Karachi, August 05, 2020: Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) shared the results of its Business Confidence Index (BCI) Survey – Wave 19, which shows that the overall Business Confidence Score (BCS) in Pakistan stands at 50 percent negative, a further drop by 5 percent from the already – 45 percent negative score…
KARACHI, July 30, 2020: The Pakistan’s Central Bank has said that successful stabilization measures that had fostered macroeconomic improvement in Jul-Feb FY20 provided a valuable cushion against the downturn faced from late March 2020 onward in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. The State Bank of Pakistan has released its Third Quarterly Report FY20 on…
Karachi, July 30, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic means government spending has increased immensely, with the IMF calculating it to be a staggering US$9 trillion. For ACCA, the World Bank and IFAC, the concern is that public sector fiscal commitment and interventions are not being captured accurately by governments due to the way they account for this. In a…
KARACHI, July 27, 2020: Under the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Rozgar Refinance Scheme, financing of Rs125.9 billion has been approved by banks for 2068 businesses covering wages and salaries of over 1.2 million employees up till 10th July 2020. Soon after the introduction of the Scheme, a large number of applications to avail financing…
Islamabad, July 21, 2020: Output of Pakistan’s Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) decreased by 10.3 percent during the first eleven months of the last fiscal year (FY20). Latest data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) revealed that LSMI output witnessed a decrease of 25 during May’20 primarily on account of easing of the nation-wide…