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The Pakistan government spent over 1 trillion rupees (about $16.7 billion) on poverty alleviation programs during the past four years, reducing poverty from 35% in 2000–01 to 29.3% in 2013 and further to 17% in 2015. [56] Rural poverty remains a pressing issue, as development in those areas has been significantly slower than in major urban areas.
Pakistan’s new coalition government presented its first budget in parliament on Wednesday, promising an increase of up to 25% in the salaries of government employees and setting an ambitious tax ...
The 2024–25 Pakistan Federal Budget is a financial statement of the government's estimated receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year that runs from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. [1] [2] On 12 June 2024, finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presented the federal budget with a total outlay of Rs18.877 trillion. [3] The same day, a copy of the ...
GSP is the unit-level counterpart of the national gross domestic product (GDP), the most comprehensive measure of a country's economic activity. Dynamics Pakistan, in 2022, had a (GDP nominal) of around US$377 billion and (GDP PPP) of around US$1.512 trillion, according to trading economics. [ 1 ]
Pakistan has experienced an economic crisis as part of the 2022 political unrest. It has caused severe economic challenges for months due to which food, gas and oil prices have risen. As of 1 January 2025 Pakistan inflation rate was 4.1% lowest in 6.75 years. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused fuel prices to rise worldwide. Excessive ...
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021.
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) (Urdu: شماریاتِ بیورو پاکستان) is a federal agency under the Government of Pakistan. [1] It is an attached department of the Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives. It works for collecting statistics in the country. [2]
On June 7, 2024 President Asif Ali Zardari reconstituted the National Economic Council (NEC) of Pakistan under clause (1) of Article 156 of the constitution of Pakistan. The NEC being chaired by the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and includes the chief ministers of Sindh , KPK , Punjab and Balochistan , federal ministers, nominated provincial ...