Dr. Waqar Masood Khan
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Dr. Waqar is an eminent economist and former Finance Secretary, with wide-ranging experience of both public and private sectors. He has done Ph.D in Economics and M.A. in Political Economy from Boston University Massachusetts, USA and has done M.A. in Economics and L.L.B. from University of Karachi.
Pakistan’s Painful Economics: What more the IMF...
Pakistan’s former finance secretary walks us through the policies Pakistan will have to pursue under the IMF program and given its current economic hardship why it should take the maximum loan possible from the IMF.
Government claims to reduce the Fiscal Deficit...
The new Finance Minister, Asad Umar, while presenting the mini financial bill clearly stated that the previous government had understated the Fiscal Deficit as...
Pakistan’s Budget 2018-19: Impervious to economic challenges
The government has announced the budget for the next one year despite the end of their tenure before its implementation. The term of the...
The Paris Meeting: Always a foregone conclusion...
The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) was established by the G-7 Summit held in Paris in 1989. The initial task force...
Concerns and predictions on Pakistan’s debt situation...
Federal government external debt is only 20-21 percent of our GDP. Pakistan now has very modest exposure to debt compared to what it had...