Editor’s Note: The great chasm
The median age of Pakistan is less than 24 years. Ours is one of the youngest countries in the world, and one governed by...
Ego and insecurity (Editor’s Note)
Being the best and being good enough are not the same thing, a distinction that the students, faculty, and alumni of the Lahore University...
The government needs to stop embarrassing itself
The tragedy of the government of Pakistan is that they seem entirely unaware of just how embarrassingly asinine their ideas tend to be, particularly...
Editorial–Incentivising consumers for desired behaviour
The promise of digital banking is alluring. The realization so far has been elusive. Though the field might not exactly be dormant, it is...
Competition is overrated
Not the silver bullet many argue it is
Editor’s Note: The fourth factor
In his now seminal tome The Wealth of Nations, Scottish economist Adam Smith posited that there were three major factors of production in an...
Editors Note: Rich, yes, but how rich?
“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” J.Paul Getty
Forbes Magazine has an obsession with the world’s billionaires. The publication’s...
The miracle called the HBL PSL
The HBL PSL rose from unlikely beginnings to become a mainstay of the international franchise cricket calendar. In many ways it is a miracle that comes from belief. It must be emulated.
THE FIRST STEP TO SOLVING A PROBLEM
Dr. Daniel Ritz, President and CEO of PTCL and Jeff Daniels, the acclaimed American actor, seem to have more than their name in common....
Distorted incentives, distorted economy
There is a running theme across many of the stories we cover in this week’s issue of Profit: how distorted incentives can completely transform...
How not to hold businesses accountable
Business publications have a natural bias: we tend to be pro-capitalism, pro-free markets, and pro-entrepreneurship. What we at Profit try to do is not...
Why bother with ‘targets’?
Of all the bad habits the government of Pakistan has, perhaps one of the worst is the one picked up by the Ayub Administration...
Record inflation and the journey there
Little can be achieved from fixating on when the rot started to set in. What is needed is a focus on where we stand and what can now be done
The 13th idea
In the run up to the federal budget, there are many points of view in the market of ideas for the government to act...
A welcome rollback on coal-fired power
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement that Pakistan would seek to take a step back from its recent policy of promoting coal-fired power plants was...
