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Dr Hafeez Sheikh

The Fund and Pakistan

The Fund and Pakistan

Published 05 Oct, 2022 05:49am
EDITORIAL: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been extremely rigid in backing off from its extremely harsh...
A budget amid economic impasse

A budget amid economic impasse

Published 11 Jun, 2022 06:41am
The overarching objective of the budget is not pro-poor, an acute political compulsion today with 13.8 percent...
PTI govt: legacy and lessons learned

PTI govt: legacy and lessons learned

Published 05 Apr, 2022 05:38am
EDITORIAL: Three years and seven months in government is equivalent to 71.1 percent of tenure completion, a time...
Lies, damned lies and statistics

Lies, damned lies and statistics

Published 28 Feb, 2022 06:44am
Mark Twain wrote, “figures often beguile me particularly when I have the arranging of them myself, in which case...
2021 — year in review

2021 — year in review

Updated 30 Dec, 2021 09:00am
EDITORIAL: 2021 will be remembered as the divisive year — in terms of the yawning political divide that ...
Growth versus stabilization

Growth versus stabilization

Published 27 Dec, 2021 06:45am
Dr Hafeez Sheikh, twice dismissed as the country’s finance minister, made a distinction between stabilisation and...
Towards sixth review

Towards sixth review

Published 27 Sep, 2021 05:51am
EDITORIAL: According to media reports, the sixth review talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been...

Diversifying external debt sources

Published 09 Jul, 2021 04:25am
EDITORIAL: Earlier this week, the government raised $1 billion from the international bond market in Euro bonds in...

Growth and stability

Published 06 Jul, 2021 03:48am
EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin while speaking at a workshop titled “Pakistan’s Economy – Fragility...
The 6th IMF review and Pakistan

The 6th IMF review and Pakistan

Published 15 Jun, 2021 03:30am
EDITORIAL: Approval of the sixth mandatory review scheduled for 4 June 2021 was removed from the agenda of the...

FY22 budget: a work in progress

Published 14 Jun, 2021 03:39am
The budget 2020-21 is, at best, a work in progress - more so than previous budgets reliant on an over dose of...

Exploiting comparative advantages

Published 02 Jun, 2021 04:29am
The federal budget for the year 2021-22 is being framed by Shaukat Tarin during whose earlier tenure as the federal...
Growth rate of 4 percent?

Growth rate of 4 percent?

Published 26 May, 2021 03:45am
EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin during his press conference this Sunday past defended the authenticity of...

Country needs a reality check

Published 24 May, 2021 04:03am
Incoming Pakistani administrations are invariably high on optimism in their ability to achieve development that...
A stepwise approach

A stepwise approach

Published 06 May, 2021 03:49am
EDITORIAL: Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin held meetings with provincial finance ministers, a key requirement...

Tarin has chosen the wisest course

Published 28 Apr, 2021 03:18am
EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin chaired his first national price monitoring committee meeting after taking...

Whither the economy?

Published 19 Apr, 2021 03:22am
The cabinet approved the medium-term strategy paper this Tuesday past and projected a Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...
Rephasing of IMF conditions

Rephasing of IMF conditions

Published 14 Apr, 2021 03:21am
EDITORIAL: Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), tweeted subsequent to a...

IMF/World Bank reports

Published 12 Apr, 2021 03:59am
The International Monetary Fund’s report titled “Fiscal Monitor: a fair shot” appears to be, at best,...

The IMF review

Published 12 Apr, 2021 03:59am
EDITORIAL: The mission leader for the ongoing Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme revealed during a conference...

Outlook for inflation

Published 06 Apr, 2021 04:23am
The rate of inflation has risen sharply in the last two months. It had come down to 5.7 percent in January 2021....
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