Pakistan is running two demanding reform programs at once, and they don’t obviously fit together. On one track, the IMF...
The IMF’s Executive Board completed Pakistan’s third review of its 37-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and second review of its Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) on...
Pakistan is currently home to two seemingly contradictory economic stories. On one hand, the IMF has confirmed the country is on track to miss its FY27...
Pakistan’s Economic Survey for FY2025-26 has been covered almost entirely through the lens of the headline growth figure. What’s been underreported is a single-month inflation spike...
Pakistan’s economy expanded 3.7% in FY26, its fastest pace in four years, according to the government’s Economic Survey, even as the IMF’s Executive Board flagged the...
The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board has completed the third review of Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility and the second review of its Resilience and Sustainability Facility,...
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...