Economic indicators in July 2022
The first month of 2022-23 which has just come to an end presents a mixed picture. Perhaps the most positive development is the big containment in the trade deficit during…
ARTICLES What do economic indicators say?
Briefing the Cabinet meeting this week in Islamabad, the Secretary of Finance told the cabinet that the country has achieved a stabilized economy with the gross domestic product a record…
Beyond macroeconomic indicators
Economists, policy practitioners, politicians and international agencies in Pakistan are obsessed with macroeconomic indicators as a way to measure and achieve national progress. They keep on writing and challenging each…
Macroeconomic indicators improve but poverty worsens
The advisor to the prime minister on finance Shaukat Tareen showed strong optimism recently when he stated that the steps taken by the government during the last few months has…
Economic prospects of Gilgit-Baltistan : Part II
Community organizations have built bridges, irrigation channels and other small infrastructure projects at much lower costs as they participated in the supply of labour and land parcels for these projects.…
An economic forecast
The economic problems Pakistan faces right now are similar to what the PTI had faced. In 2019, with low foreign exchange reserves and high deficits, the PTI government had failed…
Roadmap to economic recovery [Part – II]
The first part in this series (Roadmap to economic recovery’, June 20) discussed why we keep falling into crisis situations. It avers that the economy does not focus on growth.…
Economic downslide
The alarming downslide of Pakistan on the economic front has only been adding to the miseries of the people of Pakistan. The most crucial questions are: how can the country…
Roadmap to economic recovery [Part – IV]
Recent news has kept us stirred up with the ups and downs of our deal with the IMF. We are at a stage where taking on debt, not for a…
The challenge of economic revival Jul 15, 2022
Pakistan’s macroeconomic imbalances have assumed dangerous proportions and the hope for economic recovery is yet to materialise. Absence of any concrete plan for revival has led to a situation where…
