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PAKISTAN’S CHALLENGES: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2015-2030: Looking inwards: the new development paradigm

- Pakistan’s national income per capita has doubled since 1990; with income poverty declining nearly three times since 2000- The share of Foreign Direct Investment in the economy has fluctuated in the past 30 years; in 2013 it was back at the 1990 level- If Pakistan is to meet the SDGs, there is considerable scope to improve the role of partnershipsNegotiating the path towards sustainable development is not easy for any country acting...

Balochistan's development vital for growth of Pakistan, says army chief

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa while speaking to Baloch students in Rawalpindi on Thursday promised the army's support for development of Balochistan, stressing that the province's progress is vital for the growth of Pakistan...

The army chief met a group of 173 students and their families at the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate"Pakistan cannot succeed, Pakistan cannot develop if there is no...

Centre wants to retain Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation assets

ISLAMABAD: Negating the gist of the 18th Amendment, the federal government has decided to retain assets worth billions of rupees of the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC)...

Under the 18th Amendment, more than a dozen federal ministries and allied departments, including the PTDC, were devolved to the provinces by the Pakistan Peoples Party government in 2010...

Pakistan to get $4.7bn under Asian Development Bank’s new business plan

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has unveiled a new country operations business plan for Pakistan for 2018-20 with indicative resources available amounting to $4...

Being a group ‘B’ developing member country, Pakistan is eligible for ordinary capital resources and concessional lending...

Pakistan lags behind in human capital development: WEF

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among the world’s 38 per cent countries which are facing a ‘talent crisis’, thus falling short of fully realising people’s economic potential at all stages of economic development largely due to unemployment and ineffective deployment of skills throughout the workforce...

Pakistan 'appreciates' US assistance in energy development process, says Aziz

The Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Sartaj Aziz, on Monday acknowledged the United States' "cooperation" in the development of Pakistan's energy sector...

He was speaking at the inauguration of the Steering Committee for Integrated Energy Planning (IEP), attended by US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale...

Asian Development Bank warns climate change 'disastrous' for Pakistan

A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be “disastrous “for Asia undoing much of the phenomenal economic growth that has helped it make vast inroads against poverty, the Asian Development Bank said in a report released Friday...

Myanmar, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Thailand are among the world's top 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events, it said...

Pakistan must boost tax revenue to finance development: UNDP

ISLAMABAD: The top official from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Asia-Pacific region has said that low tax-to-GDP ratio is critical for development in Pakistan and the government should look into the taxation issue, which is complicated as well as sensitive...

UN Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director of UNDP for Asia and the Pacific Haoliang Xu upon the conclusion of his four-day visit to Pakistan...

PM Nawaz claims credit for development across Pakistan

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday claimed that the PML-N government was launching development projects not only in Punjab but also in Sindh, Balochistan and even Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

If you want to witness prosperity then visit the rest of Pakistan," he maintained...

Pakistan, South Korea sign $500m development framework

ISLAMABAD: The Republic of Korea and Pakistan on Friday signed a Framework Arrangement amounting to $500 million for different development projects...

Dar appreciated the cooperation extended by South Korea for development projects in Pakistan...

Pakistan to take on sustainable development goals on its own

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Prof Ahsan Iqbal on Monday said the government had decided to take over the responsibility for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

The federal minister was speaking at a seminar titled ‘Sustainable Development Goals and the way Forward’ organised by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)...

Pakistan committed to achieving sustainable development goals: Iqbal

ISLAMABAD: Federal Mini-ster for Planning, Develop-ment and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday that Pakistan attached great importance to its commitments on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

“Pakistan has accorded the highest priority to achieving the goals which will enable us to join the league of upper middle class countries by 2030,” Mr Iqbal said while speaking at the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development...

IMF wants Pakistan to curtail development spending by Rs360bn

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund expects Pakistan to curtail its overall development budget by Rs360 billion (almost 24pc) of allocations to limit the fiscal deficit...

According to documents released over the weekend after approval of Pakistan’s 10th quarterly review by its executive board, the IMF expected the government to limit its overall development programme to Rs1...

ADB to provide Pakistan $1.2 billion for infrastructure development

MANILA/ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide a $1...

2 billion assistance package to Pakistan, the major chunk of which will be spent for improving power, transport, agriculture and urban service sectors, Radio Pakistan reported on Saturday...

PAKISTAN’S CHALLENGES: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2015-2030: Translating aspiration into reality

- Goal 16 focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies- Pakistan faces formidable difficulties realising the targets set for SDG 16THE realisation that the exclusion of improved governance from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agenda for 2015 was a major cause of the failure of many countries (including Pakistan) to achieve the targets has led to the inclusion of this objective in the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development...