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[…]
IMF puts five demands before Shehbaz Sharif govt
By Mehtab Haider Published in The News on April 21, 2022 ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet Wednesday expressed serious concerns on the economic situation of the country, with Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail telling the press later on that the PTI government had laid down ‘atom bombs’ instead of[…]