I explained why spiking the interest rate isn’t wise. At the same time, private sectordebthas gone up by more than a quarter since 2018. In July it started to dip a little. And for the current year, Pakistan’s industrial production has done nothing except to shrink as we see below....
we need to increase our capacities', Hassan Daud, project director CPEC at the Ministry of Planning, explained in an interview for this study. 'Imagine what will be the impact on business when the trains will move from 65km per hour speed to 130km per hour speed in [the] next five ye...
Ahmed explained that "another major crisis is related to our budgetary deficits. The government should take serious measure to appropriate the tax to GDP ratio and collect at least 8,000 billion rupees (110 billion U.S. dollars) annually in taxes to keep things in order." He added that "t...
At 22.67% improvement in its hunger score since 1990, Pakistan has improved less than India's 23.97% reduction, explained mainly by little or no progress in Pakistan during thelost decade of the 1990sunder Bhutto and Sharif governments. In spite of the progress Pakistan made until 2008, the h...
Khan led a relentless campaign against his removal, which helped him win huge public support especially with the coalition government caught in a crippling economic crisis that has seen record-high inflation and massive currency depreciation. Rising living costs have become unbe...
Now, how bad is Pakistan’s crisis compared to other countries facing similar economic crises and foreign debt pressures? Jonathan Wheatley Well, the one that Pakistan is facing is bad, as I’m sure Farhan has explained. They are running out of reserves and they need to do something pretty...
Shah justified the project, saying it was built on “uninhabited” “waste” land. “An Initial Environmental Examination was carried out and we got a nod from the Environment Protection Department before embarking upon the project,” he explained. ...
Evolving EFA the BTS was significant at p < 0.000, KMO measure of sampling adequacy shows good sample size of 0.924 the pattern matrix were above 0.4, explained 58.78% variance and four factors were identified as expected. Construct reliability analysis was performed using Cronbach’s alpha which...
The large value of computed F-statistics reveals that the explanatory variable included in the ARDL model has a strong and significant effect on economic progress. The high R2 value is 0.980, which suggest that 98% variations in economic progress is explained by the variables included in the ...
Grocery Stores and the Economy: The Relationship Explained The state of the economy directly impacts the grocery industry in terms of employment and consumer spending. Hourly wages for grocery retail workers are low relative to other service industries. The pandemic led to high turnover as employees...