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Dr Hafiz A PashaBusiness Recorder |
The SBP has released the estimate of the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Index of the rupee in December 2024. It stands at 103.7, as compared to...
Pakistan’s merchandize exports have shown double-digit growth rate of 10.5 percent in the first half of 2024-25. This must be deemed a good...
This is the appropriate time to review progress on implementation of the reforms committed to the IMF in the new IMF Extended Fund Facility of...
The year 2025 will come after a year which has witnessed both positive and negative trends. The GDP growth rate has shown no improvement and has...
There has been celebration about the surplus of USD 944 million from July to November 2024 in the current account (C/A) of the balance of payments....
The very good news is that there has been a precipitate drop in the rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the...
The Population and Housing Census of 2023 has generated a lot of useful information on key indicators. The statistics are available at the...
The statistics on the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) has been released recently for the first quarter of 2024-25 by the Pakistan Bureau of...
The level of external inflows into Pakistan is of vital importance in ensuring a ‘safe’ level of foreign exchange reserves and ensuring...
The previous article had highlighted the problems with the macroeconomic projections by the IMF in the Staff Report of September 2024 on the new...
An IMF delegation has probably arrived in Pakistan to conduct a ‘stock-taking’ as indicated by the Finance Minister. This is, therefore, the...
The first quarter of 2024-25 has closed with an unusual and extremely positive outcome. There is actually a budgetary surplus of Rs1,537 billion....
The Staff Report on the new 37-month Extended Fund Facility by the IMF of $7 billion contains a number of structural benchmarks, along with their...
The newly approved IMF Programme in the form of a 37-month Extended Fund Facility can be considered as perhaps the toughest ever for Pakistan. This...
There have been two very recent sets of macroeconomic projections for Pakistan. The first is in the IMF Staff Report on the Extended Fund Facility...
There is an air of general optimism about the economy today. The Extended Fund Facility of $7 billion was approved by the IMF Executive Board...
The year, 2023-24, has witnessed the lowest ever level of fixed investment in Pakistan. It is estimated at 11.4% of the GDP. This is in comparison...
The first quarter of 2024-25 is going to come to an end shortly. During these three months, there have been a number of developments on the...
The SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) has released figures of total debt and public debt of Pakistan as of end-June 2024. The total public debt of the...
The first two months of 2024-25 have already revealed serious problems with the overall and individual revenue targets for FBR taxes....
The latest Pakistan Economic Survey for 2023-24, released in June, contains a comprehensive set of estimates on the multifarious features of the...
The Federal Ministry of Finance has released the estimates of poverty-related expenditures for 2022-23. Thanks are due to the PRSP Secretariat of...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has recently disseminated the detailed results of the 7th Population and Housing Census of Pakistan,...
The statistics on the outcome of fiscal operations by the federal and provincial governments in 2023-24 were released recently by the federal...
The Federal Ministry of Finance has released the Medium-Term Budget Strategy Statement for the period, 2024-25 to 2026-27. The Fiscal...
The statistics on the external balance of payments of Pakistan in 2023-24 were released last week by the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan). These...
The provincial budgets for 2024-25 have all been presented last month in the respective Provincial Assemblies. However, they have not received much...