The budget 2023-24
The government’s negotiators are citing the pending International Monetary Fund (IMF) ninth review as well as the need to table the budget for 2023-24 and get its approval from parliament…
Budgetary outcome in 1HFY23
The information on fiscal operations from July to December 2022 of the federal and the provincial governments has recently been released by the federal ministry of finance. The consolidated budget…
On a budget
At the beginning of each month, a salaried person might find themselves gleeful over receiving the fruit of their labour. This sense of delight often brings with it a paradoxical…
Biden’s budget
From the UK to Germany and the US to India, inflation has affected billions of people. Not only are working-class people in several countries reeling under the weight of the…
Unrealistic budget of 2022-23
The budget of 2022-23 has been framed with agreement of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) as part of the ongoing Extended Fund Facility which is expected to continue up to…
Suicide budget
In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested $2.1 trillion in the ability to make war – to kill one another, even (if necessary) to end…
On reading the budget
The concluding statement of the talks held in Doha between the government of Pakistan and the IMF Mission last month reads: “The [IMF] team emphasized the urgency of concrete policy…
A survivor’s budget
The budget for FY2022-23 is here. Given the current national and international situation, the budget-making was bound to be challenging. In this piece, I attempt to explain some of the…
After the budget
Pakistan’s stocks began trading this week with a thumbs-down view of the economic policies of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, in a clear rebuke of the recently installed ruling coalition…
How accessible is the budget?
Pakistan’s fiscal budget for the year 2022-23 is out and has been presented through several intriguing headlines – at times so emotionally worded that for a while you actually believe…
