– as even the respected World Bank President re-discovers the merit of a gold-exchange standard to combat exhorbitant currency volatility; the euro doing very poorly with the prospect of its implosion leading to an explosion of summitry, but with sophistry more in evidence than solutions – all this, and more, against a back-drop, at the global level, of the world trade system still pursuing the elusive closure of the Doha round and, at the local level in many countries, an amorphous “occupy” movement gathering momentum to vent its frustration against all manner of crisis-related ills, real or imagined.
360 billion to Rs.380 billion for the current year, which is 13 percent higher than the actual disbursement of Rs.336 billion in last year. BIS central bankers’ speeches    –  SBP is going to launch a country-wide Internship Program for 100 top graduates in agriculture to be funded under the ADB’s Improving Access to Financial Services Endowment Fund.