Good Show by PML-N Govt. and Ishaq Dar … :k:
Foreign exchange reserves to cross $15bn in July, NA told - Business - DAWN.COM
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Govt eyes 7.2pc growth rate by 2016-17 - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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7.2 is unrealistic. We have too many structural problems and we lack the income to implement the programmes we need to, to get that growth rate.
More so what the PML needs to do is collect taxes properly. Once that is done, following with a constant electricity supply we could potentially reach that growth rate in 2020.
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I wonder how the foreign currency reserves are jumping these days, they had reached 3.7 Billion dollars in January this year. The only additions this year have been the 1.5 billion dollar gift from Saudia and the 3G/4G auction.
Pakistan’s central bank must “actively” work to increase foreign exchange reserves, including adjusting interest rates, the top International Monetary Fund official to the country said.
“Pakistan needs to tap inflows including remittances, export revenue and capital transfers,” Pakistan mission head Jeffrey Franks said in a phone interview from Washington yesterday. Financial support from other international organizations likely to arrive in the next six to nine months will be “a positive,” he said.
The IMF approved a $6.6 billion loan in September to help Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government stabilize the economy, which has suffered from a Taliban insurgency and power shortages. While Pakistan’s performance in the first review was mostly satisfactory, the IMF said foreign exchange reserves fell to a “critically low” level.
Sharif has changed energy policies to tackle power shortages and plans to raise as much as $1 billion in a bond issue abroad to raise funds. Currency reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan have fallen about 60 percent to $3.7 billion on Jan. 2 from a year earlier, central bank data show.
The central bank has raised the benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points since the loan’s approval to 10 percent. The IMF faulted authorities for failing to prioritize rebuilding reserves in the review released on Jan. 3 and said they will remain tight for the next two or three quarters.
“The SBP must unhesitatingly use every policy tool at its disposal to boost reserves, including adjusting the policy rate, intervening to purchase reserves on the spot market, and allowing greater flexibility of the exchange rate,” it said.
Pakistan’s rupee fell 7.7 percent against the dollar last year, among the worst performers in Asia, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
An earlier, partially disbursed $11.3 billion IMF program expired in September 2011 after Pakistan failed to meet the conditions attached to it.
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Remittances are higher. The SBP has required banks to hold on to more dollar reserves etc. Its been a concentrated effort along with just dumb old luck. Kinda went hand in hand.
Plus the devaluing of the rupee helped us as well. Which I must say even after 3 months is still under 100. Something the barely economically educated pundits on line scoffed at.
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This the whole story, fudging numbers as always.
$2b policy loans tied to minimum creditworthiness | Pakistan Today](http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/04/29/business/2b-policy-loans-tied-to-minimum-creditworthiness/)
After dropping to dangerously low levels of $2.8 billion, the country’s official foreign currency reserves have increased to about $7 billion on the back of $1.5 billion Saudi Arabia assistance, something that the former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain described it as ‘charity’. The foreign currency reserves also increased $2 billion due to the floating Euro bonds.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has recently vowed that his government would further increase reserves to $15 billion, including $4.7 billion held by commercial banks, by September and hoped that the WB will also relax its conditions of reserves sufficient to back three months import bill to two and half months. Dar is taking into account private reserves, which the international lenders do not consider as official reserves.
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Huh? I am confused by the news article.
Foreign exchange reserves Definition - NASDAQ.com
That is the definition. A quick google search does it.
Foreign-exchange reserves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Again wikipedia.
What i am confused by is how does Pakistan Today know what the total private accounts are in Pakistan? Moreso how do they know that this is what Ishaq Dar is doing?
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2013-14: Foreign exchange reserves rise by 50%, data shows – The Express Tribune