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The National Finance Commission Award or NFC is a series of planned economic programs in Pakistan enacted since 1951. [1] Constituted under the Article 160 of the Constitution, the program was emerged to take control of financial imbalances and equally managed the financial resources to four provinces to meet their expenditure liabilities while alleviating the horizontal fiscal imbalances. [2]
Pakistan joined IMF on 11 July 1950 as newly established country was facing fiscal problems since its creation in 1947 from British India. In 1958, for the first time, Pakistan went to IMF for bailout. For this, IMF lent out US$25,000 (equivalent to $264,014 in 2023) [originally the loan-amount is given in SDR; [4] for this article it is ...
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a federal unconditional cash transfer poverty reduction program in Pakistan. Launched in July 2008, it was the largest single social safety net program in the country with nearly Rs. 90 billion ($900 million) distributed to 5.4 million beneficiaries in 2016. [3]
With around 82 million internet users as of May 2020, Pakistan ranks 9th globally, [433] [434] and its ICT industry is projected to exceed $10 billion by 2020. [435] With 12,000 employees, Pakistan is among the top five freelancing nations, [ 436 ] and its export performance in telecom, computer, and information services has notably improved.
The Pakistan Economic Survey is an annual report on the performance of the economy, focusing in particular on major macroeconomic indicators. Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin briefed on 10 June 2021, the Pakistan Economic Survey 2020-21 at a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday, revealing that the industrial and services sectors had helped the economy rebound and post GDP growth of 3.94 per ...
2020. 2024. Pakistan competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [1][2] Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] It was Pakistan's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
2025–26. 2026–27. The 2024–25 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States will cover the prime time hours from September 2024 to August 2025. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2023–24 ...
For instance, a fund aimed at a retirement date 40 years from now will be invested mostly in stocks (e.g., 90% stocks, 10% fixed income), whereas when the target date is just a few years away, the ...