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  Port benefits are increasingly distributed across different players and concern a geography that transcends the local community. This trend skews the assessment of the benefits of port investments, where the local impacts can be much less significant than the regional or national. Ports are considered as funnels to economic development since they act as a catalyst and incite development to take place in specific economic sectors and locations at …

  For a long time and in many societies, education for all has been a debate for the progress and the development of society. Education is what helps an individual to be more aware of what is happening around the world; it is about the attainment of knowledge and being able to understand the difference between right and wrong. In a society like Pakistan’s which is still developing and progressing, …

  Northern areas of Pakistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa been specially focused The Agha Khan manages all social and humanitarian initiatives through the Agha Khan Development Network (AKDN). Eleven agencies operate within the AKDN each focusing on a different objective e.g. education, health, microfinance, planning and building etc. Regional agencies within AKDN identify areas where funds can be allocated whereas budgeting is done through the AKDN regional office. AKDN operates no …

  With a population of 180 million, a geo-strategic location, the required human resources and natural endowments, Pakistan has all the potential to grow as a developed industrial national. Unfortunately, it is still a developing nation even after lapse of more than six decades since it appeared on the world map as a sovereign and independent nation. Having rich in natural resources, the country has been going through major challenges …

  It’s worth trying to determine Pakistan’s development stage in terms of Rostow’s five stages of economic growth that is: traditional society, preconditions or preparatory stage, take-off stage, drive to maturity, and mass consumption. The trouble is with Rostow’s failure to take into account government policies and economic reversals resulting from mismanagement and administrative corruptions. For example, the preparatory stage decrees development of certain economic and social infrastructure like ports, …

  Message of Dr. Song Jong-hwan, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Pakistan and Interview with Dr. Baek Yeong-hoon, translator of President Park Chung-hee’s first commercial loan delegation to West Germany in 1961. It has been 1 year and 8 months since I came to Pakistan as the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea. During this time the most frequently asked question of my Pakistani friends has been “How …

  Policy frameworks provided in a draft Vision 2025 for Pakistan have objectives at substantial growth in access to education as well as making important developments in quality of education in the country. Pakistan ranks 113th out of 120 states in the UNESCO‘s all education development index. There is still a high dropout rate at the primary, secondary and tertiary stage in the country whereas a yearly expenditure is very …

  Pakistan’s human resource community is far behind in their awareness of global requirements and the development of modern technologies to deal with them. It is hard to compete in this modern world economy without having expertise and qualified and well-skilled manpower. Human Resource Development (HRD) plays an important part in the long-term planning for economic development. Many developed and developing countries have put greater importance on Human Resource Development …

  Punjab Govt considers education as a tool to development Record funds allocated for school and higher education While education is a prime factor in economic and social well being of any nation apart from a strategic tool in nation building through skill development, investment education sector is of prime importance. Punjab government has achieved several milestones in student enrolment, availability and functionality of facilities, in teacher quality and student …

  During the two decades of the current millennium, the world has been taken by some sweeping changes in the field of ICT. Not surprisingly, the year-on-year growth in ICT has been higher in the developing world in comparison to the developed world. With the change in the US economy from industrial to consumer, the flow of dollar has been from the West to the East. The outsourcing factor and …