May 23, 2010

EAC constitutes body to address IFIs concerns

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank got alarmed and expressed grave concern and no confidence in the “manipulated” GDP growth of 4.1 per cent for outgoing fiscal year 2009-10 worked out by the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) and then approved by the National Accounts Committee (NAC), a senior official at Finance Ministry confided to The News.
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Pakistan is now ranked at 112th position among 125 countries in the Global Trade Index, moving down from 100th position that it held last year. This is the second consecutive year that Pakistan’s position has been lowered, according to The Global Enabling Trade Report 2010, released by the World Economic Forum on Saturday.
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