FINANCIAL INCLUSION [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n recent years, financial inclusion is one area where stakeholders of the financial ecosystem have been focusing lately…
Year: 2017
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan is a country where up to 40 percent of its over 207 million population lives below poverty line –…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan got independence from the British Raj in 1947, but a review of the economic progress of over 70 years…
CPEC related projects can help bring sluggish economy back to life [dropcap]W[/dropcap]orld Bank has recently alerted that macroeconomic risks in…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ccording to World Bank’s forecasts, owing to improved security and energy supply situation, economic growth in Pakistan is expected to…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f anyone visits hospitals and educational institutions operating in the public sector in Pakistan, highly depleted conditions establish two points:…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he persistent downward trend of the exports was substantially short of imports. This is something that needs urgent attention. Pakistan’s…
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]onstituting merely 2 percent of the country’s GDP, the real estate sector can still grow and account for 5 percent…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan is the world’s fourth largest cotton producing country but power and gas cuts have stopped exporters from producing their…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan and Indonesia are two friendly, brotherly countries enjoying historical deep rooted, time tested and all weathered friendship. Both countries…
Pakistan takes third spot in real estate investment in Dubai [dropcap]P[/dropcap]akistan has emerged as the third largest real estate investor…
Interview with Mian Zahid Hussain, (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) – President, Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum [box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]PROFILE: Mian Zahid…
Interview with Dr. Ayub Mehar — a leading economist of Pakistan [box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]PROFILE: Dr. Ayub Mehar is…
PAKISTAN MARKET INDICATORS EXCHANGE RATES Currency Activity Friday 8-Sep Friday 15-Sep Friday 22-Sep Thursday 28-Sep Friday 6-Oct Friday 13-Oct DOLLAR…
PAKISTAN TRADES (Million US $) Period Exports (BOP) Growth Rate Imports (BOP) Growth Rate Balance of Trade 1974-75 977.59596 -4.1287766…
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ising international oil and other commodity prices remains a concern. These prices are predicted to move in upward direction, which…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he proper implementation of fiscal and monetary policy can help reduce cyclical fluctuations and be able for the economy of…
PSX TOUCHES THE LOWEST FOR 2017 The stock market underwent a relentless battering in the last trading session of the…
MARKET REVIEW During the week, stock market shed 1,465pts to close at 39,847pts, down by 3.5%WoW on the back of…
FOREIGN BUYING FAILED TO BOOST INDEX AS STOCKS TOUCH ONE-YEAR LOW AND FALL BELOW 40,000 SUMMARY The KSE-100 Index lost…
INDEX POSTS NOTABLE DECLINE AS BEARISHNESS PERSISTS OVER SHABBY ECONOMIC SCENE The growing concerns about the health of the economy…
PAKISTAN: GOVT APPROVES PROGRAM TO PREPARE 1 MILLION FREELANCERS IN PAKISTAN: The Board of Directors of Ignite, National Technology Fund formerly…
MALABAR GOLD OPENS 3 STORES IN A DAY IN UAE AND KUWAIT Malabar Gold and Diamonds, one among the Big…
OIL PRICES SURGE ON CHINESE IMPORT BOOST AND MIDEAST TENSIONS Oil prices firmed on Friday as bullish news from strong…
MAQTA GATEWAY, A DIGITAL PLATFORM LAUNCHED Abu Dhabi Ports has launched Maqta Gateway, a digital platform which provides digital services…
$2BN LOANS GRANTED EX-POST FACTO APPROVAL The federal cabinet has regularised nearly $2 billion foreign commercial loans that the government…
INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY RAISES RS 660 CRORE THROUGH BONDS New Delhi, Oct 13: The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI)…
[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ONG-RANGE PLANNING THE FUTURE REQUIRES NOT JUST HAPPEN IF ONE WISHES HARD ENOUGH. The future requires decisions – now. It…
WORLD SIGHT DAY: 80PC OF BLINDNESS CURABLE Once a year, on the second Thursday of October, World Sight Day is…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is one of the best known lagging indicators. The consumer price index expresses the current prices of a basket…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he balance of trade compares the value of a country’s exports of goods and services against its imports. When exports…
[dropcap]K[/dropcap]ibor rate is the average interest rate at which term deposits are offered between prime banks in the Pakistani wholesale…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n economic indicator is a statistic about an economic activity. Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predictions of…
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]emographic is the study of a population based on factors such as age, race and sex, among others. Governments, corporations…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nflation is a sustained increase in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy. When the…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n interest rate is the cost of borrowing money, or conversely, the income earned from lending money. Interest rates are…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Anna Bruce-Lockhart Editor, World Economic Forum[/box] They walk among us, dead-eyed, with heavy tread. They are…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Information This entry was posted on October 6, 2017 by fweyzig in English posts.[/box] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Netherlands…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Alexander Starritt Editor, Apolitical[/box] You probably don’t realise how much your life is affected by the…
How Emerging Technologies Are Changing the Risk Landscape [dropcap]O[/dropcap]ver the last year, the World Economic Forum project Mitigating Risks in the…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rob Wilson, Sheffield Hallam University; Dan Plumley, Sheffield Hallam University, and Kieran Maguire, University of Liverpool[/box]…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rob Gowers, Anglia Ruskin University[/box] [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Arsene Wenger was named as the new manager of Arsenal…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Peter Holmes, University of Sussex and Michael Gasiorek, University of Sussex[/box] [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is commonplace to…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Asghar Zaidi, University of Southampton[/box] [dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne of the central arguments in support of pro-immigration policies in…