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Dr Hafiz A PashaBusiness Recorder |
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...
The data on the balance of payments in the first four months of 2023-24 has been released recently by the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan). There are both...
The first quarterly review of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Stand-by Facility has been successfully accomplished by the Government. The...
The Annual Report for 2022-23 on the State of the Economy by the SBP has been released recently. Along with a detailed review of developments on...
The information on fiscal operations in the first quarter of 2023-24 by the Federal and the four Provincial governments has been released recently by...
There have been unusual developments in the value of the rupee (PKR) during the last seven weeks. From a trend in the form of a declining value with...
The financial year, 2023-24, has started with an ambitious target for generation of cash surpluses by the four provincial governments by the end of...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has released the estimate of the rate of inflation in the national Consumer Price Index in September 2023....
The caretaker government has set up a tax reforms taskforce to come up with recommendations to close the ‘tax gap’ due to weak compliance, without...
The estimate of the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) for the month of July 2023 has recently been released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics....
The first quarter of 2023-24 is about to come to an end. It has been an eventful quarter. It started well with the finalization of the Stand-By...
Balochistan is the smallest province of Pakistan, with a share of 6.2% in the national population, according to the 2023 Population Census. However,...