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TopicPakistan economy

Topic: Pakistan economy

Moody’s lowers Pakistan’s outlook from stable to negative citing IMF bailout delay

The rating agency’s decision is driven by Pakistan’s heightened external vulnerability risk and uncertainty around its ability to secure adequate additional external financing.

Soon Pakistan will be next Sri Lanka. What it means for India as China’s debt trap grows

When Pakistan goes bankrupt in a few months, China could be looking for an alternative route to ports in the Indian Ocean. Can Delhi alter the South Asian geopolitics?

How Pakistan economy was in fast lane for 30 yrs but its engine kept overheating with debt

PM Shehbaz Sharif said that a life of debt is no life. But a look at the history of Pakistan’s loans suggests his predecessors perhaps lacked economic wisdom.

Sri Lanka, Pakistan hold lessons for India — from fiscal indiscipline to populist measures

The government must be restricted to the essential investments —defence, policing, courts, public health, basic social and economic infrastructure.

Bad news for India’s economic recovery. Modi govt should cut fuel taxes after UP voting

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Even Lahore smog is better than Imran Khan. His lovers are now singing of ‘toote sapne’

The opinion-makers in Pakistani media who initially supported Imran Khan, are in confessional mode saying, “sorry yaar, galti se mistake ho gayi”.

Pakistan’s economy can come alive if it addresses the problem of ‘dead capital’

Like physical capital, a lot of intellectual capital-related business ventures in Pakistan die because the laws required to facilitate them are not present.

Pakistan to cut ‘ridiculously high’ import duties to boost manufacturing, spur growth

The proposal will be mentioned in Pakistan federal government’s annual budget for the year starting 1 July, by when it targets to achieve a growth rate of 4.8%.

Pakistan linking trade and Kashmir issue shows leaders still don’t understand geo-economics

For Pakistan, ideology has trumped the kind of pragmatism needed to move away from geopolitics to geo-economics in its external relations.

Pakistan’s economy is beginning to show momentum as Covid cases taper off

Islamabad: Pakistan is showing signs of business activity picking up at a faster clip, as worries about new coronavirus infections fade in an economy...

On Camera

Sitharaman’s eighth Budget faces fiscal headwinds — and a calendar dilemma

Barring her first two Budgets, Nirmala Sitharaman has always ended the year with either a lower fiscal deficit figure than what she had projected or by adhering to the target.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.