The story so far:Pakistan’s recent election was considered a crucial one that would lead to a stable government with a clear mandate, end political instability, and start a process of political healing at the national level, especially in Punjab. The Establishment would have wanted the PML-N to win, especially in Punjab, and expected its pre-election political engineering to dent the …
The release of two papers — from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund respectively — has once again brought the poverty debate into the limelight. The IMF paper, however, calculates poverty by using the National Statistical Organisation’s Consumer Expenditure Survey as base and adjusting it for direct effect of massive food grain subsidy given under the National Food …
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is announcing relief measures to boost health infrastructure and exports among others. The total financial implication of this free visa scheme would be Rs 100 crore. Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme An additional Rs 1.5 lakh crore has been granted under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme, which was announced last year. Rs 50,000 crore …
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