Showing posts with label budget deficit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label budget deficit. Show all posts
Monday, 19 May 2025

Pakistan: Encouraging IMF Staff Level Report

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The recently released IMF staff level report praises Pakistan’s strong program implementation and stresses the need to prioritize reforms go...
Friday, 6 September 2024

Pakistan's biggest problem: lack of good governance

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The matter of grave concern is that Pakistan suffers from three deficits: 1) budget deficit, 2) trade deficit and 3) trust deficit. Though w...
Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Pakistan: Ongoing Austerity Theater

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The recently announced austerity measures, by the Shehbaz Sharif government should ostensibly be aiming at reducing expenses appear to be mo...
Friday, 18 August 2023

Pakistan: Interim setup likely to remain in place a little longer

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Over the months I have been saying that current account deficit and budget deficit are the outcome of “Confidence Deficit”. However, the tea...
Tuesday, 6 June 2023

Focus on agriculture can pull Pakistan out of current economic malice

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At present Pakistan faces myriad of problems, from rising food import bill to very limited availability of foreign exchange. While the indus...
Saturday, 19 November 2016

State of Pakistan Economy

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Pakistan’s central bank, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has recently released its Annual Report for the financial year ended 30th June 2016....
Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Pakistan must address structural issues on top priority

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Historically Pakistan and International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lived with each other, at times with comfort and at tome with some une...