Petroleum Policy 2012
Petroleum Policy 2012 has been cleared by the Council of Common Interest with some changes and adjustments. Overall, it is a good forward-looking policy providing requisite incentives to the exploration…
Petroleum Policy 2012
Petroleum Policy 2012 has been cleared by the Council of Common Interest with some changes and adjustments. Overall, it is a good forward-looking policy providing requisite incentives to the exploration…
Petroleum Policy 2009
Advisor to the Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain released the Petroleum Exploration and Production Policy that constitutes a number of measures designed to support exploration…
Federal budget and pro-cyclical policy
The federal budget, due to come into effect in the next few days, has continued with the pro-cyclical policy approach, whereby as growth continues to remain stuck in a low…
Need for greater discretionary economic policy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has pushed for pro-cyclical, austerity-based policies in its Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) programme with Pakistan in line with its usual bread-and-butter policy prescription generally meted out…
Progressive fiscal policy
The Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has said recently in the context of Pakistan that ‘there is a need for collecting higher taxes from the…
What will the new energy policy be?
A PML-N led coalition government recently came into power following the infamous ouster of former prime minister Imran Khan. The new government was instantly riddled with a long list of…
Petrol, people and policy
The ‘tough’ and ‘bold’ decisions that this government was being urged to take are finally here. In fact, ‘shock therapy’ would be the more appropriate term to describe the government’s…
Petroleum price conundrum
A visibly agitated Finance Minister Miftah Ismail gave one press conference, addressed the All Parties Economic Recovery Conference and was a guest in at least five talk shows on Tuesday…
Saudi Arabia walks oil policy tightrope between Biden and Putin
Saudi Arabia’s push for swifter oil production hikes by OPEC+, which were agreed in June, involved behind-the-scenes diplomacy to ensure Russia backed the move that followed US appeals for more…
