Premier Khan OK’s social protection framework for vulnerable segments including the YOUTH

ISLAMABAD, Nov 26th 2018: A meeting of the EAC – Economic Advisory Council was held in Islamabad. The comprehensive framework aims at overcoming poverty, health, stunted growth, education and empowering the youth.
The comprehensive social protection framework is focused at overcoming the challenges of poverty, health, stunted growth, education and would enable the youth to realise their potential and extricate themselves out of the generational poverty traps.
Chairing a meeting of the Economic Advisory Council, the prime minister also approved the policy recommendations for a medium-term structural reform framework of the economy, read a statement issued by the PM Office media wing.
Finance Minister Asad Umar, Minister for Planning Khusro Bakhtiar, premier’s adviser Dr Ishrat Hussain, former State Bank governor Syed Saleem Raza, Lahore School of Economics professor Dr Naved Hamid, economist Sakib Sherani, Associate Professor at LUMS Dr Faisal Bari, and other senior officials were present during the meeting.