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Over the last two centuries, global economic transformations have repeatedly demonstrated that escaping poverty requires moving labor from low-productivity agriculture to high-value industrial and technological sectors....
As Pakistan’s 2026 monsoon season continues to claim lives across Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan, a harder question is coming into focus in Islamabad: whether...
Pakistan closed out July 2026 with two of its strongest economic signals in years — even as the underlying trade picture tells a more cautious story....
Islamabad’s macro dashboard is, on paper, the healthiest it has been in years. Real GDP expanded 3.7% in FY2025–26, foreign exchange reserves have strengthened, the current...
Pakistan’s economic narrative in 2026 has largely been one of hard-won stabilization: an IMF program broadly on track, friendly-country financing rolling over on schedule, and a...
By the official scorecard, Pakistan’s economy had a good year. The Pakistan Economic Survey 2025-26 reports real GDP growth of 3.7%, easing inflation, improved foreign exchange...
Pakistan is running two demanding reform programs at once, and they don’t obviously fit together. On one track, the IMF is pressing for stricter fiscal controls,...
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’s finance minister spent the week of July 20 in Washington doing something Islamabad has rarely been able to do from a position of relative strength:...
A punishing monsoon season has killed more than 100 people across Pakistan since late June and is now colliding with the country’s fragile post-IMF recovery, pushing...