The future of SOEs [Part – II]
State owned enterprises in Pakistan have significant market presence, particularly in key service sectors like power generation and distribution, energy, aviation, and railways. The overall revenues of all the SOEs…
State owned enterprises in Pakistan have significant market presence, particularly in key service sectors like power generation and distribution, energy, aviation, and railways. The overall revenues of all the SOEs…
A detailed and rigorous exercise was undertaken to examine each SOE based on the ownership rationale and its financial performance as explained earlier, and all the commercial SOEs were categorized…
State-Owned Entities (SOEs) continue to be the recipients of large annual budgeted injections in Pakistan and administration after administration has pledged to either initiate restructuring measures with the objective of…
The 190 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) comprising Public Sector Companies (PSCs), Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and Authorities, employing a total of over 425,000 personnel, incur a colossal loss of around Rs…
The enthusiasm to turn around State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) through a newly-established entity Sarmaya-i-Pakistan Ltd (SPL) appears to be fading away. The government is reported to be now considering moving ahead with…
One of the IMF key benchmarks for the current Extended Fund Facility programme is the settlement of the fate of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This in fact is a sore point…
The Federal Ministry of Finance has published a report recently on the state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The focus is on the triage of reforms and the way forward. This report has…
Pakistan has a long history of a mixed economic system, starting with laissez-faire and the all-out nationalisation of industries and businesses and ending up with experiencing privatisation. The concept of…
The federal cabinet has approved the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Bill 2021 proposing governance reforms in the management and oversight of cash bleeding public sector. A detailed report titled “State-Owned Enterprises…
The federal government, in the third year of its five- year tenure, is reported to have decided to conduct forensic audit of ten loss-making State-Owned Entities (SOEs) for the FY2016-…