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…
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…
The Pakistanis are battling an inflation rate of over 35 percent, a policy rate of 21 percent, depletion in value of their currency (PkR) by over 40 percent in the…
Pakistan gives a look of a perfect gridlock today. The 11-month-old coalition government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the PTI led by sacked prime minister Imran Khan continue…
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 blame game for the prevailing deep economic crisis continues with only one out of the three national parties, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), playing a relatively passive role in contributing…
Today all three national parties - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) – are fully supportive of projects under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).…
Millions in Pakistan are feeling the pain of a deepening economic crisis. The working and lower middle classes in Pakistan and around the world have spent most of the year…
The state of the economy today should be a source of serious concern to the eleven-party coalition government in power less than nine months – not because inflation is unchecked,…
Pakistan is facing the worst-ever economic crisis in its history. Fiscal and current accounts do not balance; and there is no sign that they will in the near future. As…
Privatisation has kept its relevance as a policy option in this country to this day – as a means to not only cut down ever-rising budgetary injections but also to…