Adding $80 billion to the GDP
Can you name the country where women have the smallest share of senior, managerial and legislative roles? Can you name the country that has one of the largest gaps between…
Can you name the country where women have the smallest share of senior, managerial and legislative roles? Can you name the country that has one of the largest gaps between…
The previous article by this writer had presented the estimate of the GDP growth rate in 2022-23 as negative 1% from the supply-side in terms of the sectoral growth rates.…
The World Bank has revised its projection downwards of the GDP growth rate of the economy of Pakistan in 2022-23 from 4% to 2%. Presumably, this reflects the negative impact…
The latest Pakistan Economic Survey for 2021-22 reveals that the economy has performed well this year and the growth rate achieved is 5.97 percent. This comes on the back of…
The Governing Council of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has approved the new GDP estimates, following the exercise of rebasing from 2005-06 to 2015-16, somewhat belatedly. The editorial of the…
The PBS has released the revised estimate of the GDP growth rate for 2020-21. It has increased to 5.57 percent from the preliminary estimate of 3.94 percent. Clearly, the process…
The process of rebasing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) entails the replacement of an older base year with a more recent base year to keep up with price changes. The…
Provincial GDP figures for 2019-20 will be announced. The official number is likely to remain in the range of negative 0.6 percent to 0.7 percent. The IMF projection is of…
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has revealed the final estimate of the GDP growth rate for 2018-19 and the preliminary estimate of the GDP growth rate for 2019-20. This…
The Pakistan Economic Survey of 2019-20 gives the preliminary estimate of the GDP growth rate this year. It is a negative 0.4 percent. The last time the GDP declined in…