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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 ...
The Pakistani government is looking to tame inflation with fuel price cuts and a price-control mechanism, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar said on Monday. The South Asian country is ...
The National Finance Commission Award or NFC is a series of planned economic programs in Pakistan enacted since 1951. [1] Constituted under the Article 160 of the Constitution, the program was emerged to take control of financial imbalances and equally managed the financial resources to four provinces to meet their expenditure liabilities while alleviating the horizontal fiscal imbalances. [2]
The liberalisation methods raised country's GDP growth at 9.38% (1964), 8.71% (1980s) and 8.97% (2004–07). After exclusive establishment of Pakistan, the country's economic policy for the rapid growth of the national economy was deeply understood and extensive efforts were carried out by the government of Prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan in 1947. [2]
STORY: Every penny counts for Anser Mai, a widow and mother of three, as Pakistan strains under the high inflation that's hitting the globe.She earns about $134 U.S. dollars a month working as a ...
Public markets across Pakistan stayed closed on Saturday due to a strike by retail associations over rising electricity prices and brisk inflation, as the country embarks on a tricky path to ...
The inflation rate in Pakistan has averaged 7.99 percent from 1957 until 2015, reaching an all-time high of 37.81 percent in December 1973 and a record low of -10.32 percent in February 1959. Pakistan suffered its only economic decline in GDP between 1951 and 1952. [3]
Under Gillani's presiding of the country, nearly ~40.0% of the population fell under the line of poverty, with 16.0% rise in the inflation during his four years of presiding over the country. [26] The new strict and tight monetary policy could not tame the soaring inflation, it did stagnate the economic growth. [19]