Pakistan’s decade long subdued GDP growth rate would significantly improve to over eight percent following the commissioning of multi-billion...
INSIGHT All official projections and estimates set for 2017-18 are fast getting unattainable mainly due to the political battle on Panama leaks,...
OPINION The fast paced dollarisation of the economy has started taking place because of roaring speculations being made in the wake of the...
INSIGHT The economic cost of prolonged political confrontation is further getting heavier whose latest victim is Pakistan’s currency that has...
INSIGHT The unfortunate lengthening of shadows over the political horizon are continuously turning the tide against the struggling economy, forcing...
INSIGHT For the first time, after the completion of its three year funding programme, the International Monetary Fund , has admitted that fiscal...
INSIGHT With the passage of 2017-18 federal budget sans the participation of the opposition, perplexing issues are confronting the government that...
INSIGHT Unanticipated fast paced developments on the internal and external fronts are likely to increase uncertainty and further hurt the already...
The federal budget for 2017-18 pledges very little to spur the much needed real growth but does speak of an expansionary and very inflationary...
Pakistan-China close-cooperation strengthening got an enormous push, following a decision by the two governments to massively develop Pakistan’s...
INSIGHT Crunch bells have started ringing in an election year, forcing the beleaguered PML government to desperately look for more external...
INSIGHT Pakistan’s fragile economy continues to suffer due to growing political instability, now being witnessed more intensely due to the...
INSIGHT The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government is contemplating various proposals to make available required funds for its populist fifth and...
INSIGHT The decision taken by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the infamous Panama leaks has raised many questions amid the critics, as well as the...
The government’s financial worries are rapidly worsening despite borrowing heavily from banks, including the State Bank of Pakistan . The...
INSIGHT Finance minister Ishaq Dar along with his economic team concluded Article IV annual consultations with the International Monitory Fund in...
INSIGHT The country’s export sector is choking fast and warrants innovative short and long term measures urgently to arrest declining exports...
INSIGHT The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government is racing to complete numerous development projects, including some of the early harvest...
INSIGHT The fragile economy is threatening sustainable and inclusive growth and is becoming a bigger challenge for the next budget due to the...
INSIGHT The prolonged period of political uncertainty arising out of Panama gate is threatening the struggling economy, and the battle ground now...
INSIGHT The country’s undocumented economy is to face harsh measures in the new budget aimed at limiting cash transactions through further...
INSIGHT TThe central bank is considering a number of alternatives to stabilise the existing exchange rate policy aimed at increasing exports and...
INSIGHT The first six months of 2016-17 have witnessed an unwarranted 55 percent fiscal deficit and 90 percent current account deficit leaving...
INSIGHT Pakistan’s GDP growth rate has not been as great as the policy makers and the government had hoped for, and has not surged to 4.5...
INSIGHT Pakistani economy suffered tragically due to the callous handling by three major political parties in the last few years with no one...
INSIGHT Pakistan Stock Exchange 100-index has achieved another milestone by being bullish to cross 50,000- point level last week and has been...
INSIGHT The International Monitory Fund’s prescribed preference of fiscal consolidation over growth did not yield enough results to help...
INSIGHT The uncertainty triggered by Panama leaks is refusing to die down, with its major casualty being the country’s struggling economy for...
INSIGHT Fiscal deficit - the mother of all economic ills - has alarmingly increased in the first quarter of 2016-17, which does not bode well for...
INSIGHT The failure in managing the declining key macroeconomic indicators is resulting in low growth and the issue may turn serious in 2020-21 as...
POLICY The belligerent Pakistan Muslig League-Nawaz government is once again confronting an embarrassing situation for unilaterally restricting...
COMMENT The successful completion of Rs22 billion Turbat-Hoshab-Sorab section of the western route under China-Pakistan Corridor Project in a...
Pakistan remains far behind regional economies in promoting savings and investment, which makes it difficult for planners to achieve high single...
FINANCE Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government’s reckless domestic and external borrowing is scaling new peaks, as a result of which twin...
INSIGHT The size of the informal economy is growing at a phenomenal rate that is causing serious problems for policy makers to increase taxes and...
INSIGHT The eight-month long controversy over Panama Papers has eclipsed economic decision making, causing problems for the five major sectors -...
INSIGHT Jolted by the stunning upset victory of a political outsider in the White House, Pakistan fears new protectionist policies that may also...
INSIGHT Over the years, Pakistan’s regulations to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism have been strengthened to an extent,...
INSIGHT Pakistan’s highly vulnerable external sector is causing huge problems to the country’s economy, forcing the International...
INSIGHT After giving a clean bill of health to the Pakistani economy in all its 12 reviews, the officials of the International Monetary Fund have...
INSIGHT The government is struggling to improve the much needed macroeconomic fundamentals and the task is getting harder following the negative...
INSIGHT The World Bank and International Monitory Fund have given up their overt and covert opposition against the China Pakistan Economic...
FINANCE Overcoming menacing delays, the government seems all set to work out the 9th National Finance Commission award before the next budget with...
As the Pakistan Muslim league-Nawaz tenure starts to slide downhill towards the next election, lofty promises and larger than life claims made by...
INSIGHT The country’s rising external debt is fast becoming unsustainable and likely to start causing serious problems to the economy after...
FOCUS The difference of opinion between the government and the independent economists/ financial writers over the officially stated GDP growth rate...
INSIGHT The declining exports, home remittances and foreign direct investment are making the struggling economy vulnerable; while the slow pace of...
INSIGHT The political temperature continues to rise due to revelation after revelation against 200 Pakistanis involved in the Panama leaks,...
INSIGHT The much needed political stability, without which there cannot be any economic stability, is yet again jeopardised as the issue of Panama...
FOCUS The new trade policy once again seeks to achieve the formidable $35 billion export target by 2018, but without ensuring the resolution of...
