From stability to growth

Headline: From stability to growthSource: EuromoneyDate: September 2001Author: Jules Stewart Pakistan has gone a long way towards stabilizing the economy under its present government, greatly improving the balance-of-payments situation and increasing revenues from taxation: all policies that make multilateral aid a much more practicable proposition. From this base, the government hopes to put in place […]

Headline: From stability to growth
Source: Euromoney
Date: September 2001
Author: Jules Stewart

Pakistan has gone a long way towards stabilizing the economy under its present government, greatly improving the balance-of-payments situation and increasing revenues from taxation: all policies that make multilateral aid a much more practicable proposition. From this base, the government hopes to put in place strategies that will encourage growth, with rationalization of the banking sector and privatization high on the agenda.

       
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After decades of what Pakistan’s finance minister, Shaukat Aziz, terms “stop-go policies” investors and international donor agencies are anxiously waiting to see if the government can make good on its promise to transform reform into stability and growth.






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