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NovPakistan amidst an eight billion planet
By Dr Luay Shabaneh Published in The Express Tribune on November 15, 2022 The world’s population hits the edge of eight billion this month, on 15 November 2022. Many questions and ideas come to the minds of demographers, development practitioners, economists, planners and politicians. Some of the questions include the […]
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NovIT sector for ease of doing business
By Usman Hanif Published in The Express Tribune on November 11, 2022 KARACHI: Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) has called on the government to enhance the ease of doing business in the country to increase the much-touted information technology (IT) exports. “While the Federal Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications[…]
Remittances fall 8.6pc to $9.9bn in July-October
By Our Correspondent Published in The News on November 12, 2022 KARACHI: On Friday, the central bank data showed that remittances from Pakistanis working abroad dropped by 8.6 percent to $9.9 billion in the first four months of the current fiscal year. The country received $10.8 billion in remittances from[…]
More than half of all healthcare spending ‘out of pocket’
By Mubarak Zeb Khan Published in DAWN on November 08, 2022 ISLAMABAD: The share of people paying for healthcare expenses on their own, or out of pocket (OOP) made up 52.8 percent of the total health expenditure in 2019-20, up slightly went from 51.7pc in 2017-18, the National Health Account[…]
