BR Research - Miscellaneous

In the past week alone, the economic wizards of federal government have twice sat together to deliberate commodity support prices. Price for 40kg wheat has...

Milton Friedman is quoted to have said that "if the federal government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there would...

Businesses in Pakistan may be put into three kind of boxes: the aging legacy types, corporates or  family-owned SMEs, that have adopted some level of...

The current account deficit for September 2019 at $259 million would have sounded extremely outlandish a year ago. But it is happening. And it is...

Governments in Pakistan, including provincial ones, do not have money to spend on development. Private sector is cash rich – and the economic growth model...

Back in January, while commenting on the rabi crop projections for FY19, SBP’s State of the Economy report had noted that “anecdotal evidence suggests that...

It’s probably a false alarm. As per central bank data, mobile phone imports came in at roughly $74 million for July 2019 (August numbers are...

The quest to bring 5G to Pakistan is off to a controversial start. Last month, Zong marketed itself as “the first and only telecom operator...

Central banks are like ocean liners they take time to change directions. Something on those lines was the SBP Governor in a post MPS analysts...

It has been repeatedly highlighted that support price mechanism create distortions in commodity markets by de-coupling producer’s cost from international prices. Since indicative prices are...