FBR’s losing battle against shrinking tax base
Pakistan’s fiscal challenges have deepened as the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) once again fell ...
Crude awakening: Rising oil prices threaten Pakistan’s recovery
Pakistan’s fragile economic recovery faces a renewed challenge as rising global oil prices threaten to ...
Rising fiscal challenges
Growing concerns over Pakistan’s rising external debt and inefficiencies in development spending have prompted calls ...
The productivity deficit
Pakistan’s trade imbalance with nine key regional partners has widened sharply, underscoring deep-rooted structural weaknesses ...
Export push or policy experiment?
Pakistan’s policymakers appear to be experimenting with a new strategy to revive exports at a ...
Stabilisation without impact?
Pakistan wrapped up 2025 on a note of tentative economic stabilisation — inflation eased off ...
Strong on paper, weak on trade
When the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics released the December 2025 trade figures, the reaction in ...
When austerity hurts
Every year, it feels like the same story in Pakistan’s budget battles. When money gets ...
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, ...
A nation at work—or not?
In a revelation that could reshape perceptions of Pakistan’s workforce woes, preliminary data from the ...