‘CAD to be resolved in two years’
KARACHI: The issue of current account deficit (CAD) will be resolved in the next two years, Governor State Bank of Pakistan Tariq Bajwa said on Monday...
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ArchiveCAD contracts 73pc in July
KARACHI: The current account deficit (CAD) shrank by a massive 73 per cent in the first month of this fiscal year, reported the State Bank of Pakistan on Tuesday...
The CAD plunged by 72...
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ArchiveZimbabwe trade union marches to demand jobs
HARARE: Around 200 hundred people from Zimbabwe’s main trade union on Saturday marched to government offices in Harare to demand that President Robert Mugabe fix the ailing economy and fulfil an election promise to create over 2 million jobs...
Addressing the workers, ZCTU leader George Nkiwane said Mugabe’s ZANU-PF government must fulfil its election promise to create over 2m jobs because “we haven’t seen any single job that has been...
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ArchiveForget merit, PML-N lawmakers to ‘oblige’ voters with jobs
GUJRAT: PML-N lawmakers from Gujrat are being given a special quota in the hundreds of Grade 4 jobs in different departments of the district government allegedly at the behest of the provincial government...
Official sources told Dawn that around 2,000 jobs Grade 1 to 4, which had already been advertised by health, education, agriculture and livestock departments, Tehsil Municipal Administration and the district council, would be...
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ArchiveChina steel capacity reduction to cut 0.4m jobs
MANILA: China’s plan to cut its steel production capacity by 100-150 million tonnes will lead to the loss of up to 400,000 jobs, the official Xinhua news agency reported...
China will raise funds to help workers should they lose their jobs when coal and steel firms close amid campaigns to cut overcapacity, according to Xinhua...
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ArchiveAuto vendors create 150,000 jobs this year
KARACHI: Around 125,000-150,000 new jobs (direct and indirect) were created by 1,600 auto vending units during the last one year after opening of jobs at local auto assembling plants of cars, light and heavy commercial vehicles and two wheelers...
Vice Chairman, Pakistan Association of Automobile Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM), Mehmood Alam Sherani, said for each job created at the vehicle assembling units, around 80 to...
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ArchiveJobs and ‘jihad’
Pakistan needs jobs and Saudi Arabia provides them; in exchange, it is not just the toiling bodies of young Pakistani men that are offered up to squeeze the oil from the kingdom’s largesse but also their minds...
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PakistanNon-regularisation of jobs: Visually impaired people block Metro route for 10 hours
LAHORE: Visually challenged people blocked on Wednesday the Metro bus service corridor for more than 10 hours in protest at the non-regularisation of their jobs...
Up to 25 challenged people gathered at Kalma Chowk and blocked the dedicated Metro bus route to get attention of the provincial government for regularisation of their service and quota in jobs...
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ArchiveCreating the right kind of jobs should be the priority for Pakistan
In an evolving world of work— the rapid creation and destruction of jobs— the issue of unemployment has acquired centrality in the development process and has led to the question of whether jobs, or workers, should be protected?Looking from an egalitarian perspective, the welfare of millions revolves around four things: full employment (including self-employment), fair wages, reasonable prices and an accelerated programme for community...
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Archive‘A corporate tax cut will not create more jobs’
“We want to make sure that companies bring back that money onshore to reinvest in American equipment and American jobs,” he told CNBC in a June interview...
Economists have long clashed over whether tax cuts lead to jobs growth...
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PakistanChief justice takes notice of 'exorbitant' fees levied on applicants for govt jobs
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday took notice of an application filed by a university student pertaining to the high fees liable to be paid by applicants for job vacancies, according to a statement issued from the public relations department of the Supreme Court...
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ArchiveYoung Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm
The hours were better at her nonprofit jobs...
“I wanted to have a positive impact, and that just felt very distant in my other jobs out of college,” Whitehurst said...
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PakistanCabinet refers federal jobs quota issue to Parliament, CCI
The federal cabinet on Tuesday decided to take the issue of extension in jobs quota before the Council of Common Interests (CCI) as well as the parliament...
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired the meeting where the existing provincial quota regime —in connection with provincial shares in federal level jobs, including Central Superior Services, — was discussed...
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ArchiveUS group sees thousands of jobs from TPP deal
WASHINGTON: The 12-nation Pacific trade pact would create nearly a quarter of a million US jobs due to increased foreign investment in the United States, a business group estimated on Monday, in the first look at the deal’s employment impact...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a potential legacy-defining achievement for President Barack Obama, is near completion but has run into opposition from Democrats and others who worry the...
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ArchiveHow Uber-type jobs are driving inequality
We learned a lot more about the disparity between those and more traditional jobs on Thursday, with the release of a massive report on inequality from the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development...
So what do we do about the increasing number of irregular jobs out there, in the on-demand economy or otherwise?The OECD says it’s not necessarily a good idea to try to get rid of them...
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