The debt-laden economy of Pakistan needs foreign inflows in order to address its economic woes. The global economic landscape seems better today vis-à-vis a year ago when the entire world was afflicted by the conundrums of the pandemic. Pakistan’s economic indicators at this juncture augur well down the road. There is no denying that Pakistan has been encountering the ordeal of balance of payment now and again. To address this …
Read More »Prospects of foreign remittance into Pakistan
Pakistan is one of the major beneficiaries of foreign remittances, whereas the volume of foreign remittances to Pakistan has also increased in recent past. The growth of these flows has outpaced Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and official development assistance to the country. Pakistan started to export manpower abroad particularly in the Middle East countries following oil price boom in the early 1970s. Because of labor shortage in the Middle East, …
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