ISLAMABAD: Economic Affairs Minister Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar is receiving a document from World Bank’s Country Director Najy Benhassine related to next five-year Country Partnership Framework during a meeting on Monday.
ISLAMABAD: With divergent financing priorities, Pakistan has asked the World Bank to focus its next five-year funding under Country Partnership Framework (CPF) on basic areas where the country lagged like human capital, poverty alleviation, stunting, revenue mobilisation and economic reforms.
This was conveyed to a World Bank team led by Country Director Najy Benhassine on Monday by Minister for Economic Affairs Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar as part of consultations on the CPF 2022-26.
Islamabad:The government of Japan has agreed to provide Pakistan with grants approximately worth 1,986 million Japanese Yen for installation of weather surveillance radar.Notes to this effect were.
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Industrial production hit new high in 2020
01/26/2021 07:52 PM
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Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) Industrial production in Taiwan hit a record high in 2020, with the local semiconductor industry boosted by solid global demand despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
Data compiled by the ministry showed that the industrial production index for 2020 rose 6.81 percent from a year earlier to a new high of 115.84.
The sub-index for the manufacturing sector, which accounts for more than 90 percent of total production, also rose to a record high of 116.83, up 7.26 percent from a year earlier, the data showed.
MOEA Department of Statistics deputy chief Huang Wei-chieh (黃偉傑) told reporters that emerging technologies such as 5G applications and high performance computing devices pushed up demand for Taiwan s semiconductors, offsetting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wells, desalination plant to tackle water shortage
BUILT IN ADVANCE: The emergency wells would contribute 336,000 tonnes of water daily and the desalination plant 200,000 tonnes, the economics minister said
By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has deployed 159 emergency wells and created an emergency desalinization plant to tackle a difficult water shortage the nation is facing, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Tseng Wen-sheng (曾文生) said yesterday.
The two resources would together contribute more than half a million tonnes of water to the nation’s daily supply, Tseng said after a meeting at the Central Emergency Operation Center focusing on the water situation in the nation.