We have seen unprecedented growth in the digital economy over recent years. This shift has played a substantial role in disrupting and changing old business models to suit the needs of a modern era. From online transactions, social media marketing, and e-commerce websites, digital services are increasing and improving rapidly. As a consequence, more and…
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The term “Deep Work” has nothing to do with geographical depth or so-called intellectual/philosophical discourse. In fact, it is a much more simple concept. The phrase was coined by Cal Newport- a professor of Computer Sciences at Georgetown University, in his book titled “Deep Work”. Though the term is newly coined, it refers to a…
On the first of September 2020, Federal Minister Fawad Chaudhary announced a landmark decision by the cabinet. According to his tweet, Cabinet has approved the first license for the “industrial and medicinal use of Hemp..”.
Even though you still can not go out and purchase marijuana for recreational use, it is still an incredibly progressive…
In 2016, the world of incubators and accelerators broke the surface in Pakistan. Small businesses were cropping up regularly, owing to platforms that helped them actualize the ideas that were being visualized. From Plan X, an incubator at the famous Arfa Kareem Tower, to NIC, an incubator housed in different cities in Pakistan, many young…
In 2018, the South Korean Supreme court ruled that a number of Japanese companies must pay reparations to the workers or their descendants for the time they were forced to work for them during the late colonization period. This sparked a raging trade war between two of the biggest economies in all of Asia.
As a…
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The vote breakdown of Brexit is a telling tale in itself; majority of south part of UK and Wales voted to leave the EU while the northern counterparts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, together with some smatterings of vote from the south, supported the stance to remain in the EU. England and Wale’s comparatively…
In the 1990s, across the United States of America (USA) crime rates dropped, across every state without exception. Over the years, many academics have come up with explanations on why this mysterious decline in crime started on such a massive scale. There are broadly two sides to this discussion, one which attributes the drop in…
Reading Time: 5 minutes akistan as a nation is ‘Food Secure.’ However, the presence of excess food does not really mean that the populace is able to successfully access this food. Poverty, poor management of resources and not enough modernization has left millions malnourished and under the constant risk of…
Reading Time: 5 minutes While debt, in general, may not be all that bad and many countries borrow a massive amount of money from abroad, it may not be ‘good debt’ if it is taken to ease existing expenditures such as a fiscal deficit or to pay for imports. If…
Innovative startups often play a key function in developing countries like Pakistan. There are a variety of consumer needs that often remain unaddressed by conventional models of business, which then creates large spaces in the market for innovation and creativity. These gaps are often identified and filled by motivated and innovative entrepreneurs, who thrive at…