Emerging markets require special attention. Standard models don’t apply, conventional wisdom doesn’t work and traditional thinking can quickly land you in uncharted and troubled territory. Pakistan as an economy is not that different from other emerging markets. Like others we have our own personal challenges and demons. However given our special needs and situation…
Author: Jawwad
Hack or not?
Even money that this is an elaborate hack? Reactions. Brother Vickram?
Pakistan Risk Review…
In one short month we have now sent two major publications out to the printer. The first (the Blue Screen of Death, retitled Reboot) was easy. I have been working on that book for about 8 years now, and two editions later rewriting a key chapter after close to a decade of heady involvement was…
Foreword to the second edition
What a difference three years and an economic cycle make! When the Blue Screen first came out in March 2006, we certainly didn’t expect the reactions or the reviews. Three years later it is being used as a text book as well as background material for case studies at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),…
Last words
Food for thought: We export about 230 million US dollars worth of produce every month. That is cereal, grains, fruits, vegetables, seafood, meat products and other allied food groups. For years we couldn’t get the storage, packaging and distribution right. Add two nationwide wholesale distribution chains pulling a Costco in Karachi and Lahore and you…
Happy Birthday Maestro
May you have many more, Teeth. Not to mention an absolutely scandalous birthday bash. Don’t forget to post the pics J
You were saying, a rejoinder four…
Look here and here. There is more behind the G-20 and Nato protests than these selective images show case. The violence is hard to ignore but it overshadows the cause, the concept, the organization or the impact. So if I was the only source of information you had, my commentary the basis of your opinion,…
Myths about Pakistan or an infrastructure rejoinder, three
Jehan did a post on This too is Pakistan, in October 2008. At the peak of distrust, despair and negativity coming out by the buckets in that month, she went out to highlight some of the many things that are right with this country. I didn’t get round to doing a follow up but Post…
Stop press
2nd Edition of the blue screen of death has now gone to the press. Expected release date, somewhere in the next 8 weeks. You are looking at the million dollars, 4 color, fully automated Mitsubishi printing work horse in Singapore that will be responsible for bringing this fine piece of scholarship out in the form…
Back from upgrade hell…
Beige is back. Comments are on. Still need to figure out a way to get rid of the dope on this blog.