A budget for growth
As Pakistan prepares for its upcoming Budget 2025-26, it finds itself once again caught between the stringent demands of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme and the aspirations of a…
Future of UN climate dialogue threatened by budget shortfal
The leading UN body on climate change is experiencing a severe budget shortfall, according to a Reuters analysis of documents from the world body - a funding gap that diplomats…
A social democratic, green, mission-oriented budget
In contrast to the usual approach to a budget discourse based on ideas around raising taxes, and expenditure allocations with slight hints of expanding the tax base, and having progressivity,…
Flawed budgetary measures
Pakistan’s prevailing outlook paints a grim picture of a state in deep trouble. In view of perpetual political instability coupled with the economic meltdown, the country has been grappling with…
Afghanistan coffers swell
A dusty logjam of trucks inches across a rut in the mountains splitting Pakistan and Afghanistan, teeming with a cargo of fruit and coal — and paying the Taliban authorities…
FY23 budget: need for fiscal reforms
“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think but the will to act” – Plato The coalition government of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM),…
Budget-making in a pandemic
Pakistan’s economy which was already in the intensive care unit (ICU), has since February this year gone into a tailspin deepening further the on-going recession induced earlier by an IMF-…
Actualizing budget targets
The task of preparing a perfect budget is challenging in normal times. Today, when coronavirus is ravaging the world economy and uncertainty is at an all-time high, the task is…
Making a good budget great
The domestic political consensus about Pakistan’s economy is in. It isn’t a good look for anyone that dreams of a better day for the country’s vast majority of poor, illiterate,…
Mid-year budget review – 2019-20
The Federal Ministry of Finance has formulated the mid-year budget review 2019-20. Subject to its review by the Federal Cabinet and the National Assembly the report would be rolled out…
