'Digital Economy' To Boost GDP Up To $ 40 Billion Annually
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published October 17, 2019 | 05:17 PM
Digital economy in Pakistan' has huge potential for boosting country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up to the level of $ 40 billion, besides consolidating the local economy
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Oct, 2019 ):'Digital economy in Pakistan' has huge potential for boosting country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up to the level of $ 40 billion, besides consolidating the local economy.
Through the evolution of 'Digital Economy', Pakistan can rapidly achieve its economic agenda in all major sectors including trade and E-commerce, education and health for economic growth in the country, senior official of Ministry of Commerce informed APP on Thursday.
Pakistan needed to do extensively in digital economy as country have huge participation of global mobile market, with over 160 million mobile phone subscribers and around 150 million Internet users, he said.
He said : "We can improve public services in different sectors through the modern digital tools for providing rapid services to the people." The senior official said that Pakistan was a agriculture country and through the modern digital mechanism, the farmers and agriculture workers can improve their financial mechanism to connect with global value chain.
Replying to a question, he said that digital data integration system would play important role to improve the economic mechanism in all major sectors of country's economy.
He said : "It is also important for bridging the gap in economic and trade data process through integration of various data mechanism to reflect the true picture of economy including trade, industries, services and agriculture sector.
" To evolve the proper trade data mechanism to resolve the issues in trade data, the government intended to include export processing zones (EPZs) in its trade data collection system, which was not currently taken into account by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).
He pointed out that exclusion of exports, routed through the EPZs by the two organizations resulted into a difference of $1.2 billion between the actual exports and those reported by them.
The senior official said the federal cabinet had already approved the E-commerce policy for promoting the digital culture and paperless trade to help enhance the trade volume.
He said it was the government's priority to evolve the integrated trade data system and streamline the affairs by the end of October.
All the system would be linked to the Ministry of Commerce under the control of SBP to promote the culture of freelancing to capture opportunities in the global market through websites and other digital tools, he added.
He said the software export potential was not being exploited properly as three different software's were being used by freelancers to acquire the work deals from abroad.
He said mainly the youth were providing their services (to individuals/ firms abroad) through the freelancing system, but they were facing problems because of different softwares.
The government would facilitate them so that they could workwith ease, he added.
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