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Dec

Our monetary stimuli

By Riaz Riazuddin Published in DAWN on December 30, 2021 WHAT is a monetary stimulus? An amusing but apt way to understand it is to recall Woody Allen’s movie Take the Money and Run. Interpret ‘take’ as borrow and ‘run’ as running the affairs of government. In the movie, Woody Allen could neither rob nor run, despite […]

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Dec

2021: the state of the economy

By Abid Qaiyum Suleri Published in The News on December 30, 2021 Before recapping the state of the economy in 2021, let us recall the World Economic Forum’s Global Crisis Report which was released in January this year. The report highlighted that during 2021 the world could face the following risks and threats: asset bubble burst, price[…]

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Govt to table bills paving way for $1bn IMF tranche

By Khaleeq Kiani Published in DAWN on December 26, 2021 • Set to introduce supplementary finance, SBP bills on Tuesday • Arrangements in place to get the entire package approved by cabinet • Move to ensure sixth review of $6bn EFF gets cleared on Jan 12 • Tarin says measures agreed with Fund as prior actions completed[…]