At the closing event of a five-year (2013 to 2018) Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH), a service component of USAID/Pakistan’s MCH Program conducted at the Najmuddin Auditorium last week and attended by among other dignitaries by midwives and mothers from far-flung, remote areas of districts like Tharparkar, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Ghotki, narrated their stories and said that LHWs, gynecologists and District Health Officers (DHOs) trained by MCHIP helped in lowering maternal and infant mortality by teaching them how to control infections, perform safe deliveries and prevent newborns deaths by using cheap but effective medicines and techniques. The attendees were informed…
Author: K.M. A. Naqshbandi
World Economic Forum’s Human Capital Report 2017 reveals that 62 per cent of human capital has now been developed globally and only 25 nations have been able to tap about 70 percent of their human capital. While most countries vary between 50 and 70 percent, 14 countries remain below 50 percent. Pakistan has been ranked almost at the bottom — 125 out of 130 that were tested against four key areas of human capital development; Capacity, largely determined by past investment in formal education; Deployment, the application and accumulation of skills through work; Development, the formal education of the next…
Agricultural sector plays a strategic role in economic development of a country. Better agricultural output and productivity contributes substantially to an overall economic development. In short agriculture is the backbone of an economy which provides bread to mankind and raw material to industries. In Pakistan agriculture contributes about 20 percent to GDP and a brute majority to employment. Agriculture sector recorded a growth of 3.46 percent in fiscal year 2017 as compared to the growth of 0.27 in the preceding year despite the conservative method of production so the growth rate is not all that bad. But then today’s global…
Dr. Abdul Basit, pioneer of private university, stressed on the need and challenges of private-public partnership in education Public-private partnership (PPP) has become a buzzword in new development strategies. It is being publicized as a ground-breaking idea to encourage the involvement of the private sector in national development. It is more vehemently advocated in countries where public resources are insufficient to meet the development needs. PPP is already being adopted in several infrastructure development sectors, such as the development of airports, railways, roads, and so on. But the initiatives are no longer confined to these; they are being extended to…
As the year ended amidst political uncertainties and disruption in financial management due to the absence of a full-fledged Finance Minister the challenges ahead for Pakistan’s economy has touched unprecedented height and therefore, requires a very careful planning and cautious scheduling of disbursement. Due to the fall in Rupee the economy has suffered. It may be mentioned here that when the central bank withdrew its support on December 13th, Pakistani rupee was hit hard, adversely affecting the currency. Pakistani rupee has always remained between 104 and 105 per dollar since 2015, but in last three sessions it lost its value…
Though the growth remained slow in the global production of meats, according to a UN report, the poultry sector outstripped other meats by a factor of five. Poultry industry analyst Terry Evans reports on figures that suggest that well over a third of the 320 million tonnes of global meat production was poultry. Global production of all meats is expected to show an increase of only 0.2 percent in the coming years, but poultry meat output is forecast to rise by almost 1 percent coming close to 116 million tonnes, according to the latest Global Information and Early Warning System…
Interview with Mohammed Hanif Ajari — Director Strategic and Supply Chain Development, Getz Pharma [box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]Profile Mohammed Hanif Ajari Vice President of Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan and advisor to the board of South Asian Federation of Accountants is currently working as Director Strategic and Supply Chain Development in Getz Pharma, a leading pharmaceutical company. He did his MPhil in supply chain management, fellow member of institute of supply management (USA) and also chartered member of charter institute of logistics and transport. He has recognized and approved 15 thesis in the field of business…