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SepCartel dreams
By Asad Rahim Khan Published in Dawn on September 28, 2021 OUR story starts in the spring of ’68, in the 10th year of our field marshal Ayub, when economist Mahbub-ul-Haq made a speech in Karachi. Less than two dozen industrial groups had become “the ministry of finance for the […]
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SepPak rupee – not out of the woods yet
By Faraz Ahmed Published in The Express Tribune on September 20, 2021 KARACHI: There has been a recent slide in Pakistani rupee against the basket of main currencies, mainly the US dollar, where the rout intensified lately, hitting a multi-year low of Rs169 in the forex market before the State[…]
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SepA decade of change & stagnation
By Umair Javed Published in Dawn on September 20, 2021 LAST week, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics released findings from the Labour Force Survey of 2018-19. LFS is probably Pakistan’s best sample survey dataset on a range of important developmental indicators, going back at least 38 years. The LFS is[…]
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SepJoblessness jumped in 2018-19: labour survey
By Nasir Jamal Published in Dawn on September 17, 2021 LAHORE: The country’s unemployment rate jumped from 5.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 6.9pc in 2018-19, the first year of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in power, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on[…]
