Tsunami of price hikes
Pakistan has been ranked the world’s fourth most expensive country. Prices are skyrocketing, and no one knows when there will be an end to these hikes. Inflationary pressures are increasing…
Revamping price management
It’s almost every day that the Islamabad district administration publishes the rate list of fruits and vegetables on social media. People still always complain of retail shops overcharging shops by…
Growth & inflation statistics
OUR inflation data compiled by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is one the best datasets in the country. Its coverage is wide and not only does it follow data…
Inflation decline and no feel-good factor
The July inflation data was released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on the 1 of August, showing a decline in the Consumer Price Index to 11.1 percent as…
Dip in the rate of inflation
There has been a visible and welcome slowdown in the rate of inflation in February 2024. The year-to-year rate of inflation has come down from 28.3% in January to 23.1%…
‘It is a tale told by an idiot…’
Data collection and its dissemination is an exercise impacting on politics the world over; however, the capacity of any administration to manipulate data is a function of the system of…
The slowdown in real economy
Over the past month, it seems that the feel-good factor has returned. The stock market is in a bullish run and the currency is relatively stable. There are some small…
Inflation out of control
Consumer price index (headline inflation) rose by 31.5 percent in February (up by 3.7 percentage points from January), core inflation by 17.1 percent year on year (urban) and 21.5 percent…
The mishandling of economy continues
Finance Division in the January 2023 Economic Update/Outlook noted that fiscal deficit July-November 2022 was 1169 billion rupees against the July-October figure cited in the December Update of 1266 billion…
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…
