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Pakistan Economic Team And The IMF

Pakistan economic team and the IMF

Monetary Fund (IMF) team. Initially the Ministry of Finance claimed that the scheduled meeting may be transformed into a review mission that would reactivate the stalled Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) thereby…

Economic Team Needs A Revisit

Economic team needs a revisit

A little over one month after the federal budget for 2011-12 became effective few believe that any of the budgetary targets would be met. The government has already been compelled…

Economic dystopia incentivized

Can you guess what country has the world’s worst financial inclusion statistics? It is Pakistan. With 115 million unbanked adults (adults with neither a bank account, nor a mobile money…

Pakistan: grave economic distress

On 26 January 2023 inanely shackling the dollar to what was nothing but wishful thinking ended and the interbank rate has been rising ever since - a policy decision in…

An economic slide

Ever since the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) came to power, the good governance myth of the top team of senior partner in the ruling coalition, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is…

Economic framework yet to be finalized

Setting the bar unrealistically high or looking at filling the glass up to more than capacity by any administration can be supported on the grounds that it may propel the…

Economic meltdown?

As Pakistan’s economic team begins meeting with IMF officials in Doha today (May 18) to pave the way for more funds from the Washington-based lender, the writing on the wall…