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• Sunday | 19 Apr, 2020
• Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Mohammad Yasin, Mahmood A. Khwaja, Mahnoor Arshad, Shakeel Ahmed Ramay, Tahira Shams, Qurratulain, Khansa Naeem, Syed Shujaat Ahmed
• Research and News Bulletin
• 48

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Combating COVID 19: Policy Options for Pakistan

• It is difficult to manage economy and corona simultaneously. People should be put over economy in these testing times.
• The budget strategy document for 2020-21 prepared in preCOVID 19 context has turned irrelevant. National Economic Council should revise the estimates for the forthcoming budget.
• An urgent meeting of Council of Common Interest is needed to show uniformity and solidarity among provinces.
• NDMA, IPC and health ministry must prepare a combined strategy to save the lives of people.
• There is a need to divert unutilized funds and allocations from different institutions like BISP, Workers Welfare Fund, PSDP, Baitul Maal, etc. to finance and implement the response strategy.