universities of Punjab and Cambridge, he joined ICI Pakistan in...

ICI Pakistan Limited.(Company Profile)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... The company was incorporated in Pakistan in 1951 and is engaged in the manufacture of pure terephthalic acid, polyester staple fibre, POY chips, soda ash, paints, speciality chemicals, sodium bicarbonate, polyurethanes, formulation of...

Caustic Soda Industry - Problems and its Remedies.(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
November 1, 2000... * Caustic Soda is an important heavy chemical, which is used, in wide range of Industries, of which the major user is the soap in which the content of caustic soda is stated to be roughly 15 per cent. * Against a capacity of 158,700 tonnes...

Information Technology Greater Scopes for Pakistan.
November 1, 2000... It is interesting to note here that in defending our motherland, we are maintaining a ratio of 3:1 against India whereas if we don't pay due attention toward development of this is technology, it would be most difficult for us to maintain this...

Kalabagh Dam.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Kalabagh Dam site on the Indus is about 100 miles Southwest of Islamabad and 16 miles upstream of the present Jinnah Barrage at the confluence of the Indus and Soan rivers. With a height of 260 feet and a length of 500 feet, it will cover...

PAKISTAN BASIC FACTS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Official Name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan Father of the Nation: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Head of the State: Mr. Mohammad Rafiq Tarar, President Chief Executive/Head of Government: General Pervez Musharraf Capital:...

E-Commerce/E-Business Definition, Scopes and Uses.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Within this E-Commerce or E-business world, there is a wide range of jobs from front-end customer interface to software support and customer relation to backend, hardware and architecture design. Definition There is no single precise...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
November 1, 2000... Psychological Warfare and Palestinians In the rapidly shrinking global village while there are positive elements there are also two dark shadows. One is the World Trade Order, which is actually causing grave harm to the nascent industrial...