Pakistan has proposed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) establish a multilateral framework on investment facilitation. Seventy other countries have supported the initiative, which will be considered at the next WTO ministerial conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2020. In preparation, a high-level forum was held in Astana on 28 September 2018. Pakistan’s participant at the forum was our Graduate Institute’s Visiting Professor, Khalil Hamdani.
Published in Business Recorder on October 07, 2026 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan accounts for 48 percent of the extreme poor (USD3-a-day) in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (MENAAP) region, with the country’s poverty rate surging by 6.4 percentage points between 2018-19 and 2024-25, despite the country having emerged as one of the region’s economies with potential […]
Published in The Express Tribune on August 10, 2026 ISLAMABAD: The federal government has sought provincial input on a proposed national framework to reduce poverty, with Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation Pir Syed Imran Ahmed Shah saying three provinces have responded positively while the fourth is yet to reply. Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad, the[…]
