Outlook for BoP
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. Reserves have increased significantly from…
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. Reserves have increased significantly from…
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 close to $17.5 billion…
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 2021-22, the current account deficit has…
A breath of fresh air. A ray of hope. The new government, however, is up against serious challenges. The rupee has lost 50 percent of its value over the past…
The much-awaited staff report of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) on the seventh and eighth reviews was released on the 1st of September 2022. It contains projections of key macroeconomic…
The statistics on the balance of payments (BoP) of Pakistan have been released recently by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for July 2022. Apparently, there is the good news…
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has just released the numbers on the external balance of payments (BoP) position for 2021-22. The current account deficit for the year has closed…
Pakistan today faces an incipient financial crisis. Gross foreign exchange reserves of the SBP stand at $10.8 billion as of the 8th of April. They have plummeted by $5.5 billion…
The balance of payments (BoP) numbers for the first seven months of 2021-22 have been released recently by the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan). The numbers are truly scary and…
The SBP has recently released the statistics on the balance of payments for Pakistan for the first quarter of 2020-21. It contains one piece of very good news. The current…