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Rising fiscal challenges

Growing concerns over Pakistan’s rising external debt and inefficiencies in development spending have prompted calls ...
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The productivity deficit

Pakistan’s trade imbalance with nine key regional partners has widened sharply, underscoring deep-rooted structural weaknesses ...
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Export push or policy experiment?

Pakistan’s policymakers appear to be experimenting with a new strategy to revive exports at a ...
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Stabilisation without impact?

Pakistan wrapped up 2025 on a note of tentative economic stabilisation — inflation eased off ...
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Strong on paper, weak on trade

When the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics released the December 2025 trade figures, the reaction in ...
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When austerity hurts

Every year, it feels like the same story in Pakistan’s budget battles. When money gets ...
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Inflation at a crossroads

Pakistan’s economic barometer—the Consumer Price Index (CPI)—has inched downward to 6.1 percent year-on-year for November, ...
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A nation at work—or not?

In a revelation that could reshape perceptions of Pakistan’s workforce woes, preliminary data from the ...
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The circle that never breaks

Pakistan’s circular debt crisis has ballooned by Rs79 billion in just three months from July ...
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Rising growth meets sinking ground

In a world where economic forecasts often swing like a pendulum between hope and caution, ...