The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board has completed the third review of Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility and the second review...
The International Monetary Fund has lowered Pakistan‘s economic growth forecast to 3.5% for the current fiscal year while raising its inflation projection to 8.4% — a...
The IMF cut its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1% as the Iran war, renewed US tariff threats, and AI investment uncertainty converge. Inside the most...
Islamabad’s fiscal arithmetic for 2026-27 tells two stories at once. One is a government insisting the worst of the inflation crisis has passed, with growth ticking...
The Ground Beneath the Diplomacy Pakistan’s economic story over the past two years has been one of stabilisation against the odds. A country that entered 2024...
Islamabad has concluded another round of grueling fiscal negotiations, securing an explicit nod from the International Monetary Fund for a sweeping suite of revenue-mobilization measures slated...
The war in the Middle East has rewritten the rules of global energy markets. For Pakistan, the question is whether Washington’s premier lender will rewrite the...
The clinking of porcelain teacups in Washington’s spring meetings often drowns out the sirens of global crises. But for Pakistan’s economic managers navigating the marble corridors...
Imagine a supertanker—two football fields of steel carrying enough crude oil to power a mid-sized European nation for a day—sitting motionless in the Gulf of Oman,...
The Fund clears its third EFF review and second RSF review, unlocking a lifeline that brings total disbursements to $4.5bn. Reserves are rising, inflation is contained...