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NovBy Rashid Amjad Published in Dawn on November 14, 2025 THE recent World Bank Pakistan Development Update, released at the end of October 2025, claims that poverty fell in 2024-25. This assertion raises troubling questions, especially since Pakistan’s poverty assessment report, published just a few months earlier by the World Bank, presented a very grim picture. It […]
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NovBy SHAMSUL ISLAM KHAN Published in The Express Tribune on November 17, 2025 KARACHI: The strong rupee is luring imports, impacting domestic industry competitiveness and hurting exports. For the past three years, the government has been celebrating rising home remittances as its politico-economic success that has helped stabilise the rupee and achieve a current account surplus, but[…]
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NovBy Usman Hanif Published in The Express Tribune on November 08, 2025 KARACHI: Overseas Pakistanis sent home $3.42 billion in October 2025, marking an 11.9% year-on-year increase, offering some relief to Pakistan’s fragile external account at a time when the trade deficit has ballooned to $12.6 billion, driven by a surge in imports. This rise reflects continued[…]
