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The IMF Staff Mission is arriving shortly in Pakistan to undertake the third review of the Extended Facility to Pakistan and the second review of the...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has released recently the findings from the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES). This survey was...
The SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) has released the figures of the balance of payments (BoP) of Pakistan for the first five months of 2025-26. The...
The SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) has released the figures of the balance of payments (BoP) of Pakistan for the first five months of 2025-26. The...
The Staff Report of the IMF after the completion by the Executive Board of the second review of the IMF Programme contains a set of macroeconomic...
The Staff Report of the IMF after the completion by the Executive Board of the second review of the IMF Programme contains a set of macroeconomic...
Pakistan continues to face extraordinary pressure to ensure large and sustained inflows of external financing. The foreign exchange reserves are at a...
Pakistan continues to face extraordinary pressure to ensure large and sustained inflows of external financing. The foreign exchange reserves are at a...
The Prime Minister recently launched the Youth Laptop Scheme 2025. Laptops were awarded to high achieving students at the launching ceremony. While...
The large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector has historically been one of the dynamic sectors in the national economy. For example, in the first decade...
The figures on the balance of payments for Pakistan for the first quarter of 2025-26 have been released recently by the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan). ...
The inflows of foreign investment in Pakistan have been extremely variable in nature. An analysis of the data from 1999-2000 onwards reveals...
The damage inflicted by the floods on the livelihoods of millions of people has once again raised concerns about the high and rising level of poverty...
The IMF Staff Mission is arriving shortly in Pakistan to undertake the second review of the on-going IMF Extended Fund Facility of USD 7 billion....
The State Bank of Pakistan has recently released estimates of the stock of debt of the country as of the end of 2024-25. The total debt is estimated...
The findings of the Agricultural Census of 2024 have been released recently by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). This was also a digital...
The President constituted the 11th National Finance Commission recently to announce a new award for the sharing of the federal tax revenues between...
The Population and Housing Census of 2023 provides very useful information on the living conditions of the over 241 million people of Pakistan. The...
The large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector has historically been one of the most buoyant sectors in the economy contributing thereby to higher GDP...
The detailed statistics on the fiscal operations by the federal and the provincial governments have recently been released by the Federal Ministry of...
The last three years have witnessed a negative combination of low GDP growth rate and high rate of inflation. This has led to two types of impacts....
The FBR revenue target always features as a key indicative target in the review process of IMF Programmes. The level of FBR revenues is also a key...
The balance of payments figures of Pakistan for the full year, 2024-25, were released a few days ago by the SBP. There is an overall balance of...
The federal budget of 2025-26 has given a negative signal on the priority to be attached to shelter. The mark-up subsidy of over Rs 21 billion in...
The investment figures for 2024-25 released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) portray a truly dismal picture. They reveal a sharp downward...
The federal and provincial budgets for 2025-26 have generally been approved by the respective legislative fora. Therefore, it is possible to get an...
The four provincial budgets were announced last week. The first budget presented was that of Sindh, followed by Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and...
The federal budget for 2025-26 has been announced recently. This has led to wide-ranging discussions in the media about the issues not addressed or...
There is generally a greater focus on the prospects for and likely features of the federal budget in the days before its presentation. This is...
One of the key indicators in the federal budget is the projected level of external financing to partly finance the budget deficit. The expectation in...
The federal and provincial budgets for 2025-26 are likely to be announced in early June. Already, the first review report by the IMF Staff, which was...
The press release of the 9th of May by the IMF highlights that the IMF Executive Board has completed the first review of the Extended Fund Facility...
The government debt outstanding is the debt that is to be serviced out of the Federal Consolidated Fund plus the debt with the IMF. It stands at Rs...
The process of preparation of the federal and provincial budgets is underway now and the respective budgets will be announced in the earlier part of...
The previous week’s article had focused on the growth performance of the economy from July 2024 to March 2025. An assessment was made of the likely...
The first three quarters of 2024-25 have come to an end. This is the appropriate time for reviewing the state of the economy, as the federal and...
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