Pakistan’s economy is addicted to debt. Lavish government spending, recklessly financed through borrowing has resulted in a precarious debt trap, a depreciated rupee, escalating inflation, and an economy on the…
Among macroeconomic indicators, primarily inflation has come down drastically over recent months, whereby consumer price index (CPI) has fallen from a high of 28.8 percent in January to 4.9 percent…
A recent ‘Transcript of Global Financial Stability Report April 2024 press briefing’, carried a rather very pertinent question regarding a possible need to revisit policy focus traditionally to control inflation…
In the following months, especially in the month of Ramazan, our main topic of discussion will be inflation and resultant price hike. As expected there will be political uproar at…
Overall inflation, compared to similar previous months of FY18, has been inching up from 5.1 percent in September 2018 to 9.4% in March 2019. For the ninth month period of…
It is common knowledge in Paki-stan that in the present day market mechanism, middlemen buy crops or product of the agriculturist 'upfront' much before the production as the agriculturists/producers do…
In its most recent monetary policy statement (MPS), released on September 16 by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the policy rate has been kept unchanged at 11 percent due to…
India’s world-beating economic growth is failing to translate into gains for equity markets as weakening pricing power and US tariffs weigh on corporate earnings, turning foreign investors away. Gross domestic…
Within economy, relegation of Ministry of Finance (MOF) to purely financial matters, and instead forming a ‘Ministry of Economy’ (MOEC) as the main ministry for the overall economic policy. Moreover,…
There seems to be a lot of focus on the working of ministry of finance, which is not to say that its role is in any way less important than…
