Crisis to Growth: Pakistan's Reform Agenda for Economic Revival 

One of the best lectures for suggesting greatest reforms. Thumbs 👍...

This is pure comedy but Nadeem makes a good point and is very sarcastic

The problem isn’t the IMF recommendations but that Pakistan doesn’t follow them. India, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea were in an IMF program in the 1990s and never had to go back. All 4 countries are thriving now. To answer one of the questions about how the Pakistan would manage its budget in the short term without raising taxes, his response was - what prevents donors from lending more. Huh? Why should donors lend more to a country which refuses to generate sufficient tax from its own citizens? It would make sense if he suggested that tax structure should be reformed and under taxes sectors like Retail and real estate should be taxed more. But he says those sectors are already overtaxed. Pakistan needs to go to foreign institutions like IMF because they can give Pakistan the forex it needs, unlike the local thinkers who clearly cannot. Going by the ideas PIDE is coming up with, it is a good thing that local ideas such as those spouted by PIDE are not what Pakistan is relying on. High inflation and low growth is the price to slow down an overheated economy. But once the economy stabilizes, Pakistan doesn’t take the next step - reforming the tax sector to encourage productive sectors and improve productivity in the economy. It immediately goes back to spending big time to spur growth leading to overheating and another trip to IMF.

In 1947, when Hindus and Sikhs were kicked out, you lost all your business minded people......And in return you got Nawabi type Muhajir from Lucknow who were only good for salaryman jobs.....In effect you kicked out job creators and got job takers in return.....

Great talk. This guy is very smart.

Sir jee our establishment is insane. You can give as many lecture as you can. Establishment will do whatever they want.

Well done 👍 sir

Stop corruption and nd everything will be okay.

Nationalize IPPS Remove income tax for all Make industry duty free Get out of WTO and save yourself from dumping import Send max manpower abroad to get more remittance (India /pak per capita remittance is same )

He has no idea about privatisation or modes of privatisation at 13:55. He said why don’t they do it on stock market.

Iskp ?

You know what ? , you are SO SO FULL OF URSELF

😂 you are being so vocal and honest that I pray for your safety.On a lighter note 😅,they have opened the economy, don't you look at mega wheat scandal in Punjab,they have already minted 100s of billions,must have shifted kickbacks abroad 😅,Sindh is buying @ announced rate of 4000/ ,also paying the same without hue and cry but look at Punjab 😅😂 the very serious wilful damage done to Agriculture and economy of Punjab/Pakistan ,so very hard to recover.you better shelve your podcasts for a while and work on this? will you? Or you have also decided 🤪 not to change 😅?

He is too pessimist. There is no solution in his speech. He is old and outdated.

Sir, Inflation is one of the major economy killer. SBP has miserably failed to control inflation, it's objective of existence. Is it a waste to spend billions on SBP? Any economic reform must start with Demonetization. To do it without big disruption SBP has to immediately Re-implement RTGS, seamless STP, Aand Front End Banking Solution, Single OmniChannel for small payments, OneWindow Taz Deposit system be implemented. We tried to do all right during 2001 - 2009 but the system was sabotaged. Muhammed Saleem Rehmani, Digital Transformation Specialist appointed as first CFO/Director Accounts in 2001.

Doing same thing over and over again & expecting different results is Insanity - Einstein Entering the 24th IMF program with adjustment still a distant dream Growth is likely to remain well below what is required by our young and over indebted economy The economy is near default and likely to remain so, even in the IMF scenario, Over the next 3 - 4 years, the IMF says there will be a huge financing gap, probably larger than our reserves. Pakistan's external financial requirements exceed USD 120 billion over the next 5 years. We require higher than 8% sustained growth. PIDE recommends complementary actions with the IMF program to: - Enhance growth - Increase exports - Improve productivity - Increase investment - Grow outward-looking listed corporates - Develop brands and domestic market This Debate was a joint venture of PIDE & WorldBank titled "Reform Priorities For Pakistan: Fiscal & Governance Reforms"

For Allah sake stop giving examples of India and drawing false equivalence with India . All Pakistanis thinks that India has done good in some sectors so they can do like in IT , Pharmaceutical , Auto Industry , Digital economy , Telecom revolution , Fintec , Services sector etc etc . Forgetting that India is highly qualified , educated society .

USSP - Union of Soviet Socialist Pakistan.

Colonialism is over or not?

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How can you tax DHA😂😂😂😂

Intellectual Outburst 😮. The old man has gone bonkers.

Why do you go back to IMF, they don't beg you to take loans