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Articles with tag: debt

Dubai Incorporated

Ibrahim M Khalil   Jul 7, 2009   interacts: 25

Those who have a stake in Dubai, employment and/or an apartment are the most argumentative. They want reassurance that one day soon things will be same as before with the exception of high rents.

Watching Poverty Grow

Rashid Malik   Jun 19, 2009   interacts: 185

The whole city of Karachi was without power for longer than 24 hours. Load-shedding of electricity for a few hours daily is the norm, all over the country, but consumers will see a minimum raise of one thousand rupees on their monthly bills.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Mutaal Mooquin   May 21, 2009   interacts: 6

Margaret Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in it.

South Asian Socialism

Musa Sami   May 12, 2006   interacts: 256

Who in the world is lending Uncle Sam all that money?... When Pakistanis, or Indians for that matter, come and sell their souls to the West, they all too often forget the reality from which they have come

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