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How to Save Money for Your Next Big Family Vacation Trip?
From the Blog smartchoice Family vacations are the time when everyone is looking forward to enjoying a relaxing time with the loved one. With the busy routine and struggles of life, it is a must to have a family gathering where you can spend some time with your dear ones, at least once a year. If you are the one who is stuck in the 9 to 6 job or a hectic business routine, and could not spare much time to spend with the family, considering a family trip to a far-off area can be the best option to retain your relationships and personal health at the same time. It will also help to mend the broken bonds between you and your loved one. However, there is much more than time what you need to have in hand while planning a family trip. Without a considerable amount of money in your pocket, you can surely notpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments
Rhetoric & reality
From the Blog odysseuslahoriBetween April and October 2016, I was conducting a study on Chashma Right Bank Canal that runs through Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was during the height of the frenzied and much-hyped 'billion-tree tsunami' by the ruling party of the province. In May, I witnessed men planting hundreds of conocarpus and eucalyptus trees along the canal. I also saw thousands of eucalyptus trees in the stream bed of the Gambila river somewhere in the vicinity of Lakki Marwat. Both are extraordinarily thirsty trees. A mature eucalyptus (native to Australia) can soak over 100 litres of water a day. This was determined by the very competent Dr Ashraf Bodla in 1989-90, then working for the Nuclear Institute of Agro-Biology in Faisalabad. Every eucalyptus planted on our soil ispakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments
Lahore School of Economics International Conference on Applied Development Economics
From the Blog lahoreschoolofeconomics Lahore School of Economics hosted its first International Conference on Applied Development Economics on 12-13 September 2018 at the Lahore School's Burki Campus. The aim of the conference was to expose researchers and policy makers in Pakistan to on-going research on key issues of relevance to economic development and poverty alleviation in Pakistan and contribute to improving research capabilities of young researchers in the country. The conference highlighted frontier research that is being conducted in Pakistan with the aim of economic development and poverty alleviation. The first day of the conference started with welcome remarks by Dr Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, rector of Lahore School of Economics. Professor Imran Rasul, Professor of Economics at the University College Lonpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments
The Bretton Woods Agreement and Significance
From the Blog faisalkhan Any student of economics will tell you, that sooner or later, the Bretton Woods Agreement will come into their syllabus and what a difference it made to the world. Established in 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement remains to be one of the most historical achievements ever made through global cooperation and coordination. The agreement was establish to streamline the management of monetary & exchange rates. The agreement was reached in July of 1944 at the U.N. Monetary and Financial Conference that went down in New Hampshire's Bretton Woods. The Bretton Woods Agreement pegged currencies to the cost of gold and made the U.S. dollar the standard global currency. The agreement remains one of the most important decisions ever made in the global financial history. *To get a better spakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments
