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FDI Follows Compliance: How Illegal Markets In Tobacco, Tea, And Consumer Goods Damage Pakistan’s Investment Case
Pakistan’s ability to attract sustained foreign direct investment depends less on headline incentives and more on whether investors believe the rules will be applied predictably, fairly, and consistently. Capital...
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Pakistan’s Shadow Tobacco Economy: The Rs. 400 Billion Tax Gap That Keeps Growing
Pakistan’s tobacco sector has become one of the most frequently cited examples of a...
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Pakistan’s Small-Car Market: Growth, Imports, And The Hidden Cost Of Non-Custom Paid Vehicles
Pakistan’s small-car market has become the country’s most telling test of whether regulation rewards...
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A US$5.89 Billion Opportunity At Risk: How Illegal Shoes Undercut Pakistan’s Industry
Pakistan’s footwear economy is larger than many policy conversations recognize. That...
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Pakistan’s Tyre Market, And The Cost Of Letting Illegal Supply Dominate
In Karachi’s Old Sabzi Mandi tyre market, enforcement teams have repeatedly...
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Rule Of Law As Economic Policy: Confronting Pakistan’s Illegal Trade Networks At Scale
Pakistan’s illegal trade problem has moved beyond isolated smuggling routes and...
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Tiles As A High-Risk Sector: How Production Monitoring And Track And Trace Can Close Tax Gaps And Protect Formal Industry
Pakistan’s tile sector has a profile that makes it both economically...
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Green Leaf Threshing: The Tobacco Supply Chain Chokepoint Where Track And Trace Can Deliver Real Compliance
Green Leaf Threshing (GLT) is the most concentrated, controllable chokepoint in...
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Textile Spinning Under Electronic Monitoring: Why Pakistan Needs End-To-End Traceability From Cotton Bales To Yarn Lots
Pakistan’s textile spinning sector sits at the beginning of the value...
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A High-Potential Sector Under Pressure: The Cost Of Smuggled And Counterfeit Cosmetics
Pakistan’s cosmetics and personal care market has grown into a large,...
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From iPhones To Drones: Why Pakistan’s Illegal Electronics Trade Is An Economic Security Risk
Pakistan’s illegal trade in electronics is not a niche border issue;...
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Raids, Seals, And Seizures: Why Pakistan’s New War On Illegal Trade Must Not Stop
Illegal trade in Pakistan is a structural economic and governance problem,...
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Taxed And Untaxed Pakistan: How Five Large Sectors Shape The Gap
Pakistan’s basic problem is not that there is no economic activity....
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Smuggled Fuel And The Price Of Pakistan’s Illegal POL Trade
Illegal trade in petroleum, oil, and lubricants (POL) has become one...
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Illegal Business Practices And Investor Confidence in Pakistan
Investor confidence in Pakistan is already fragile because of repeated macroeconomic...