It’s of little surprise that many savvy investors and
financial analysts are paying close attention to where Pakistan goes next in
the world market. Despite a series of, what seemed to be endlessly, local
environmental, communal and political turmoil, the county, regardless of
population growth rate, has shown steady improvement.
This kind of upward economic consistency is what major super
power, first world developed countries stay up late at night worrying and
praying for. However, Pakistan seems to have accomplished such a feat, even in
the midst of problematic decades the nation has had to face.
The World Bank in April earlier this year, 2014, commented
the following.
“Inflation is steady at 7.9%. The fiscal deficit is
contained at around six percent of GDP due to improved tax collection and
restricted current and development expenditure. The current account deficit
remains modest, at around one percent of GDP, supported by strong remittances
and export dynamism, and the external position is slowly improving since
monetary and exchange rate policies switched gear towards rebuilding reserves
last November.
Economic activity is gradually improving says the report.
Preliminary data for Fiscal Year 2014 (July 2013-June 2014) shows economic
growth is picking up, driven mainly by services and manufacturing. Acceleration
in growth of large-scale manufacturing came from strong performance of agro-based
industries, iron and steel, construction, and external demand-driven cotton
yarn- and fabrics-based textiles.”
To read the article from the World Bank in full.
Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson has been among the few that has
identified the opportunities in Pakistan, and has been set in helping to
further Pakistan. Among Lord Neil Gibson’s projects, the ISBU Housing Project
remains one of the most important.
Lord Neil B. Gibson commented, “With the last few years
natural disaster and political unrest tragedies, many people have become
homeless and in dire need of housing. Pakistanis are hard working and
intelligent people, but when they are struggling for shelter, not only for
themselves but their families, productivity naturally is effected. Survival
instincts kick in. It’s only natural that everything else becomes secondary.
Give them housing, the basics to live, and watch how these people will
contribute to their country and then the world.”
Lord Gibson and SFBBL AG through the SEED Foundation have
been developing and preparing a Pakistan-specific housing project using
discarded ISBU structures (storage container units) as an immediate, highly
cost effective means to solve the overwhelming residential housing issues
plaguing the nation.
“Shipping container homes are incredible durable and
extraordinarily cost efficient by comparison to other, arguably traditional
style housing. The time to build is dramatically less that other types of
housing, and with architects and interior design technology what it has become
today, shipping container homes are on par if not surpass the design of the
home models,” concluded Neil Gibson.
“We are living in a time where thought and technology no
longer lag behind one another, and the means to orchestrate change can be
communicated in seconds.”
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