Tag: Gdp
Italy’s GDP will shrink around 2% in 2012: central bank
Italy's economy will shrink by around two percent this year, the head of the Italian central bank said Sunday, as he called for adopting...
Time to move on to the next base, sweetie
SBP reminds its sweetheart PBS to rebase national income accounts and issue quarterly GDP estimates. And it also reminded mankind that contrary to popular...
ADP envisages 4.3% GDP growth
The Annual Development Plan prepared by the government for the next fiscal year envisages 4.3% GDP growth rate with contributions from agriculture, manufacturing and...
If at first you don’t succeed…
The National Accounts Committee (NAC) will be meeting again on Tuesday to finalise the economic data for the current fiscal year on the basis...
VCs demand 4pc of GDP for education
The vice chancellors of all public and private sector universities have decided to launch a campaign to put pressure on government to invest 4...
Investment to GDP ratio dips
The security situation in Pakistan is being considered as one of the biggest hurdle for foreign investors. One positive change that, according to analysts,...
Human capital, liabilities and GDP
Though, for obvious reasons, the government’s newfound liking for ‘capitalising on human capital’ cannot be taken at face value, it touches upon a central...
There is light
Looking past the gloom and doom
We appear to have reached a point where only tales of disasters, negatives and bad news are of interest....
National exchequer, GDP growth facing losses
The traders and business community of the federal capital has strongly opposed the government’s decision to observe two weekly holidays - Sundays and Saturdays...
Three month fiscal deficit 1.1pc of GDP
Pakistan’s fiscal deficit for the first three months of fiscal year 2011-12 was 1.1 per cent of gross domestic product, a Finance Ministry official...
Analysing frontiers of growth
GDP discrepancies across the world, especially in the post economic meltdown period, sum up the changing growth paradigms across regions and economies. A growing...
FY11 deficit docked in at 6.6pc of GDP
Yesterday, Ministry of Finance (MoF) released its data for budgetary operations in FY11. Surprisingly, the fiscal deficit was reported at 6.6 per cent of...
PMA proposes 4% of GDP for Punjab’s health budget
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Wednesday proposed that the health budget of Punjab should be raised to 4% of the GDP from its...
Govt asked to allocate 5pc of GDP to education
Student organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGO) on Thursday asked the federal and provincial governments to allocate more than five percent of the gross domestic...
GDP growth falls to 2.4% in current fiscal
The gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate fell to 2.4 percent, almost half of the projected target of 4.5 percent, tax revenue in the...
Budget deficit likely to soar to 6.5 percent of GDP
The country is likely to see the budget deficit ballooning to 6.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), as the State Bank of...
Govt aims to keep monetary expansion, GDP in sync
The government has decided that the monetary expansion for the next fiscal year will be in line with the projected Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...