• Says increasing tax collection is the foremost priority of the government

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry Wednesday said the upward adjustment in energy tariffs and further increase in fuel...

DUBAI: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects Saudi Arabia to swing to a fiscal deficit of 1.2% of GDP in...

NEW DELHI: Leaders from the world’s top economies arrive in India on Friday for a two-day G20 summit overshadowed by...

LONDON: The persistent and damaging debt problems gripping a number of developing world nations will be a core topic...

ISLAMABAD: Fiscal discipline is essential to maintain primary surplus as total public debt/revenue and debt...

‘But putting growth at the center of economic policymaking is a mistake. While important, growth in the abstract ...

ISLAMABAD: The government projection of a reduction in the current account deficit to US$ 3.7 billion is subject to...

NEW DELHI: India’s GDP grew by 7.8 percent in the June quarter, official figures showed Thursday, despite government...

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi said that Pakistan’s economic uplift was linked to the development of ...

The year, 2022-23, closed with a truly remarkable reduction in the size of the current account deficit by 84% to ...

ISLAMABAD: Vice Chancellor PIDE Dr Nadeem-ul-Haque has highlighted the pressing issue of Pakistan’s widening trade...

EDITORIAL: Contractionary fiscal and monetary policies agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the...

Before Pakistan can embark on the long and tedious journey of structural reforms, fiscal discipline must be embraced...

ISLAMABAD: The staff level agreement on the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

The devastation caused by the floods and the resulting supply shortages, along with severe import restrictions, has...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court said the government and not the courts can examine and implement economic and fiscal...

• Caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar visits Federal Board of Revenue to review progress so far on implementation of $3 billion Stand-by-Arrangement of the International Monetary Fund

The narrative highlighting the importance of enhancing the number of tax filers also fails to take into account the...

Recently, an important conference, ‘Pakistan Mineral Summit’, has been organised in Islamabad by the Petroleum...

EDITORIAL: In the last decade, authorities had supposedly lent focus to expand documentation of the economy. But,...

TOKYO: Japan’s economy grew much faster than expected in April-June, as brisk auto exports and tourist arrivals...

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project since its launch on April 20, 2015, by President Xi Jinping...

ISLAMABAD: Rising inflation, particularly food inflation (highest in the history of Pakistan), increase in...

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will heavily rely on policy and administrative/ enforcement measures...

ISLAMABAD: The pledge for the Cabinet to approve an updated Circular Debt Management Plan (CDMP) by end-July 2023 as...

Pakistan’s Investment to GDP ratio has remained stubbornly low compared to other emerging markets for many years....

Stagnation in Pakistan’s rural economy has been ongoing over the last decade for a multitude of reasons. The...

The IMF Stand-By Facility (SBF) of $3 billion has been in operation for two weeks now. Already, there is a big...

NEW YORK: The yen extended losses on Monday from a volatile session at the end of last week after the Bank of Japan...