Fair game for the IMF
The IMF and the government of Pakistan have reached an agreement on yet another arrangement after a separation and then divorce from the previous standby arrangement between them. This is…
Confronting economic challenges
Pakistanis are entitled to congratulations on their courage and will to install a democratic government in Pakistan. Despite all threats people from all walks of life participated in elections and…
The challenge of recognition
Educational reforms are vociferously demanded by the Pakistani civil society and their cause is almost incessantly propped up by the media through documentary programmes and mass advertising campaigns. However, in…
US tries to secure foothold in Africa’s upcoming boom
Barack Obama will land to not much fanfare from the South African public for his first trip to the country as US president. He comes at a time when South…
Japanese divided over ‘Abenomics’ despite global acclaim
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned from the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland a happy man, saying the leaders of the world's biggest economies had endorsed his own economic programme.…
Budget and economic management
Management of an economy is the most arduous assignment for the governments owing to the socio-economic complexities and the linkages of the economy with the outside world. Monetary and fiscal…
Budget 2013-14: Concluding Speech
Alongside is the text of concluding speech delivered by Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Federal Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation, in the National Assembly on 22nd June…
A smart move
The monetary policy decision boiled down to a trade-off between lower inflation and Balance of Payments woes. Reportedly the Monetary Policy Committee was split in its decision and the central…
More of the same?
As one may recall, while the budget for the Financial Year 2011-12 was being presented in the National Assembly, the opposition members from the PML-N had presented the finance minister…
Numbers from a hat
Sleight of hand, a rose-tinted view of revenues and external inflows and a hopefully supportive State Bank: the budget, long on rhetoric and short on action (to reflect a road…
