The question as to what are the significant factors in shaping the road to development is of fundamental and primal importance in the present circumstances when the government is focusing more on infrastructure rather than literacy and skills transfer. On social media, there is a clear-cut division between people’s perception about Rawalpindi/Islamabad Metro Bus Project versus Education. In the case ...

In line with its defined strategic order, China has now started working more closely with Pakistan in areas of new investments and partnerships. The process started way back in the 1990s; however, a joint declaration in this regard was the concrete outcome after a meeting between President Hu Jintao and President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in 2003 at Beijing (Fmprc, 2003). The declaration highlighted the ...

Pakistan is an arid to semi arid economy with low and variable rainfall. Water is a scarce resource and most of it is utilized in agriculture sector. The major water resource here is the sophisticated Indus Basin irrigation system, which irrigates more than 90 per cent of the country crops. Agriculture constitutes the largest part of Pakistan's economy, as majority of the population, directly or ...

Six years of BRI and CPEC have paved the way for future cooperation and prosperity among the regional countries. Many studies concluded that BRI and CPEC have immense potential for future. It will help meet the required resources, infrastructure and livelihood opportunities on the one hand, and on the other complement the efforts of the United Nations under the umbrella of SDGs. It has many overlapping ...

The study aims to gauge people’s perception about environmental issues and their impact on their daily lives. Therefore, to find out “If environment is a determinant for people to vote?” a short questionnaire consisting of 10 close ended questions was developed for a survey. The results of the survey were outrageous since about 91 per cent of the respondents think that high temperature is a key ...

The Government of Pakistan has approved several export promotional schemes at the federal and provincial level. Besides, FBR has tax-related export-oriented schemes which incentivize exports. Traditionally, these schemes were limited to five zero-rated sectors, however realization has grown that a level playing field should be created where similar schemes should be available to potential and new ...

This policy paper proposes four strategic directions for Pakistan’s agenda for SMEs, which include i) designing and continuing targeted support policies and packages for SMEs throughout four phases of recovery from the COVID-19 ii) putting SMEs at the heart of economic and development policy, iii) establishing database and mapping of the SMEs, particularly the informal SMEs and iv) promoting ...