Outlook for FBR Revenues
The revised budget for 2018-19 presented by the new government has brought down somewhat the FBR revenue target for the year from Rs 4435 billion to Rs 4398 billion. This…
IMF’s anti-corruption role
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to add stricter anti-corruption clauses to its already long list of conditionalities to all its future loan arrangements. The Fund has made promises…
The need for governance
The article, ‘A number game’ published in these pages on October 31, should be an eye-opener for those running the show in the HEC. In order to effectively act as…
Down but not out: fears ease over China’s weaker yuan
A year ago on Thursday Chinese authorities stunned global markets by devaluing their yuan currency, raising fears the world's second-largest economy was worse off than thought - but investors are…
Monitoring And Evaluation: A Neglected Field In Pakistan
Pakistan spends billions of rupees in infrastructure development projects through PSDP every year. Beside this Pakistan also receives millions of dollars annually to execute various social and development projects. In…
Privatisation blues
The PML-N’s privatisation agenda is in trouble. Halfway through its tenure, it has not chalked any major achievements in this area, as true too in other economic areas like energy…
Pakistan’s failing exports
Pakistan’s exports have floundered in the past year and a half. After an increase of nearly 3pc in 2013-14, the US dollar value of exports declined by 5pc in 2014-15.…
Blame the provinces, get waivers
Although we were unable to meet two key performance benchmarks of the programme, the IMF took a lenient view of these failings and granted waivers – accumulating to 12, the…
Hope from history
For those younger Pakistanis born in the 1990s and later, the country’s growing dysfunctionality and its slipping further behind in the global comity of nations across a wide front, has…
US workers, employers test ‘unlimited vacation’
Unlimited vacation policies, which have so far been adopted by only a handful of US businesses, have been embraced by both workers and their employers, who say the flexibility increases…
