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By Salman Siddiqui Published in The Express Tribune on May 10, 2022 KARACHI: Foreign currency inflows on account of Roshan Digital Accounts (RDAs) from overseas Pakistanis have continued to rise, as they surpassed the $4 billion mark in April 2022, despite global political and economic instabilities – including Pakistan. RDA inflows increased $245 million to $4.17 billion […]

By Salman Siddiqui Published in The Express Tribune on May 03, 2022 KARACHI: Pakistan’s real effective exchange rate (REER) – the value of the country’s currency against a basket of currencies of global trading partners – has remained supportive towards encouraging exports and discouraging imports. “The REER index was recorded at 96.84 in March 2022 as compared[…]

By Shahid Javed Burki Published in The Express Tribune on April 25, 2022 The world changes all the time. Change occurs not only because the economies grow and their structures change. Populations also increase but at very different rates across the world. For the first time in human history, several large countries have seen dramatic declines in[…]