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In late January, Pakistan lifted the artificial cap on its currency, causing the rupee to plunge 20% against the dollar in a few days. The government raised fuel prices by 16%. And the Pakistani central bank raised its interest rate by 100 basis points to battle the country's highest inflation in decades, expected to be as high as 26% in ...
The Seventh Five-Year Plans for National Economy of Pakistan, otherwise known as Seventh Plan, [1] were a set of a highly centralized and planned economic development targets designed for the improvement of the standard of living, and overall strengthening of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Pakistan, between the period of 1988 until its termination in 1993.
At Walmart, you can even purchase Starbucks reusable cups, mugs and tumblers online, which is kind of big deal, considering that Starbucks shut down its own online retail store in 2017 to strictly ...
Starbucks' footprint in the United States, showing saturation of metropolitan areas. Some of the methods Starbucks has used to expand and maintain their dominant market position, including buying out competitors' leases, intentionally operating at a loss, and clustering several locations in a small geographical area (i.e., saturating the market), have been labeled anti-competitive by critics. [14]
Tata Starbucks owned and operated Starbucks outlets in India as Starbucks Coffee "A Tata Alliance". [217] Starbucks opened its first store in India in Mumbai on October 19, 2012. [218] [219] [220] On February 1, 2013, Starbucks opened its first store in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, [221] [222] [223] and its first location in Hanoi in July 2014. [224]
The Pakistan government spent over 1 trillion rupees (about $16.7 billion) on poverty alleviation programs during the past four years, reducing poverty from 35% in 2000–01 to 29.3% in 2013 and further to 17% in 2015. [56] Rural poverty remains a pressing issue, as development in those areas has been significantly slower than in major urban areas.
The momentum and demands for denationalisation gained currency towards the end of the government of Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Pakistan Peoples Party who under intensified their nationalisation programme had effectively the government-ownership management in the private industries of Pakistan; it had built a strong public-sector with priority on cement, steel and fertilizers. [8]