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.
By SHAHRAM HAQ Published in The Express Tribune on April 29, 2026 LAHORE: Mounting external vulnerabilities, rising oil prices, and a prolonged decline in investment are pushing Pakistan’s economy towards slower growth and higher poverty, economists warned at the 19th Annual Conference on Management of the Pakistan Economy, hosted by the Lahore School of Economics. Key findings […]
By Waqar Wadho Published in Dawn on April, 20, 2026 PAKISTAN’S unemployment rate has hovered around six to seven per cent for nearly three decades. Policymakers cite it, donors reproduce it, and policy conversations move on (at least until the next Labour Force Survey). A persistently modest unemployment rate, by any standard reading, signals a healthy labour[…]
