Corruption:
Transparency International has ranked Pakistan 140th out of 180 countries in its latest Corruption Perceptions Index report. This deals a blow to Imran Khan, whose party promised to eradicate corruption from the country.
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Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2021, the Berlin-based watchdog ranked the South Asian country 140th out of 180 countries, with 180th being the most corrupt country in the world.
Pakistan was ranked 124th in 2020, 120th in 2019, and 117th in 2018.
Health Insurance:
The programme is aimed at providing quality healthcare to the poor in public and private hospitals.
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National health insurance initiative was launched by Nawaz Sharif in December 2015. The scheme was designed for the poor families with free of cost access to secondary as well as priority diseases treatment. The annual cover of the scheme was up to Rs300,000 extendable to Rs600,000. In 2021, IK changed the name from PM National Health Insurance Program to "Sehat card"
In the first phase it was launched in 23 districts of Pakistan including Baluchistan, KPK, Singh, Azad Kashmir etc.
Debt:
The size of foreign loans has been increasing over the last three and half years from $10.59bn in 2018-19 to $10.662bn in 2019-20.
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Struggling with current account challenges and foreign exchange reserves, the ousted PTI government borrowed about $15.4 billion in foreign loans in the first nine months (July-March) of the current fiscal year, more than 70pc higher than the foreign loans it received in the comparable period last year.
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ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail on Saturday said that the incumbent government has saved the country from default, as the
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Reserves fell because of PTI's stupid economic policies lead by Shaukat Tareen who was the same FM during PPP rule. Specifically, PTI caused wheat and sugar shortages in the country and gave fuel subsidies of billions of dollars.
Growth rate and FDI:
Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at market prices based on constant local currency. Aggregates are based on constant 2010 U.S. dollars. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the...
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GDP growth rate was rising steadily since PML-N took over from PPP in 2013 and clocked in at 6.2% in 2018 when they left.
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Despite Khan's famous 126 days of dharna in 2014, operation Zarb e azb, Karachi operation etc etc and looming power crisis which Pakistan witness 12+ hour of load shedding, Pakistan was able to get trust and investment of $40 billion from China under CPEC between 2014-2018 and hundreds of thousands of jobs were created directly and indirectly.
Installed generation capacity has gone beyond 29,000 megawatts
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The main reason behind GDP growth rate was due to power production during PML-N rule. When you have a surplus of over 11,000 MW of electricity the foundation had been laid for economic boom beyond 2018.
At the moment:
Account is already in surplus and reserves have risen and will rise more so after IMF deal and Arab deposits. Furthermore, cheap Russian oil has been bought and it will help economy because at the moment Pakistan pays $13 billion in imports and payment to Russians will not be in dollars.
