KP govt to establish economic zone in Mansehra
Peshawar
February 3, 2021
MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has sanctioned the establishment of an industrial economic zone to promote small and medium industries in the district.
“The government wants to promote industries in the province to create employment opportunities for people and this is the reason that the chief minister approved the establishment of the economic zone,” Zulfiqar Sahibzada, Deputy Director Small Industries and Economic Zones, told reporters here on Tuesday.
A team of small industries and economic zones led by Sahibzada visited Badra, Lalobandi and Sheikhabad areas to choose the site for the economic zone. The office-bearers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by the district general secretary Taimur Saleem Swati also accompanied the delegation.
MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has sanctioned the establishment of an industrial economic zone to promote small and medium industries in the district.“The government wants to.
Economic growth has ‘devastating cost to nature’
World
February 3, 2021
PARIS: Humanity’s unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a “devastating cost to nature” according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet.
The 600-page rundown of scientific material commissioned by the British government highlighted the precarious state of biodiversity and warned that only a sea change in how countries power economic growth could prevent catastrophic impacts for nature, and humanity.
The Dasgupta Review a two-year global collaboration of hundreds of academics overseen by Partha Dasgupta, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Cambridge said that all livelihoods depended on the health of the planet. It showed that while global capital produced per person had doubled in the three decades since 1992, the stock of natural capital that is, the quantifiable benefit an individual derives from services bestowed by
Regions faring well despite Covid stress
29 Jan, 2021 02:00 AM
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Digital communication platform is a key as firms face pandemic.
Kiwi accountancy firms are being advised to keep going hard in 2021 as Covid-19 continues to cause economic uncertainty.
The call, from Manoli Aerakis who heads up the Nelson office of chartered accountancy and business advisory firm Malloch McLean, comes as he says there is still a lot of stress within business in the regions, despite many of his clients experiencing a booming economy in recent months. Who knows what is going to happen next (with the pandemic), he says. We will have to wait and see what happens with the vaccine (this is not expected to be available until the second half of the year) but we tell our clients to keep going hard anyway.
Uzbekistan, Pakistan keen on PTA, economic cooperation
Business
February 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Uzbekistan and Pakistan on Monday showed resolve to enter into a preferential trade agreement and cooperate in shipping, textile, engineering and information technology sectors.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev, president of Uzbekistan discussed matters related to economic cooperation during a meeting with Adviser on Commerce and Investment Razak Dawood, who is leading a delegation to Uzbekistan, according to an official statement. This was the first meeting of joint working group on trade and economic affairs and the meeting of tripartite working group on the implementation of the âTrans-Afghan railway projectâ. The meeting would continue till 4 February.