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shahbaz.rana (AT) tribune.com.pk
Revenue-expenditures gap: Widening budget deficit poses challenges for new govt
Government’s overspending surpasses 5.6% of national output.
Post-election policy shift: FBR seeks to revive excise duty regime
Wants to halt the process of phasing out excise duties, impose it on two dozen goods and services.
Spendthrift rulers: Ministry of Finance finds itself ‘short’ of Rs83.3 billion
Discrepancies highlight major flaws in reporting of federal expenditures .
Interim govt moves to scrap economic growth framework
Decision purportedly rooted in feud between former Planning Commission deputy chairman and finance adviser’s brother.
Right man for the job?: Senator Ishaq Dar tipped to be next finance minister
Has served two stints in the past, one more as commerce minister.
Credibility crisis?: PPP govt fails miserably in securing enough foreign funding
Less than half of budgeted estimates of foreign loans and assistance actually realised.
PM asked to extend Planning Commission member’s contract
PC spokesperson unable to provide justification for extension.
The low-base effect: Investment in country dips to lowest in years
Bureaucratic red tape, uncertain environment drive investors away.
Per capita income grows just 4.3% this year
Clocks in at $1,380 as total size of economy falls by Rs600 billion.
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