Claims and counter claims
There is a visible disconnect between two statistics routinely uploaded on the Finance Division’s website in the monthly Outlook and Update dating back to the time the incumbent government was…
Measures aimed at checking inflation
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October 2024 was 7.2 percent against 6.9 percent the month before – a rise of 0.3 percent which, barring June 2024 when it rose…
Pakistan’s food insecurity dilemma
PAKISTAN’S new government will face old and persistent problems. The most ominous challenges relate to the state of the economy and, in particular, the food insecurity faced by the poorest…
Policy rate: a cut is likely?
Despite a decline in inflation, overall costs are still growing this year in comparison to prior years. Regarding inflation, let me remind everyone that core inflation is not the benchmark…
PTI needs to introspect about its own motives
PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) may be ready for the elections but the real question is whether the party is ready for governance. The question is: Does it have the capacity and…
Lack of prudent macroeconomic policies
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design” — Friedrich von Hayek Pakistan is facing a…
Inflation: the fault is in ourselves
Inflation has reached politically untenable levels in the ongoing year, considerably higher than the high rates prevailing in previous years that were the cause of serious concern to the Khan…
Doesn’t matter who is/becomes FM
SBP’s (State Bank of Pakistan’s) surprise 100 basis point increase in its key policy rate (to a 24-year high of 16pc) effectively spells the end of the Darnomics experiment as…
A consensus on the economy
Endorsing the previous government’s relief package by turning down the summary of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) for an increase in prices, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has decided…
This time isn’t different
The former combined opposition parties that backed Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister have been shaken by the size and age diversity of the crowds attending Imran Khan’s rallies. These are…
