Budget FY25: Test of fiscal discipline
Walking a tightrope to balance income against expenditure without hurting the people and losing political capital has always remained a challenge for the finance minister of Pakistan who is making…
Budgetary outcome in first half of FY24
The information on the fiscal operations by the federal and the provincial governments in the first half of 2023-24 has been released by the federal ministry of finance. The overall…
Budget 2023-24: more business as usual
Budget 2023-24 can be celebrated for its bravado or mourned for its lack of seriousness. The economy is in deep trouble; with the Economic Survey 2022-23 depicting recessionary conditions. Every…
What’s in Budget 2023-24?
The editorial published in this paper yesterday (‘Budget 2023-24: nobody’s budget’, June 9) correctly pointed out that the finance minister’s attempt to please everyone while preparing the federal budget for…
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…
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…
Budget with a sanity deficit
At a time when Pakistan is going through some of the worst economic challenges in its chequered history, the federal government has come up with a budget that speaks volumes…
Budget FY23 and IMF’s programme
“Among the most difficult problems faced by developing countries is that of balancing a budget that is swollen by the cost of development. This problem is enhanced both by the…
FY23 budget: some new avenues
Pakistan is currently facing a series of challenges. The coalition government, led by Shehbaz Sharif, is trying to bridge the trade deficit, expected to be over Rs 5600 billion in…
