The three ‘I’s’ of economic growth: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (part II) on August 8, 2020In a similar standpoint, target 9.5 is geared to ‘enhancing scientific research and upgrading the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, encouraging innovation, substantially increasing the number of research and development workers and public and private research and development spending’. In vision of this, for indicator 9.5.1, which looks at the research and […]
The 8th SDG is slipping through Pakistan’s hands like sand on July 21, 2020Pakistan’s progress on the eighth Sustainable Development Goal is in trouble. SDG 8 is a multifarious goal consisting of indicators such as real GDP per capita, domestic material consumption, and unemployment, proportion of unemployed or uneducated youth, access to financial institutions, and aid for trade commitments. In 2015, Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the […]
A Traction or Halt on SDG 1 on July 8, 2020Alas, we have now come to realize that we have to live with the coronavirus for the years to come. But with the economic impacts gone awry, one can clearly say that, like this virus, poverty knows no geographical boundaries. Recent figures on predicted poverty after Covid-19, as provided by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, […]