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Dec

Suddenly Migrants with Skills are Wanted: New York Times

By DAMIEN CAVE AND CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE Published in The New York Times on November 27, 2021 Wealthy world dangles visas and residency to fill labor shortages As the global economy heats up and tries to put the pandemic aside, a battle for the young and able has begun. With fast-track visas and promises of permanent residency, […]

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Nov

Pakistan: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2021 Article IV Mission and Staff-Level Agreement on the Sixth Review under the Extended Fund Facility

Published in International Monetary Fund on November 21, 2021 A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, in the[…]

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Nov

Consumption habits & inflation

By Riaz Riazuddin Published in DAWN on November 22, 2021 GERMAN philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach said, “We are what we eat”. Let us look at what we are from this perspective. A treasure trove of information is available in the Household Integrated Economic Survey 2018-2019 published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). Our typical household spends about[…]

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