Tag: Deficit

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday said that the revolutionary decisions taken by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan have helped...

Govt raises defence spending to Rs1.1tr, as budget outlay witnesses 16.2% increase than last year 10% ad-hoc relief allowance proposed for civil and armed forces...

ISLAMABAD: Despite tall claims by Federal Minister for Railway Khawaja Saad Rafique of bringing revolutionary changes in the Pakistan Railways (PR), the expenditure of...

GDP enhances by 12.12pc, account deficit widens 90.62pc to (negative) $2.601bn The country’s current account deficit is up to (negative) $2.601 billion in July-Nov of...

  The country’s balance of payments (BoP) deficit further shrank by 94 per cent to negative $1.267 billion in the first six months of the...

  Deficit of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) stands at Rs 19 billion despite the 42 per cent drop in the prices of oil products...

The current account (CA) deficit witnessed a jump of 17 percent in fiscal year 2014 to $ 2.9 billion as against $ 2.5 billion...

Economic mangers were able to reduce the dollar-hungry country’s current account deficit by $2.35 billion (or 51 percent) to $2.299 billion between July 2012...

Despite positives like the inflow of $ 1.8 billion from the United States in August this year under the long-withheld Coalition Support Fund (CSF),...

A prerequisite for peace The Afghan peace mission has arrived in Islamabad at a time when the relations between the two neighbours have further deteriorated....

The deficit equaled about 7 percent of U.S. economic output, down from 8.7 percent in 2011, 9 percent in 2010 and 10.1 percent in...

Reports have been published in the newspapers the other day that President Asif Ali Zardari has promised Center’s help in bridging Sindh’s budgetary deficit....

The Syndicate of University of Sindh has approved the recurring budget of Rs 3,058 million with a deficit of Rs 631.264 million for the...

Japan Wednesday posted a record trade deficit of about $37.3 billion in the first half of the year as soaring energy costs weighed on...

Only improved foreign inflows can help as cash-strapped govt keeps borrowing billions from risk-averse banks Having borrowed a record Rs 1.2 trillion from the banking...

Increase made in the allocation for development spending next fiscal year under political pressure has increase the fiscal deficit estimate to 5 percent of...

Pakistan may have to return to the International Monetary Fund for financial assistance this year amidst an unstable macroeconomic situation, central bank governor said. Yaseen...