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ISLAMABAD: Projecting Pakistan’s economic growth at 3.8 per cent and fiscal deficit at 3.5 per cent for the current fiscal year, the World Bank said on Tuesday

the country was home to almost half of the extremely poor population in the entire Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan-Pakistan (Menaap) region. “Menaap is the only region in the world in which poverty remains above pre-pandemic levels and continues to rise. Pakistan accounts for nearly half of the region’s extreme poor,” the Washington-based lending […]

Ahsan Iqbal Seeks PM’s Intervention to Include Planning Ministry in IMF Talks

Says loan programme will have implications for people, economic development ISLAMABAD: Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has asked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to include the Planning Commission in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), arguing that the $7 billion programme has implications beyond fiscal targets and numbers. “I have recommended to the prime minister that […]