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
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
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
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…
When the chips are down
When the chips are down, the going gets tough and as a consequence taking hard and strategic decisions becomes inevitable. The incumbent government took two policy decisions this week with a…
A call for change and development
Reform, not begging, is the answer to all our economic and political problems. The question though is: which reform? The answers to this were discussed at a recent conference held…
Lessons from IMF’s Country Report
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published on November 17, 2023 Country Report No. 23/370 titled Pakistan Technical Assistance Report–Public Investment Management Assessment–PMIA and climate PMIA [hereinafter “the Report”] prepared during…
IMF review & state of economy
I expect an agreement on the review to come within this week, so, any day now. I can say that Pakistani authorities, the Minister of Finance, they deserve credit for…
Budgetary outcome in first quarter
The information on fiscal operations in the first quarter of 2023-24 by the Federal and the four Provincial governments has been released recently by the Federal Ministry of Finance. The…
