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The provincial budgets for 2024-25 have all been presented last month in the respective Provincial Assemblies. However, they have not received much...
The last week’s article on outlook for 2024-25 by this writer in Business Recorder had focused on the projections for the year of the GDP growth...
The fiscal year, 2024-25, promises to be an eventful year. It will see early negotiations between the Government of Pakistan and the International...
The Federal Budget for 2024-25 has been examined by the Parliament and following some amendments it has been implemented from the 1st of July for the...
The fiscal year 2023-24 is likely to close with a mixed performance by the economy. On the positive side, there has been a modest recovery in the GDP...
The Federal budget for 2024-25 has been presented in a mixed economic environment characterised by both positive and negative developments. The GDP...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has come up with a very pleasant surprise. The year-to-year rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer...
The IMF Staff Mission has left Pakistan after a series of meetings on the next Fund Programme in the form of an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for the...
The IMF Staff Report on the Second and Final Review under the Stand-by Arrangement was released on the 10th of May 2024. It contains a set of detailed...
Shehbaz Sharif declared an ‘education emergency’ across Pakistan on Wednesday, the 8th of May 2024. This is in recognition of the fact that with...
The outcome numbers on the fiscal operations for the first three quarters of 2023-24 have been released recently by the Federal Ministry of Finance. ...
The last few months have witnessed a major drop in the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. According to the Pakistan Bureau of...
The latest monthly data for February 2024 on the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) has been released recently by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics....
The Prime Minister has rightly lamented recently on the lack of access to education of children generally and especially from poor families or those...
This is the second article on the contours of a new IMF Programme. The first article was published last week. It focused on the projected external...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reiterated recently the need for moving ahead with a new IMF (International Monetary Fund) programme for a longer...
There have recently been some attacks on the 7th NFC award relating to the distribution of federal tax revenues between the federal and provincial...
The global Human Development Report of 2023-24 has been released recently by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) from New York. Since 1990,...
There has been a visible and welcome slowdown in the rate of inflation in February 2024. The year-to-year rate of inflation has come down from 28.3%...
There are a number of economic events and happenings in Pakistan which are difficult to find immediate and rational explanations for. This is the...
The balance of payments (BoP) statistics released by the State Bank of Pakistan for the period July 2023 to January 2024 reveal a positive picture....
The manifesto of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) contains a set of key macroeconomic targets from 2023-24 to 2028-29. This is the five-year...
The Staff Report of the IMF on the First Review under the Stand-By Arrangement was released on the 19th of January 2024. It contains a revised set of...
The information on the fiscal operations by the federal and the provincial governments in the first half of 2023-24 has been released by the federal...
The incidence of poverty has skyrocketed in Pakistan since the Covid-19 pandemic and the disastrous floods of 2022. The years 2019-20 and 2022-23 both...
Elections will hopefully be held in the next two weeks. They are taking place at a time when the economy continues to be characterized by severe...
The good news is that the IMF Executive Board has completed the First Review of the Stand-By Arrangement for Pakistan and authorized the immediate...
An article titled “Economic Turnaround Moment?” has recently been published in the newspaper, Dawn. It has been written by Martin Raiser, World...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has been endeavoring to improve the quality and coverage of statistics in Pakistan. These efforts include the...
The statistics on the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) has been released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) for the month of October 2023....
The statement released recently by the Monetary Policy Committee of the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) indicates that the policy rate will remain...
The first five months of 2023-24 have witnessed upturns and downturns both globally and within Pakistan. There was earlier some evidence that the...
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has released recently the Revenue Division Year Book for 2022-23. This is a very useful publication and highlights...