简介：Special report

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“The Economist: Special report”的内容更新

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更新：约4篇/周，最后更新11 天前

The Economist: Special report

The economy: Lights off

kamran, a tailor in rawalpindi, is enjoying a little boom. he and his staff—two men perched on a platform above the counter in his tiny shop—have increased production fivefold this year, to five or six suits a day. they charge 300 rupees (about $3.30) each, with the customers supplying the material. the secret of their success is simple. they have... (11 天前)

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The Economist: Special report

Water: Going with the flow

arid debates for millions suffering the misery of the past two years’ floods it must seem the cruellest of jokes, but pakistan is one of the world’s most arid countries. average annual rainfall is less than 240mm, and the total availability of water per person has fallen from about 5,000 cubic metres in the 1950s to about 1,100 now, just above th... (11 天前)

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The Economist: Special report

Perilous journey

early last year the pakistan business council, a lobby group of local conglomerates and multinationals, drew up a “national economic agenda”, setting out some desperately needed reforms. it took out newspaper advertisements to press its case and made presentations to the four biggest parties in parliament. rather to everyone’s surprise it achieve... (11 天前)

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The Economist: Special report

A taste of Hunny

striking it lucky the hunny school, a private institution occupying two cramped buildings in rawalpindi’s back streets, seems a happy place. the boys and girls packed into its little classrooms look pleased to be there. some look much older than their classmates. they have a lot of catching up to do. many were street children whose parents could n... (11 天前)

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The Economist: Special report

Foreign policy: State of vulnerability

to mumbai, with hate viewed from islamabad, the history of relations between america and pakistan has been a saga of serial american betrayals. in the 1950s the two countries were close friends. yet when pakistan went to war with india in 1965, america stayed neutral. nor was richard nixon much help when east pakistan seceded to become bangladesh i... (11 天前)

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The Economist: Special report

Politics: Captain’s innings

“he’s the man!” purrs the cosmopolitan young media-studies graduate at punjab university in lahore. a group of a dozen or so contemporaries broadly shares her enthusiasm for imran khan, the rising star of pakistani politics. even an angry sceptic, who sees him as “the new blue-eyed boy of the establishment”, admits that he would vote for him.po... (11 天前)

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The Economist: Special report

Religion: In the shadow of the mosque

visibly more pious the clean-shaven, middle-aged academic in lahore is under fire from his wife and his bushy-bearded 20-year-old son, a student. last year he completed the haj, the pilgrimage to mecca that every muslim is expected to make at least once. now, after a lifetime of weekly attendance at the mosque, on fridays, he is told by his family ... (11 天前)

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