
The Pakistan Experience The truth behind Pakistan's "Economic Growth" - Khurram Hussain - Journalist - TPE 112
Khurram Hussain is a Business and Economy Journalist at DAWN, Pakistan's leading Newspaper. Khurram Hussain comes on the podcast to unmask the provisional economic growth rate of 3.9% given by the Government. On this deep dive discussion, we get into the question of if the GDP growth actually help uplift the impoverished in Pakistan, the myth of trickle down economics, and what Pakistan can do to make economic growth sustainable. Are we headed towards another IMF program? Does the current account surplus matter? Should the state bank be autonomous? Exposing the property file racket. Find out this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
5:00 Shaukat Aziz
8:00 Unmasking the 3.9% Economic Growth Rate
20:00 IMF Packages - Are we going for another one?
24:00 Direct cash injections vs Corporate handouts
34:00 Corporate Power in Pakistan
41:00 India
47:00 Are economists disconnected from ground realities?
53:00 Property file racket
1:06:00 The economy is growing but for whom?
1:21:00 What is stopping sustainable Economic Growth?
1:29:00 Is PTI cleaning PML-N's economic mess?
1:41:40 Does the Current Account Surplus matter?
144:40 Remittances
1:48:20 Indirect taxation vs Direct taxation
1:53:50 Is the economy out of the woods?
2:03:00 Musharaff vs PPP vs PMLN vs PTI - Who was the economy good for?
2:07:30 Should the state bank be autonomous?
2:10:30 IMF's projections for Pakistan
2:15:30 Why isn't there more business/economic journalism in Pakistan?
2:20:25 One good thing Imran Khan has done
