Tag: Growth

The National Accounts Committee (NAC) will be meeting again on Tuesday to finalise the economic data for the current fiscal year on the basis...

The Board of Directors of Engro Corporation Limited Friday announced the financial results for the first quarter that ended on March 31, 2012. The...

Every year, ACCA Pakistan submits its budget proposals to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the theme for the budget proposals 2012-13 is...

The global economy is set to expand by a modest 3.3 percent this year as a still-smolderingeuro zone debt crisis and a relatively slow...

Madness comes without giving notice Anyone who imagines that Israel can attack Iran and not unleash another world war must be mad. Pray pause and...

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) has noted with concern that the key problems afflicting the economy including energy shortages that have held back...

Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay MuqamiHakumat (JPJM) chairman Daniyal Aziz has said that economic growth is impossible without political progress therefore devolution of power at grass...

European leaders declared a turning point in the Greece-fueled debt crisis, shifting their focus away from the budget-cutting spree that has dominated two years...

Markets and capitalist incentives have great strengths in promoting economic efficiency, growth, and innovation. And, as Ben Friedman of Harvard University argued persuasively in...

Federal Minister for Science and technology Mir Changez Khan Jamali has said that developing countries cannot make any significant progress unless they incorporate science...

Prime Minister Yuosuf Raza Gilani on Thursday held a meeting with Advisor on Finance Abdul Hafeez Shaikh to discuss economic situation and matters related...

Now that half a year has passed, all realize that the ongoing fiscal year will yield a growth rate of less than 3 per...

Some optimism nonetheless The government won’t probably meet its growth target but would meet its inflation target. That was the central bank’s forecast in its...

Bygones be not bygones A majority of readers and viewers have a gripe with us analysts who write in the press and speak on the...

After posting single digit growth in Dec-11, the headline inflation is expected to recover its double digit growth momentum from Jan-12 onwards. Estimates suggest...

The World Bank has linked the economic growth and development of Pakistan with the availability of water and electricity and underlined the need of...

Pakistan has the potential for rapid growth but the ongoing terrorism has been hampering the progress, creating obstacles for the local and foreign investors,...