Oil Jumps As Opec Agrees To Modest Output Hikes Oil prices soared on Friday after oil producers agreed to modest crude output increases to compensate for losses in production at a time of rising global demand. The Organization of the …

A Social Ecologist For me the tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation and change was central to society and civilization. I consider myself a “social ecologist,” concerned with man’s man-made environment the way the natural …

Pakistan Cables Sponsored Gold Medals Awarded To Giki Graduates 2018 Pakistan Cables Limited, sponsored gold medals to top position holders of the GIKI’s Class of 2018. Syed Ashhab Ur Rahman Iqbal Ahmed (BS in Electronic Engineering) and Abdul Hussain (BS …

Kibor rate is the average interest rate at which term deposits are offered between prime banks in the Pakistani wholesale money market or interbank market. KIBOR as a benchmark, to encourage transparency  and improve management of the market risk undertaken …

An economic indicator is a statistic about an economic activity. Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predictions of future performance. Economic indicators include various indices, earnings reports, and economic summaries.   Production Of Selected Large-Scale Manufacturing Items (During …

It was only in January that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was celebrating the strength of the global economy, heralding “the broadest synchronised global growth upsurge since 2010”. How quickly things have changed. Argentina has since sought a bailout from the IMF, Turkey is …

China’s cities are more competitive than in any other region of the world, according to a new report from consultants AT Kearney. The number of Chinese cities included in the 2018 Global Cities Index has soared from seven in 2008 to 27 …

It’s been nearly 80 years since British economists James Meade and Richard Stone devised a method of national income accounting that would become the global standard. Today, we call it a country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Their method was intended to …

As the energy sector has become more globalized and increasingly complex in its reliance on software components, the supply-chain risk has evolved and expanded. While energy sector cyber supply-chain issues have been recognized and studied for several years, they still …