06

May

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 at 96.84 in March 2022 as compared […]

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27

Apr

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 large countries have seen dramatic declines in[…]

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25

Apr

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 up from the baseline of 2015,” according[…]

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