An innocent enough question: What do you want to be when you grow up? You can pretty much count on visiting relatives to ask your kids what they want to be when they grow up. The question can be intimidating for little ones, who might say they want to be a doctor or pilot or a teacher, without truly understanding what that job involves. When people asked what you wanted to be …
Read More »The symbiosis of IT and E-Commerce in Pakistan
Industrialization Revolutions resulting from technological innovations have transformed the world many folds. The first, second and third industrial revolutions focused only social living but fourth industrial revolution is there to revolutionize fundamentally our way to live, work and our relationships. This is going to intermingle our physical, geographical, digital and biological boundaries. The fourth revolution will evolve with exponential rather than linear path. There is going to be unending realm …
Read More »Poverty alleviation through creation of job opportunities
It may be said that elected governments bother to introduce special schemes ensuring better job opportunities for educated youth and undertaking Benazir Income Support Program and the latest being Prime Minister Youth Business Loan scheme. However, all these may cater a few favorites or a limited segment of the society. The prime responsibility of the government is to create enabling environment that can usher new investment, creation of productive …
Read More »Violent behavior, lack of jobs hindering gender equality
Pakistan is keen to achieve all the objectives outlined under the UN in SDGs In nearly 100 countries of the world, women face gender-based job restrictions. There are no laws for women guaranteeing equal remuneration for work of equal value and no laws mandating non-discrimination based on gender in hiring, this was recently published in the World Bank notes Women, Business and the Law 2016. It was also observed …
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