Karachi, March 09, 2021: To mark International Women’s Day, ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is urging more governments to adopt the use of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) to ensure that women and men benefit equally from the economic recovery out of Covid-19, and to guarantee a stop to inequality. According to the UN’s…
Karachi, February 02, 2021: “Employers should provide full coverage of social security benefits to their employees to reap the full fruit of improved enterprise productivity.” This was stated by Zaki Ahmed Khan, Vice President EFP, while addressing Awareness Raising Meetings with Employers on Social Security Schemes in Sindh. These meetings were organized by EFP in collaboration…
Karachi, June 13, 2020: Special committee of National Assembly calls for a meeting to discuss issues on export of mango. The export of mango during this year is likely to witness 70 percent drop in the export volume of mango compared to the previous mango season due to hurdles in export of mango to Iran &…
United Nations, April 24, 2020: An important United Nations forum Thursday called for addressing the debt burden threatening the economic collapse of coronavirus-hit developing countries, as UN leaders underlined the call by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for a global initiative for debt relief. The Financing for Development (FfD) Forum of the United Nations Economic…
Islamabad, April 6, 2020: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has taken additional measures to facilitate bank customers that are faced with extraordinary challenges arising out of COVID-19 situation in the country. Now banks’ customers can approach SBP through its helpline service in case their queries or complaints. SBP has also taken notice of phone calls to banks’ customers by fraudsters seeking personal…