On the cusp of expansion - Newspaper
When Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin presents the PTI’s third full-year budget on June 11 in the National Assembly, it will be interesting to see him change gear from strangulating stabilisation to economic growth that he has been advocating in the past two months. To his advantage are healthy provisional indicators from the real economy that posted almost four per cent growth from a historically bad year of 2019-20. The downside is the still unclear Covid-19 path along with the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) programme and at the crossroads is the reform agenda. Key benchmarks for the...
Source: dawn.com