This financing is expected to stabilise rupee-dollar exchange rate

Inflow to ease pressure on foreign currency reserves

It says plan to increase social spending and reduce tax amid need for tighter monetary and fiscal policies will clash

IMF bailout option on the table; Pakistan faces mammoth task in arranging $11b for FY19

Slow progress on projects means it fails to benefit from concessionary financing window

Goods' shipments from Pakistan to almost all regions record increase in FY18

These are on eastern route; other projects are way behind deadlines

Already half a dozen offices are working; aim is to make better projections

Failure to make accurate forecasts puts question mark over capability of both institutions

Mounting debt, steep decline in reserves reasons behind heavy reliance on external creditors