Efficient S&T policies to help strengthen Pakistan

STAFF REPORT KARACHI: Pakistan needs to invest in science and technology to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through sustained and enhanced economic growth.“Issues like employment generation, enhancing market efficiency and climate change are some of the critical challenges confronting Pakistan, which need to be overcome in order to meet millennium development goals,” former HEC Chairman Prof Dr Atta ur Rehman while speaking at the first marketing and branding summit here last week.He said that effective science and technology policies are crucial to the development of Pakistan in two distinct yet interconnected ways.Firstly, science and technology can provide tools that help alleviate the specific problems that afflict our nation and impede their development prospects, such as disease, lack of infrastructure and degradation of the environment, Rehman said. Secondly, science and technology are central to the dynamics of economic development itself.The summit underlined the need for developing effective understanding among professionals about emerging marketing and branding issues and share industry best practices.Other speakers said that the focus of marketing and branding professionals should be on how to go through this rapidly changing world.
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