Early warning signs

[ad_1] The first quarter of 2023-24 is about to come to an end. It has been an eventful quarter. It started well with the finalization of the Stand-By Facility (SBF)…

Finance Ministry dismisses criticism about ‘inflated’ GDP

[ad_1] News Business Economy Finance Ministry dismisses criticism about ‘inflated’ GDP In other words, growth as per the Income Approach was lower. Using the expenditure approach, it would have been…

Low nominal first quarter growth results in fiscal pressures

[ad_1] The critical information in the first quarter (Q1) gross domestic product (GDP) data relates to the proximity of real and nominal GDP growth rates at 7.8 per cent and…

Budget strategy for FY2023-24

[ad_1] The budget for 2023-24 will be presented by the federal government in the Parliament in the next few days. There has been a lot of speculation about the budget…

Services sector fires GDP growth to 6.1% in Q4

[ad_1] INDIA’S GROSS Domestic Product (GDP) clocked a higher-than-expected growth rate of 6.1 per cent in January-March 2023, in turn pushing up the growth estimate for full year 2022-23 to…

The IMF projections

[ad_1] The IMF has made projections for 2023 and a number of subsequent years at the global and country level in its latest publication, World Economic Outlook, of April 2023.…

Resilience, helplessness or loss of trust?—II

[ad_1] In other words, the country is on the verge of a sovereign default. This recognition is an admission for cure; it’s no sign of weakness. The IMF programme is…

Trying to look at Pakistan through Piketty’s prism–I

[ad_1] French economist Thomas Piketty’s erudite book Capital and Ideology published in 2019 is considered to be an indispensable piece of literature. It follows Piketty’s 2013 book Capital in the…