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JulPakistan records 13-year low CAD
By Salman Siddiqui Published in The Express Tribune on July 20, 2024 KARACHI: Pakistan posted a surprising 13-year low current account deficit (CAD) of $681 million (or 0.2% of GDP) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. This was achieved through economic engineering, which partially compromised growth by controlling […]
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JulPakistan 27th in global population growth
By Shahbaz Rana Published in The Express Tribune on July 19, 2024 ISLAMABAD: The country’s population growth rate has accelerated to the 27th fastest in the world and its 79% people are young under the age of 40 years, revealed findings of the 7th Population Census that the government officially[…]
Census 2023: Urban spurt, educational crisis and going ‘off-grid’
By Abdul Moiz Malik Published in Dawn on July 19, 2024 KARACHI: Almost a year after the Council of Common Interests (CCI) “unanimously” approved the results of the 2023 digital census, the country’s top data body has released detailed results of the enumeration exercise. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)[…]
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JulBeating the Heat in Pakistan
Published in earthobservatory.nasa.gov on May 16, 2024 As heat waves become more intense due to climate change, people in cities all over the world are facing more challenging summer conditions. Among them is Lahore, a city in northern Pakistan where only about ten percent of the population has access to[…]
