{"id":741295,"date":"2026-02-04T07:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/741295\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:47:11","slug":"doing-business-in-pakistan-34-more-expensive-than-in-regional-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/741295\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing business in Pakistan 34% more expensive than in regional peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/business-trends\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business trends<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Rising costs and red tape pushing workers away from entrepreneurship<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260202 Pakistan business\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Workers sew while others sort sheets of fabric\u00a0at a stitching unit of a\u00a0textile\u00a0manufacturer in Karachi\u00a0on\u00a0\u00a0Aug. 2, 2025. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>ADNAN AAMIR<\/p>\n<p>February 4, 2026 12:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ISLAMABAD &#8212; The cost of doing business in Pakistan is about one-third higher than in regional peers and the gap appears to be discouraging entrepreneurship and quietly pushing more people toward salaried employment instead of pursuing their own startups, recent private research shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business trends Rising costs and red tape pushing workers away from entrepreneurship Workers sew while others sort sheets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[178602,51,219463,3134,76858,20996,6026,89479,5039,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-741295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-178602","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-doing","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-expensive","13":"tag-more","14":"tag-pakistan","15":"tag-peers","16":"tag-regional","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116011259997310739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}