Pakistan has been fixing its balance of payments problems with borrowed foreign funds, increasing debt servicing requirements.
Updated01 Aug, 202210:43am
The currency’s value will continue to be determined essentially based on forex demand and supply, which the SBP can influence.
Updated25 Jul, 202210:27am
Food inflation in Pakistan remains higher than in other Asian countries that too face impact of global fuel, commodity prices.
Updated18 Jul, 202209:28am
A tight monetary policy takes too long to dampen demand and bring stability to prices which is the primary aim of monetary
Published13 Jul, 202206:23am
The demand for private sector credit will remain low, which suits the government, but this will harm the small guys the most.
Updated04 Jul, 202210:22am
Higher interest rates and inflation will increase the cost of production and decrease aggregate demand, resulting in joblessness.
Updated30 May, 202208:35am
Till economic growth picks up and enables net real income to rise and/or interest rates become stable for a quarter of two, we can
Published16 May, 202205:55am
Why do net FDI inflows remain below 1pc of GDP even after the launching of the multi-billion dollar CPEC is a question that merits
Published09 May, 202207:42am
Export earnings from China increased from $1.21bn in 2010 to $2.04bn in 2021, whereas imports shot up from a fairly large amount
Published02 May, 202207:10am
Even the inflow of the $1bn tranche expected from the IMF cannot provide enough cushion to the forex reserves because of the...
Published25 Apr, 202207:05am
The World Bank in its latest report has also singled out Pakistan as the country offering maximum energy subsidies and termed them
Published18 Apr, 202207:07am
Demand-depressing effects on the interest rate tightening will continue which will mean lower-than-expected GDP growth for FY22.
Updated11 Apr, 202209:16am
Unless export of workforce rises again to half a million a year, constantly high growth in remittances cannot be guaranteed.
Updated28 Mar, 202209:16am
