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Published in Dawn on October, 07, 2026 ISLAMABAD: Projecting Pakistan’s economic growth at 3.8 per cent and fiscal deficit at 3.5pc for the current fiscal year, the World Bank on Tuesday said the country was home to almost half of the extremely poor population in the entire Middle East, North […]
Growth transition
Published in Dawn on October, 04, 2026 PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s recent call to move from stabilisation to growth, job creation and export promotion was overdue. But the danger lies in treating the shift as a change of direction rather than a change in the quality of economic policy. Mr[…]
WB wants swift action on reform measures
By Khaleeq Kiani Published in Dawn on October, 03, 2026 ISLAMABAD: The World Bank on Friday called on the government to expedite the implementation of policy actions under its $20 billion economic reform partnership to harmonise general sales tax (GST), provincial agriculture and property taxes, and remove regulatory constraints to[…]
Nature’s revenge?
By Fariya Hashmat Published in The News on September 29, 2026 In 1970, British chemist James Lovelock proposed an idea about Planet Earth that challenged conventional thinking. He called it the ‘Gaia Hypothesis’, stating that our planet is not just a dead rock with life on it; the Earth is[…]







