Lahore tops world ranking for worst air quality
Wali Zahid | IMC Lahore tops the world ranking for worst air quality today, according to AirVisual, the real-time air quality map. The top ten worst ranked cities include three Indian cities – Delhi, Kolkata...
Pakistan GDP grows to 13-year-high 5.8% in 2018: SBP
Pakistan’s economy grew by 5.8% in 2018, the highest in 13 years. Last year, the GDP growth was recorded at 5.4%, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) annual report released yesterday. Graphic,...
Pakistan ranks worst in South Asia in Global Hunger Index
Above: Global Hunger Index (GHI) scores by rank, 2000 GHI, 2005 GHI, 2010 GHI, and 2018 GHI Pakistan has ranked 14th worst among 119 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2018. With 20.5 percent of its...
Pakistan now among top 40 global economies
Pakistan is among the world’s largest economies by Gross Domestic Product, GDP numbers from the World Bank, released on 21 September 2018 reveal. The above visualisation of world economy is done by HowMuch. IMF...
IMF sees Pakistan GDP growth falling to 3% in next five years
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees Pakistan GDP growth to fall at 4% during the current fiscal year as it says the economy is losing grip on the gains made during the previous years. “Growth in Pakistan is...
Pakistan is world’s 4th fastest growing economy: HSBC
Wali Zahid | IMC Pakistan is the world’s fourth fastest growing economy after Bangladesh, Ethiopia and India, according to the 2018 global research report by HSBC. Titled ‘The World in 2030‘, and...
Pakistan tops gender inequality ranking in Asia Pacific
Wali Zahid | IMC In a 2018 McKinsey report, Pakistan tops gender inequality ranking in Asia Pacific in 2018. Image above. In work inequality (labour force participation, professional and technical jobs, perceived...
Pakistan exports at a glance 2013-18
What Pakistan exported in 2016. Worth $27.8 billion. Top 3: ICT, House linen, rice | Source: Harvard CID Atlas Wali Zahid | IMC Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID) is a good resource in...
What is in for Pakistan and India in SCO Qingdao Summit?
Wali Zahid | IMC Various versions of this article appeared in The News International, Pakistan’s largest-selling daily (Op-Ed part 1, part 2), China Pictorial, China-India Dialogue (in English and Chinese)...
Decay and erosion as currency: Messed-up Pakistan Series 5
On this blog and on my social media platforms, I take pride in publishing posts about infrastructure and development projects happening in all parts of the country. A couple of years ago, on a post about...