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On 18th August 2018, Imran Khan, Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has formally taken oath of Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister. On Friday he was chosen Prime Minister by the National Assembly by securing 176 votes, while his opponent, PML-N President Shahbaz …

Many economic experts analyzed that the country’s population must not exceed beyond certain level. They foresee that the affiliation between population growth and growth of economic progress has been noted broadly and on the other hand, they believe that economic …

Trade is an important tool to boost the economic progress of any country. Researchers revealed that Pakistan facing tough challenges to foreign trade across its eastern, western and north-western borders. They urged that the poor relations with neighboring country India, …

Want to get rid of poverty, lessen inequality and provide financial stability in a world of precarious work? Well, why not simply give everyone enough money to ensure basic sustenance? This is the deceptively simple solution proposed by advocates of …

Global markets are on edge once again, this time thanks to the Turkish lira. It crashed more than 15% against the US dollar, euro and pound sterling on August 10 and continued to fall when markets reopened after the weekend …

Population growth rate in Pakistan is extremely high due to high fertility rate with a large proportion of young adults and children. Pakistan had a population of 33 million in 1950 and ranked 14th in the world but its population …

Poverty cannot be tackled without having credible data and figures related to poverty incidence in Pakistan. Poverty reduction has been a major official development objective in the country over the past many years. Critics however blame the governments for downplaying …

Balochistan has enormous potential to emerge as Pakistan’s new economic frontier. Unfortunately, it still remains the least developed and poorest among the four provinces. Agriculture is the mainstay of provincial economy, as over 75 per cent of the population lives …

In times when globalization seems to challenge local certainties, people often rediscover their emotional, cultural and religious identities, and project them onto the nation state. But they tend to forget that nation states are primarily occupied with political, administrative and …

Reportedly Pakistan’s name has been added to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ‘grey-list’. The overwhelming reaction to this move is being termed ‘arm-twisting’ to add to the woes of the country already suffering from serious balance of payment crisis. …