Space for making a living
(WorldNews Business)

OWING to the devastating fallout of Covid-19, maximising public welfare and economic self-reliance have emerged as the over-arching issues for many countries, including Pakistan. These two issues would matter a great deal in setting the course of economic recovery and social development. Going by the official pronouncements and prior policy decisions, the 2020-21 budget will aim at shoring up the sagging domestic demand and speed up efforts to boost indigenous production to cut imports as badly hurt exports would take time to pick up. The coronavirus has destabilised many developing and developed economies and international trade, and the ways things were done with an approaching recession....