Tag: inflation

LAHORE: The caretaker Punjab government has decided to raise the minimum wage of labourers and unskilled workers to Rs 32,000 ...

In the 1970s, economists believed in unabashed monetarism, which espouses the notion that inflation was primarily caused by too much ...

Globalisation and open trade policies are immensely encouraged by current economic theories. But, since globalisation has taken hold around the ...

In the late 1940s, Pakistan was physically decolonized; today, we remain subject to colonization of a different sort. Pakistan has ...

Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) leader and former finance minister Miftah Ismail has accused Finance Minister Ishaq Dar of disrupting ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced a "petrol relief package" ahead of Ramadan for petrol consumers, providing a significant reprieve ...

It is anticipated that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will raise interest rates even further in the impending policy ...

The price of petrol has been increased by rupees five a litre, taking the price of the essential fuel to ...

The country’s leading economic experts, industrialists and businessmen rejected the increase in policy rate by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ...

The Pakistani rupee fell abruptly by Rs18.74 against the dollar in the interbank market on Thursday, with the local currency ...

In a bid to unlock the $6.5 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to stabilize the ailing economy, Pakistan has accepted ...

The Consumer Price Index has touched 31.5% last month year-on-year, the highest in nearly 50 years, according to the Pakistan ...

The federal government on Tuesday announced a decrease of Rs5 per liter in the price of petrol for the next ...

Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) on Tuesday downgraded the Government of Pakistan's local and foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured debt ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed concern over the high price of chicken meat in the country and inquired from ...

The political situation in the country cannot be more out of touch with reality or more disconnected with the direction ...

Consumer prices rose significantly in the outgoing week, as prices of staple commodities like onions, chicken, eggs, rice, cigarettes and ...

The Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi organised a 3 day Pakistan Literature Festival at Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore for the ...

As per news doing the rounds, the IMF has asked Pakistan for an interest rate hike in order to reduce ...

A few months ago, I wrote an article trying to put praise for Miftah Ismail into perspective and context. The ...

On Wednesday, the finance minister proposed to the Parliament a supplementary finance bill, mini-budget, that would raise the sales tax ...

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday called for setting up a national commission to probe the factors behind the economic ...

On August 12, 2023, the present National Assembly’s tenure will end. Strangely, the government led by the Pakistan Democratic Movement ...

Pakistan's economic situation is currently in a state of flux. Inflation has been on the rise and economic growth has ...

Visiting Pakistan is an experience punctuated by stark contrasts. You see abject poverty on streets, you meet engineers who are ...

In a bid to break the deadlock with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government on Tuesday will share its ...