The GDP growth this year
The budgeted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate was an unrealistic 5 percent (10 June 2022), downgraded to 3 percent subsequent to the devastating floods and in recent reports the…
GDP growth in 2022-23 — II
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.…
GDP growth in 2022-23
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…
Overstatement of GDP growth rate
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…
GDP growth rate in 2020-21
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 GDP growth rate
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…
Overstating the GDP growth rate
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…
The GDP growth rate
The National Income Accounts Committee has endorsed the provisional GDP growth rate estimate by the PBS for 2018-19 at 3.3 percent and also the revised estimate of the growth rate…
Budget and GDP growth: export-led and bottom-up
Prime Minister Imran Khan in his speech in the parliament on the last day of the fiscal year highlighted that economic growth model for the country being followed is an…
From GDP growth to CDP growth
Macroeconomic figures are the first impression of a country's development. As they say first impression is the last impression. Not so, in every case. Numbers are crucial for measuring anything…
