Low inflows of external financing
The first quarterly review of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Stand-by Facility has been successfully accomplished by the Government. The efforts of the caretaker Government to adhere to the agreed…
External financing requirements
This article is in response to the well-documented and well-written article on Ensuring External Stability by the Deputy Governor of the SBP in a recent issue of this newspaper. He…
Inflow of external financing
Pakistan's external debt and liabilities first crossed the level of $100 billion in March 2019. Consequently, the external debt to GDP ratio reached the peak of over 36 percent. Bulk…
Financing of external payments
The outstanding external debt of Pakistan crossed the century mark early this year. It stands as of the end of March 2019 at $105.8 billion, according to the figures released…
Ebbing of external inflows
The release of information recently by multiple sources has highlighted some worrying trends in external financing inflows into Pakistan. The SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) has put on its website…
Level of external inflows
The level of external inflows into Pakistan is of vital importance in ensuring a ‘safe’ level of foreign exchange reserves and ensuring relative stability in the value of the rupee.…
Challenging gross financing requirements
Pakistan is about to enter into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A July 12 press release from IMF indicated that ‘The Pakistani authorities…
Big financing risks
The IMF Staff Mission has left Pakistan after a series of meetings on the next Fund Programme in the form of an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for the next three…
The ebb of external inflows
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has released the statement of May 2023 on Disbursement of Foreign Economic Assistance to Pakistan in the first eleven months of 2022-23. The year 2022-23…
Gross financing, and medium-term economic strategy
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Country Report No. 22/288, released in September 2022 – the last such report released, since there have been no successful programme reviews completed since then, given…
