Economic fallout: Travel bans, lockdowns shrink job opportunities for expats
By Waqas Ahmed Published in The Express Tribune on February 01, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The pandemic-induced travel bans and lockdowns have direly reduced job opportunities for […]
Rethink public finance rules and live with much higher debt, IMF says
Published in The News on January 29, 2021 LONDON: Most advanced economies can live with much higher levels of public debt after the coronavirus crisis,[…]
21st century crises demand new economic understanding, say top economists
Published in oxford university Leading economists, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Argentina’s Minister of Economy Martin Guzman, as well as academics from Oxford, Yale, Columbia,[…]
Pakistan can take IT exports to $10b
Published in The Express Tribune on January 19, 2021 KARACHI: Pakistan has the potential to enhance its IT exports to $10 billion from the current[…]
The rise and rise of remittances
By Mohiuddin Aazim Published in DAWN on January 18, 2021 Remittances remained above the $2 billion mark in December 2020 for the seventh month in[…]
International Migration amid a World in Crisis
By Joseph Chamie Prepared for The Center for Migration Studies Executive Summary This article comprehensively examines international migration trends and policies in light of the[…]
PM Imran Khan thanks overseas Pakistanis for ‘record-breaking’ month of remittances
Published in The News on January 08, 2021 Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that Pakistan had had a “record-breaking” month for December as far as[…]
SBP Launches Survey of Overseas Pakistanis to Assess Recent Trends and Prospects for Remittances
Published in External Relations Department on December 24, 2020 State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in collaboration with Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives (MPD&SI)[…]
Growth versus stability
By Rashid Amjad Published in DAWN on January 04, 2021 THE consensus amongst the economic policymaking triumvirate in government — finance, planning and State Bank[…]