Colombia’s oil theft soars, leaving trail of environmental harm
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…
Growth takes the cake!
Several economic team leaders throughout the world rely on data manipulation to show a performance that is at odds with ground realities and yet, disturbingly, have convinced many a cabinet…
The Sri Lanka paradox [Part – II]
Sri Lanka recorded a rapid increase in public debt-to-GDP ratio to 119 per cent from 42 per cent over a few years. Access to the international capital market was lost,…
The rupee fall continues
Why is the rupee continuing to erode even after the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) tranche release of 1.17 billion dollars is a question that Finance Minister Miftah Ismail is responding…
Pakistan – a perennial Fund borrower
Twenty-third Interna-tional Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, on average three year per programme, in our 75 years of existence, implies that only in six years was Pakistan not on a Fund…
The challenge of economic revival Jul 15, 2022
Pakistan’s macroeconomic imbalances have assumed dangerous proportions and the hope for economic recovery is yet to materialise. Absence of any concrete plan for revival has led to a situation where…
First leverage then renegotiation
The Khan administration maintains that a change in government will not reverse the rise in price of any single item – be it in the category of administered prices (including…
Of this and that!
Pakistan hosted two foreign missions this week past - one, an operational mission sent by the Saudi government to determine areas of possible investment in Pakistan as agreed during Prime…
Between a rock and a hard place
There is debate in the country on whether the four and a quarter year long policy to keep the rupee overvalued will continue because it is no longer sustainable and/or…
IMF and the stalled second tranche
Questions are being raised as to when the 6 billion dollar International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility programme will resume, suspended post-March 2020 to enable the administration to deal…
