Digital policies, where art thou?
Out-of-touch policies and low ease-of-business hold back a total digital revolution in Pakistan
Panellist says shift to digital technologies has become increasingly important as it helps in cutting the cost and time faced by traders. PHOTO: AFP
KARACHI:
Like any other country across the globe, Pakistan saw a dynamic digitalisation growth after the pandemic struck the world. We saw every country making new innovations, policies and regulations thereafter to support the sudden but swift shift that corporations and businesses went through. A similar speedy transition was also seen in Pakistan. However, one thing in Pakistan was different from the rest of the world: the knowledge of policy maker’s about digital platforms.
H.E. Ms.
Ambassador of
India to the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia. She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1996 and has previously served at Indian Embassies/ High Commissions in Paris, London, Kuala Lumpur and Brussels. Ms. Kapur has held charges pertaining to
India’s relationship with Western Europe, South East Asia, the United Nations and the Commonwealth at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, most recently heading the ASEAN Multilateral Division.
Ambassador Kapur is a published author and a frequent speaker at international conferences and events. She was the Chief Coordinator of the Delhi Dialogue for three years.
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Not too many Nigerians expected the nation’s Covid-induced recession which hit the economy in the Third Quarter (Q3) to have disappeared in Q4 with an expansion of 0.11 percent.
For one, I watched many economic experts discuss the “unexpected exit” of Nigeria from recession when there’s nearly no end in sight to the United Kingdom economy exiting recession. As economist Bismark Rewane said in an interview with CHANNELS TV this morning, this remarkable development can be attributed to four interelated factors which include the fact that the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) “was more successful than we thought it would be initially”.
How Buhari, Osinbajo got Nigeria out of recession
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Sat Feb 20 2021
Not too many Nigerians expected the nation’s Covid-induced recession which hit the economy in the Third Quarter (Q3) to have disappeared in Q4 with an expansion of 0.11 percent. For one, I watched many economic experts discuss the “unexpected exit” of Nigeria from recession when there’s nearly no end in sight to the United Kingdom economy exiting recession.
As economist Bismark Rewane said in an interview with Channels TV this morning, this remarkable development can be attributed to four interrelated factors which include the fact that the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) “was more successful than we thought it would be initially”.