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.
Published in Dawn on October, 07, 2026 ISLAMABAD: Projecting Pakistan’s economic growth at 3.8 per cent and fiscal deficit at 3.5pc for the current fiscal year, the World Bank on Tuesday said the country was home to almost half of the extremely poor population in the entire Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan-Pakistan (Menaap) region. “Menaap is […]
Published in Dawn on October, 04, 2026 PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s recent call to move from stabilisation to growth, job creation and export promotion was overdue. But the danger lies in treating the shift as a change of direction rather than a change in the quality of economic policy. Mr Sharif said macroeconomic stability has been restored[…]
