Tag: pakistan economy

The Pakistani rupee plummeted to a new low of 269.63 against the dollar on 30th January. Earlier, the interbank rate ...

Only yesterday, I overheard some classmates from a certain country in my university discuss the potential ramifications of Pakistan’s dwindling ...

Pakistan’s currency dropped 9.6% against the US dollar Thursday to an all-time low in the largest single-day fall in at ...

Miftah Ismail is expressing his differences on economic policy with the PML-N top leadership openly and in a rather challenging ...

“Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.” These words by Sophocles beautifully embody the sadness and the tragedy one experiences ...

Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa interviewed Dr. Turab Hussain of the Lahore University of Management Sciences for Naya Daur; the two academics ...

The Pakistani rupee plummeted to a new low of 262 against the dollar on 27th January. Earlier, the interbank rate ...

The government, after trying its hand at every other alternative and failing, has finally decided to implement the IMF's conditionalities ...

Remittances are important entry of the balance sheet of macro-accounting of a developing economy. It is believed that remittances can ...

Pakistan has to make tough choices as sovereign default appears imminent. Begging for “mini” bailouts from “friendly” countries can only ...

Pakistan is a growing economy, and the agriculture sector continues to be the largest sector. This gives it a dominant ...

Pakistan broke its own standards of political instability in the year 2022 and entered 2023 with heightened polarization, without any ...

It has been almost a year and things at the political and economic front still remain volatile. While two provincial ...

In a Twitter thread, Princeton economist Atif Mian argued that it is a “foolish policy” measure to try and fix ...

In the four decades since the start of the 1970s, East Asia & the Pacific region saw its exports-to-GDP ratio ...

The State Bank of Pakistan recently announced remittance figures for December 2022 and the results are far from encouraging. The ...

Pakistan is finally catching up with the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) requirement and moving forward with multiple reforms that were ...

Goldman Sachs (GS) issued a paper last month projecting that Pakistan’s economy will become the world’s sixth largest economy by ...

There is something pointless – though not entirely pointless, as I hope to argue here – about an economic charter. ...

Pakistan’s short-term financing needs are likely to be sorted as per a new report by Bloomberg Economics. The report suggested ...

A country entangled in an economic crisis as a result of complete ignorance towards structural reforms, coupled with a fascination ...

The alarming decrease in the State Bank of Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves, and the rather bizarre attitude of the incumbent ...

When oil prices underwent a massive price increase in 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pakistan's import bill ...

In a conversation with a private news channel on January 7, 2023, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar claimed that the reserves ...