Profit Economics Roundup: What’s up with the fuel adjustment in electric bills?
Ali Aftab Saeed talks to Profit Editor Khurram Husain about the fuel adjustment in electricity bills, the prospect of a massive number...
Profit Economics Class: Phillips Curve
In this episode of Profit Economics Class we take a look at a theory that deals with inflation and unemployment. A theory...
Not trash: the growing business of e-waste | Profit Urdu
One man’s trash (laptop) is another man’s gold (found on some old processors.) We look at the surprisingly large business of e-waste...
Profit Roundup: Why are the fuel prices STILL going up?
This week, Ali Aftab Saeed talks to Profit Editor Khurram Husain about why the forex traders are, counterintuitively, buying dollars at the...
The attack of the SUVs
SUVs are replacing sedans as the automobile of choice in Pakistan, but will new entrants be able to defend the segment they...
Global anxiety over Chinese real estate crisis
The world's second largest economy might have a real estate crisis looming. If that reverberates over to it's globally-wired-in financial sector, the...
Profit Roundup: The rupee stabilises. For good?
Ali Aftab Saeed talks to Profit Editor Khurram Husain about the recent appreciation in the value of the rupee, the saga of...
The surprisingly large business of reselling online stores’ unwanted goods | Profit Urdu
Returned goods are certainly a pain point for online retailers. But they certainly are a tremendous business opportunity for those who want...
The rupee fights back?
Profit Editor Khurram Husain talks about the recent strengthening of the rupee against the dollar. And also, that we’re not quite out...
Solar Spain: a cautionary tale about subsidies | Profit Urdu
A subsidy-based incentive program for solar power generation in Spain went a little too well. Unfortunately for the citizens who had invested...
Profit’s take: The FT article, Arif Naqvi and Sheikh Nayhaan
A Financial Times article has taken Pakistani political discussion by storm. Profit’s Ariba Shahid talks to Abdullah Niazi about the context and...
The Big Short: inside the exchange rate volatility in Pakistan
Pakistan Today Editor Yousaf Nizami talks to Profit Banking Sector Analyst Ariba Shahid about her story about the current volatility seen in...
The folly of relief | Profit Urdu
Uzair Younis makes a compelling cases against the economics (and politics) of relief.
On the verge of another global food crisis? | Profit Urdu
On top of the global energy crisis - and in part because of it - we might be looking at a global...
Microfinance Banks on the verge of crisis? | Profit Magazine
The sector is sitting on a ticking bomb in the shape of loans at the risk of default, a situation triggered by...