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Climate Change Reducing Pakistan’s Agricultural Productivity

Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin Climate change is a recognised universal truth globally, having coincidental adverse impacts on water resources, agriculture production, biodiversity, health, forest systems, and socio-economic sectors. It is anticipated that the developing and under-developed states will undergo severe and profound changes because of global climate change compared to the developed nations. At [...]
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Water and Food Security: A Threat to Pakistan’s Future

Love6 Share Tweet Share Pin Water scarcity and food security have rapidly deteriorated to a level threatening the state's financial viability. These two problems are interconnected as the increasing water scarcity causes more food insecurity in the country. Due to the rising cost of production, lack of policy, planning, research, cartelisation of agri-trade, and inefficient [...]
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Blockchain and its Role in Reducing Carbon Footprints

Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin The internet is entering a second era that’s based on blockchain. It is a shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network. It provides many benefits over centralised forms of record-keeping, including transparency of data and no single point of failure.  [...]
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China Agrees to Refinance over $2b Debt

Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin Debt is a key component of long-term financing for sustainable development and structural transformation. A developing country must rely on borrowings to achieve its overarching goals of economic stability and national development. Proper debt management is the prerequisite for the sustainable economic growth of a country. There must be an [...]
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Property Valuation Rates Expected to Rise

Love4 Share Tweet Share Pin Land valuation is an important practice in real estate and other property-related dealings. A clear and unbiased property valuation system is needed to create a streamlined real estate sector. Properly valuing real estate can lead to multiple benefits, including greater market acceptance among investors, supply and demand regulation, protection from [...]
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Establishing Technology Zones to Facilitate IT Companies in Pakistan

Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin Information technology has achieved a central enabling role in a knowledge society and economy's emerging dynamics. It is a driving tool of economic development. Digital growth in Pakistan is going through a rapid evolution. The rapid adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is essential for the country’s socio-economic development. [...]
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SBP Launched Easy Data Portal for Access to Financial Data

Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin Efficient, timely, and reliable data distribution is a core process of central banks worldwide. Open data availability encourages informed decision-making by households, firms, governments, academics, and other stakeholders, including financial market participants. Like other central banks, the State Bank of Pakistan provides economic and financial data to all stakeholders. At [...]
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Pakistan and Turkey to Shore up Strategic Economic Ties

Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin Pakistan and Turkey have a positive and traditionally strong relationship, maintaining extensive cultural, commercial, strategic, and military cooperation over the years. Turkey established diplomatic ties soon after Pakistan’s independence in 1947, and bilateral relations became very close due to the pair's cultural, religious, and geopolitical links. Turkey has also begun [...]
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Islamabad Ring Road Project Put on Hold till Next Fiscal Year

Love3 Share Tweet Share Pin The Islamabad and Rawalpindi ring roads were the previous government's mega projects. These two ring roads aimed to connect Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The Islamabad Ring Road is supposed to be started from Sangjani Interchange and terminated at the starting point of Rawalpindi Ring Road. It is a 50-kilometre-long Islamabad Ring [...]
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Four Ways to Boost E-Commerce in Pakistan

E-commerce is transforming and expanding online businesses and helps reduce geographical limitations and gain customers through search engines. It eliminates the need for a physical shop, lower costs, allows online comparison shopping, shows your deals, discounts, and new products easily, and provides great information. Furthermore, it includes consumer-to-consumer deals within online communities, business-to-business transactions, like [...]
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