Opinion Latest IMF projections The Staff Report of the IMF on the First Review under the Stand-By Arrangement was released on the 19th of January... Published 13 Feb, 2024 05:59am
Opinion 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... Published 06 Feb, 2024 05:00am
Opinion Rising poverty The incidence of poverty has skyrocketed in Pakistan since the Covid-19 pandemic and the disastrous floods of 2022.... Updated 30 Jan, 2024 05:29am
Opinion Post-general election economic outlook Elections will hopefully be held in the next two weeks. They are taking place at a time when the economy continues ... Published 23 Jan, 2024 05:14am
Opinion IMF projections The good news is that the IMF Executive Board has completed the First Review of the Stand-By Arrangement for ... Updated 16 Jan, 2024 06:12am
Opinion Concerns of the World Bank An article titled “Economic Turnaround Moment?” has recently been published in the newspaper, Dawn. It has been... Published 09 Jan, 2024 04:18am
Opinion Problematic statistics The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has been endeavoring to improve the quality and coverage of statistics in... Published 02 Jan, 2024 05:21am
Opinion Fall in industrial production The statistics on the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM) has been released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics... Published 26 Dec, 2023 04:30am
Opinion Outlook for inflation The statement released recently by the Monetary Policy Committee of the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) indicates that... Published 19 Dec, 2023 05:20am
Opinion Mixed economic trends The first five months of 2023-24 have witnessed upturns and downturns both globally and within Pakistan. There was... Published 12 Dec, 2023 05:28am
Opinion Growth in federal tax revenues The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has released recently the Revenue Division Year Book for 2022-23. This is a very... Published 05 Dec, 2023 03:01am
Opinion Unusual balance of payments The data on the balance of payments in the first four months of 2023-24 has been released recently by the SBP (State... Updated 28 Nov, 2023 05:22am
Opinion Low inflows of external financing The first quarterly review of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Stand-by Facility has been successfully... Published 21 Nov, 2023 06:01am
Opinion Estimation of the quarterly GDP Pakistan has committed to the IMF in the Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, as part of the Stand-by... Updated 14 Nov, 2023 05:42am
Opinion SBP projections for 2023-24 The Annual Report for 2022-23 on the State of the Economy by the SBP has been released recently. Along with a... Published 07 Nov, 2023 07:02am
Opinion Budgetary outcome in first quarter The information on fiscal operations in the first quarter of 2023-24 by the Federal and the four Provincial... Published 31 Oct, 2023 05:26am
Opinion Value of PKR There have been unusual developments in the value of the rupee (PKR) during the last seven weeks. From a trend in ... Updated 24 Oct, 2023 05:50am
Opinion The state of provincial finances The financial year, 2023-24, has started with an ambitious target for generation of cash surpluses by the four... Updated 17 Oct, 2023 06:59am
Opinion Spurt in inflation The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has released the estimate of the rate of inflation in the national Consumer... Updated 10 Oct, 2023 06:47am
Opinion Improving tax compliance The caretaker government has set up a tax reforms taskforce to come up with recommendations to close the ‘tax... Published 03 Oct, 2023 06:02am
KSE-100 closes above 97,000 for the first time as investors dismiss political noise, index gains 1,782 points