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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,...
The results of the seventh Population and Housing Census of Pakistan in 2023 have been announced recently by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)....
The year, 2022-23, closed with a truly remarkable reduction in the size of the current account deficit by 84% to just above $2.5 billion only from...
The devastation caused by the floods and the resulting supply shortages, along with severe import restrictions, has led to a big loss of growth in the...
The current financial year, 2023-24, started on a very positive note. The talks with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) were finally successful and...
A typical IMF (International Monetary Fund) programme, including a Stand-by Facility, has a set of quantitative performance criteria, indicative...
The IMF Stand-By Facility (SBF) of $3 billion has been in operation for two weeks now. Already, there is a big increase in external inflows. Foreign...
The balance of payments (BoP) figures for the full-year, 2022-23, have just been released by the SBP. They reflect many unusual features. Compared to...
There is finally some good news on the rate of inflation. The month of June has witnessed a big dip in the rate of inflation in the CPI of 8.6...
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has released the statement of May 2023 on Disbursement of Foreign Economic Assistance to Pakistan in the first eleven...
The high rate of population growth of Pakistan, among the highest in the world, has led to the emergence of a large youth bulge. Demographers and...
The consistent series of the GDP with one year, 2015-16, has been estimated and released by the PBS from 1999-2000 onwards. This now enables...
The federal budget for 2023-24 was announced recently. There was the expectation that the fiscal efforts for resource mobilization will be aggressive...
The economic prospects for Pakistan in 2023-24 have been presented in the Annual Plan prepared by the Planning Commission. This Plan has been approved...
The budget for 2023-24 will be presented by the federal government in the Parliament in the next few days. There has been a lot of speculation about...
The provisional estimates for 2022-23 of the GDP by sector and by expenditure have been released recently by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)....
The provisional estimates for 2022-23 of the GDP by sector and by expenditure have been released recently by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS)....
There is no end to the bad news on the on-going performance of the economy of Pakistan. Now we have been informed by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics...
The information on fiscal operations by the federal and provincial governments in the first nine months of 2022-23 has been released recently by the...
The rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has been persistently rising since September 2022, on a year-to-year basis. It...
The World Economic Outlook issue of April 2023 by the IMF contains detailed macroeconomic [AN1] projections at the individual country level from...
The economy is showing contrasting trends in different segments of activity. This is due to various factors like the severe stagflation, looming...
The IMF has made projections for 2023 and a number of subsequent years at the global and country level in its latest publication, World Economic...
The World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have both released economic projections of Pakistan. Both projections portray Pakistan as a...
The extremely worrying indicator today is the large and rapidly growing level of public debt, including the external liabilities, in Pakistan. As of...
Pakistan today faces the worst financial crisis in its 75-year history. This is attributable to both long-term trends and more recent developments....
The February figures of exports, imports and balance of trade have just been released. They tell a story of extreme contraction in the volume of...
The latest international trade statistics for the period, July to February, 2022-23, have just been released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics....
Pakistan is seeing today an unprecedented hike in the rate of inflation. The CPI has risen on a year-to-year basis in the month of February 2023 by as...
The Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has said recently in the context of Pakistan that ‘there is a...
The statistics on total debt of Pakistan as of end-December 2022 has been released recently by the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan). It stands at Rs 63.9...
The information on fiscal operations from July to December 2022 of the federal and the provincial governments has recently been released by the...
The technical discussions in Islamabad on the ninth review of the IMF programme between the IMF staff and the officials of the Ministry of Finance are...
The current combination of various negative factors is likely to lead to a big exponential jump in the number of unemployed and the poor in the...
The first six months of 2022-23 have witnessed considerable uncertainty about country’s economic prospects. Foreign exchange reserves have dwindled...
The previous article by this writer had presented the estimate of the GDP growth rate in 2022-23 as negative 1% from the supply-side in terms of the...
The World Bank has revised its projection downwards of the GDP growth rate of the economy of Pakistan in 2022-23 from 4% to 2%. Presumably, this...
Pakistan today is experiencing high and rising rate of inflation. This is the highest inflation after 1973-74 and 1974-75 when it rose to 30% and 27%...
The public eye has been focused on the on-going confrontation between the federal government of the PDM and the PTI–PML(Q) provincial government in...
The foreign exchange reserves of the SBP have plunged to $6,116 million as of 16th of December 2022. There has been a decline in these reserves of...