sectors and high corporate tax rates.Political stability is vital for the implementation of long-term consistent policies but due to frequent govt. changes, inconsistent policies have been a strong threat to foreign investors. Pakistan's ongoing energy crisis has been an alarming issue for foreign ...
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday urged parties concerned to address the root causes of crisis in Central Asia and build peaceful societies resilient to terrorism and violent extremism. Addressing the Security Council meeting of "Building regional partner...
The effects of energy price shocks onmacroeconomicvariables are widely assessed. However, a significant majority of these energy price shocks relates to other energy commodities such as crude oil (Kilian, 2009;Peersman and Van Robays, 2012;Farzanegan and Markwardt, 2009, for example). In this ...
Drilling down, there may be a shortage of bread if wheat crops fail due to weather. Necessary personal protective equipment may become unavailable because of overwhelming demand during a global healthcare crisis. Needed drugs may be in short supply, as well. Oil can be limited when countries wa...
Over the past decade, average annual heat wave frequency has increased by 50% globally compared to pre-industrial averages. Parts of the world are getting hit much harder. Studies show the likelihood of extreme heat waves in India and Pakistan, for example, has increased by a staggering 150 ...
The transition to a net-zero economywill require significant investmentin alternative forms of energy, aswell as power storage, transmission andsupporting services. Climate change adaptionand mitigation will also give rise toopportunities with new coastal and flooddefences required. Commercial buildings,plan...
After the Pakistan textile industry received the notice that the supply of natural gas was suspended indefinitely, the pressure on natural gas quickly dropped to zero.
In both her work and her person, the composer Reena Esmail reflects the global diaspora. Her Indian mother, a member of India’s Portuguese-influenced Goan community, grew up in Kenya; her father, also Indian, lived in Pakistan, where his family moved after Partition. Esmail herself was born...
"Several cross-border initiatives are now being planned or are under way, including the Central Asia-South Asia power project, a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India, and a new power transmission line from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan," he said. ...
For power plant networks in developing countries like Iraq, balancing electricity demand and generation continues to be a major challenge. Energy management (EM) in either demand-side (DS) or generation-side (GS) strategies, which is frequently utilized in Iraq due to a lack of adequate power ...