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Opposition leaders slam govt’s ‘brutality’ as petroleum prices soar to all-time high

The government had notified an unprecedented increase in the prices of all petroleum products by up to Rs10 to Rs12 per litre.

In January, exports grew by 25.31 percent year-on-year (yoy) to $19.16 billion and imports by 36.77 percent yoy to $18.23 billion.

The industry views long-stay plans as one of the few ways it can survive.

As of Jan 2021, 68 central banks have publicly announced that they were working on their own central bank digital currency.

Pakistan has historically experienced uneven growth and remains among the least open economies in the world.

The share of manufacturing in the country’s GDP in 2015 prices shrank to 20.08% in 2020 from 20.26% a year earlier.

Cambodia in 2021 harvested in nearly 860,000 tonnes of fisheries products, with a total value of $1.7 billion.

Exports of gems and jewellery, excluding gold, in Dec 2021 were worth US$587.16 million, up 29.33 per cent year on year.

He also said millions of jobs were lost, while per capita income and expenditure declined over the past two years.

President Joko Widodo inaugurated on Feb 4, 2021, the first of five sections of the 131-kilometer Binjai-Langsa toll road.