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OctRemittances swell 29% year-on-year in Sept amid exchange rate stability
Published in The News on October 09, 2024 Remittances sent home by overseas workers jumped 29% year-on-year (YoY) to $2.849 billion in September from $2.208 billion in the same month last year, latest numbers released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) showed on Wednesday, which anlysts attributed to exchange […]
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OctCentre, provinces sign landmark fiscal pact under IMF condition
By Mehtab Haider Published in The News on October 05, 2024 ISLAMABAD: In a bid to comply with the IMF conditions under the $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), the federal government and the provinces have struck a National Fiscal Pact for extending cooperation on a 19-point agenda, including discontinuation[…]
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OctRaising Pakistani living standards and economic resilience
By Esther Perez Ruiz Published in The News on October 02, 2024 DESPITE a challenging external environment and the devastating floods of 2022, Pakistan has managed to restore economic and financial stability over the past year. Since the launch of the Stand-By Arrangement in July 2023, confidence in policymaking has[…]
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OctPakistan’s GDP grew at underwhelming 2.52pc last fiscal
By Mehtab Haider Published in The News on October 01, 2024 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s GDP growth figure has slightly witnessed an upward revision (0.14 percent) in revised figures of the last fiscal year and stood at 2.52 percent against earlier provisional growth rate figures of 2.38 percent for 2023-24. The fiscal[…]
