RDA inflows continue to rise, cross $4b
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 […]
REER remains supportive
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[…]
The world is becoming coloured and less Christian
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[…]
Modest progress on SDGs
By Khaleeq Kiani Published in DAWN on April 25, 2022 Pakistan’s first Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Status Report (2021) is out and the country’s overall progress on SDGs is modest. “Overall, Pakistan’s SDGs (composite) index score has increased from 53.11 in 2015 to 63.49 in 2020 i.e. 19.5 per cent[…]









