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A great recession in the offing amidst Covid-19, experts warn

  Islamabad , APR 12  (DNA) – As a consequent of COVID-19 crisis, the whole world, both developed and developing countries alike, is most likely to face recession period which will be more severe than 2008 great recession. In order to tackle post Covid-19 recessionary period, the multilateral institutions need to strengthen the cooperation and must help the developing countries for effective preparedness to help prevent the spread of pandemic.   Experts said this during an online COVID-19 policy response dialogue titled “Role and Future of Multilateral Institutes” organised by theRead More


Fight against the Pandemic

Raja Furqan Ahmed The spontaneous change in the life of human kinds comes through the pandemic called COVID-19. Approximately 7.8 billion world population feels threat and larger confined at home. In many parts of the world borders are closed, trade stop, hotels, businesses shut down, churches, Mosque, learning institutions close, stock market crashes, economy collapse etc. Government takes unprecedented measures to stop the spread of coronavirous. The pandemic first outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. Later on it spread around the globe and on 30 January 2020Read More


Kazakhstan’s New Economic Plan Dr Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan

To achieve the desired goals of economic sustainability, H.E. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has advised the government to prepare a new befitting economic plan/path/policy to revolutionize the national economy by gearing up mechanism of structural reforms which may also mitigate the spillover socio-economic repercussions of ongoing global recession. While chairing the meeting of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs the president instructed the administration to develop an economic reform program by May 15, 2020. In this connection, the government and Kazakh Parliament have adopted various diversified but integrated programsRead More


PM Imran for a global initiative on debt relief

  ANSAR M BHATTI ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan, today, appealed for a “Global Initiative on Debt Relief”. While noting that COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented health and economic challenges, the Prime Minister underlined that a global recession was certain, one worse than the Great Depression. A global pandemic cannot be contained without strong, coordinated and well-crafted global response, he stressed.   The Global Initiative on Debt Relief will bring together stakeholders on a platform to promote coordinated health and economic response. During the past week, various announcements have beenRead More


Zafar Mirza urges nation to stay indoor

ISLAMABAD, Apr 12 (DNA) – Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza said on Sunday that lockdown had helped to maintain social distance to contain the novel corona virus as avoiding the interaction was the only safety which could stop the virus to spread. ”Proper measures would be taken to contain the coronavirus and provide people an access to purchase the food and other daily needed stuff,” he said while talking to a private news channel. The government was deeply concerned to facilitate the poor segments ofRead More


Kasuri family pledges Rs 60 million for PM fund

ISLAMABAD, APR 12 (DNA) – The Kasuri family and the Mahmud Ali Kasuri (MAK) Welfare Trust have pledged a combined Rs 60 million (6 crore) towards the Covid-19 crisis engulfing the country. Of this, the Trust and the Kasuri family have contributed Rs 20 million each to alleviate the hardship faced by deserving individuals through a Rs 40 million fund, while a further Rs 20 million is being contributed by the Trust to the Prime Minister’s Covid-19 Relief Fund. The Rs 40 million (4 crore) fund will be used toRead More