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Nov 21, 2024 اردو ► PRINT EDITION ► BR MARKETS ► Dollar to PKR ►

Dr Hafiz A Pasha

IMF projections for 2023-24
Opinion

IMF projections for 2023-24

The World Economic Outlook issue of April 2023 by the IMF contains detailed macroeconomic [AN1] projections at the...
Published 02 May, 2023 05:59am
Contrasting trends
Opinion

Contrasting trends

The economy is showing contrasting trends in different segments of activity. This is due to various factors like the...
Published 25 Apr, 2023 06:25am
The IMF projections
Opinion

The IMF projections

The IMF has made projections for 2023 and a number of subsequent years at the global and country level in its latest...
Updated 18 Apr, 2023 07:21am
Economic projections
Opinion

Economic projections

The World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have both released economic projections of Pakistan. Both...
Published 11 Apr, 2023 03:44am
Rising public debt
Opinion

Rising public debt

The extremely worrying indicator today is the large and rapidly growing level of public debt, including the external...
Published 04 Apr, 2023 03:24am
The economic malaise
Opinion

The economic malaise

Pakistan today faces the worst financial crisis in its 75-year history. This is attributable to both long-term ...
Updated 28 Mar, 2023 06:52am
Falling exports and imports
Opinion

Falling exports and imports

The February figures of exports, imports and balance of trade have just been released. They tell a story of extreme...
Updated 21 Mar, 2023 07:01am
Containment of imports
Opinion

Containment of imports

The latest international trade statistics for the period, July to February, 2022-23, have just been released by the...
Published 14 Mar, 2023 03:18am
Galloping inflation
Opinion

Galloping inflation

Pakistan is seeing today an unprecedented hike in the rate of inflation. The CPI has risen on a year-to-year basis ...
Published 07 Mar, 2023 03:16am
Progressive fiscal policy
Opinion

Progressive fiscal policy

The Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has said recently in the...
Published 28 Feb, 2023 06:15am
Surging govt debt
Opinion

Surging govt debt

The statistics on total debt of Pakistan as of end-December 2022 has been released recently by the SBP (State Bank ...
Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am
Budgetary outcome in 1HFY23
Opinion

Budgetary outcome in 1HFY23

The information on fiscal operations from July to December 2022 of the federal and the provincial governments has...
Published 14 Feb, 2023 05:58am
State of the economy
Opinion

State of the economy

The first six months of 2022-23 have witnessed considerable uncertainty about country’s economic prospects. ...
Published 31 Jan, 2023 06:01am
GDP growth in 2022-23 — II
Opinion

GDP growth in 2022-23 — II

The previous article by this writer had presented the estimate of the GDP growth rate in 2022-23 as negative 1% from...
Updated 26 Jan, 2023 12:50am
GDP growth in 2022-23
Opinion

GDP growth in 2022-23

The World Bank has revised its projection downwards of the GDP growth rate of the economy of Pakistan in 2022-23 ...
Published 17 Jan, 2023 06:02am
Galloping inflation
Opinion

Galloping inflation

Pakistan today is experiencing high and rising rate of inflation. This is the highest inflation after 1973-74 and...
Published 10 Jan, 2023 06:00am
Stresses on the federation
Opinion

Stresses on the federation

The public eye has been focused on the on-going confrontation between the federal government of the PDM and the...
Published 03 Jan, 2023 03:25am