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Muhammad Afnan Alam
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Muhammad Afnan Alam
Muhammad is a career federal government civil servant from Pakistan
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Asia Pacific's ESG policy landscape
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ESG in the Asia Pacific region: challenges remain on policy adoption
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The G7 tax deal is an opportunity to reverse the race to the bottom
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Raast – a step towards digitizing Pakistan public finances
Pakistan’s new micropayments system is set to speed up pay and pension payments for 2.7 million...
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Understanding Lebanon’s economic free fall
Muhammad Afnan Alam takes an in-depth look at the economic crisis that has engulfed Lebanon, that...
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Asian countries need a sukuk finance push to kick-start their economies
Muhammad Afnan Alam outlines the role Sukuks are expected to play this year and beyond in Asia and...
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Asian governments embrace digital communications during pandemic
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Coronavirus has shone a light on difficulties faced by local government in Pakistan
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Massive fiscal stimulus is likely to cause a debt deluge for Asian governments
Huge fiscal responses to the Covid-19 pandemic are being announced around the world, not least in...
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Asian governments’ responses to coronavirus are unprecedented and radical
Asian governments have introduced radical fiscal policy measures to beat the impact of COVID-19....
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