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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 corridor: unfinished agenda

Although much steam out of CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) has been let out, the unquestionable positivity demonstrated on it by Pakistan and China, from time to time, makes this…

Empowering Sindh through STEAM

While the demand for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) skills is projected to grow significantly in future job markets, it is essential to explore how well education systems,…

Global conflicts, economic uncertainties

2024 emerged as a comparatively optimistic period in contrast to the challenging preceding years marked by Covid-19 pandemic. In its aftermath, global economy faced significant upheavals, with numerous businesses shutting…

Claims of economic improvement

The narrative of the stakeholders today is that there has been a noticeable uptick in various macroeconomic indicators – those that relate to the productive sectors (agriculture, industry), those that…

Lack of economics behind politics Feb 12, 2024

The marriage between politics and economics is well established globally though in Pakistan political parties’ economic agenda varies little mainly due to the imposition of standard time bound quantitative conditions…

The missing economic manifesto clarity

As Pakistan enters a new election cycle, it is imperative that political parties should come up with not only actionable steps but to indicate very clearly whether the economic philosophy…

Widening Indo-Pak economic divide

This is the final part of a two-part series of articles, highlighting the differences between India and Pakistan’s state of the economy. Cricket, a great if not the only unifier…