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Pakistan’s PSDP conundrum

ECONOMIC headlines in Pakistan are centred on big macro numbers, which often miss important insights. One such instance focused on the amount of ‘development’ expenditure released in the first month…

What Are We Missing? A Tale Of PSDP

What are we missing? A tale of PSDP

The Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) is one of the most important government sector endeavours. The PSDP is intended to prompt growth and bring in development mainly through infrastructure development,…

Rethinking The PSDP

Rethinking the PSDP

In finding the right mix for long-term economic growth in Pakistan, we may look also at the role of public investment and its main instrument, the PSDP. Given that it…

Review of the federal PSDP

The Federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) has been set at Rs 1001 billion for 2017-18. This represents a 'big push', with a 40 percent growth over the development spending…

Rs730 Billion Proposed For PSDP

Rs730 billion proposed for PSDP

Amid abstention by the Punjab chief minister and protests by the Balochistan government, the National Economic Council (NEC) raised the next financial year’s Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) to Rs300…

PSDP – An Analysis

PSDP – an analysis

Since the inception of Pakistan, a number of plans and policies have been made to formulate a sustainable developmental programme where no obstructions could hinder the development process. Economic development…

Underspending climate funds

PAKISTAN’S inability to efficiently utilise allocated development funds is severely hampering our economic progress and climate resilience efforts. With more than $2 billion underspent annually, the country’s absorption capacity has…

State of the economy

The first three quarters of 2024-25 have come to an end. This is the appropriate time for reviewing the state of the economy, as the federal and provincial budgets will…

Development gap of Balochistan

The province of Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan in terms of area. It has an area of 347,190 sq.kms, equivalent to 43.6% of the total geographical area of…