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Pakistan may need to find alternative financing sources

Published in The Express Tribune on April 12, 2023 WASHINGTON: A combination of sticky high interest rates and lacklustre global growth could push a number of emerging economies that are facing soaring refinancing needs into debt difficulties next year. Many weaker economies navigated the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine with financing aid […]

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Food insecurity

By Samar Quddus Published in The News on April 12, 2023 The dozens of recently released videos that show deadly stampedes outside food distribution centres are a clear indication of hunger and food insecurity in the country. That these cases occur in the holy month of Ramazan – known as the month of charity – is shocking.[…]

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Presentation on “The 2023 Digital Census and Other Data Sources” by Mr. Chaudhury Sajid Rasul, Director General, Punjab Bureau of Statistics at GIDS on 22nd March 2023

Mr. Chaudhury Sajid Rasul, Director General of the Punjab Bureau of Statistics visited the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lahore School of Economics on 22nd March 2023. His presentation was based on the 7th Population and Housing Census of Pakistan by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Mr. Rasul presented the methodology used in designing the digital[…]

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