The Shifting Landscape of Pakistan’s Formal Workforce (2014-2024): A Decade of Salary Income Dynamics and Socio-Economic Transformation
The Stagnant Middle in Pakistan’s Formal Salary Sector (2014–2024) Using employer-level administrative data from PRAL covering all corporations, state-owned enterprises, and government bodies, as well as partnership businesses and individuals that withhold income tax on salaries, this data story groups employees into five annual salary brackets: 0–600k PKR 600k–1.2M PKR 1.2M–2.4M PKR 2.4M–4.8M PKR 4.8M+ PKR The […]
The August 1st US Tariff Realignment: Analyzing the Trade Destruction and Diversion on Selected Asian Economies
The Trump administration published a new list of additional tariff rates in a document titled “Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates” on July 31st 2025. Pakistan and Thailand face additional tarrifs of 19%. Vietnam and Bangladesh face additional tariff rates of 20%. India faces additional tariff rates of 25% and China faces additional tariff rates […]
The August 1st US Tariff Realignment: Winners, Losers, and Global Trade Uncertainty
The US imposed new tariff rates on its trading partners on July 31st as the White House published the ‘Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates’. This data story brings about a marked change from the previous methodology which involved calculating tariffs based on the level of bilateral trade deficit with the US. The tariff rates […]
What If the Costs Become Untenable? Rethinking SBP’s Monetary Stance
EAG Brief | Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Management What If the Costs Become Untenable? Rethinking SBP’s Monetary Stance Muhammad Adil Mansoor, Economic Advisory Group 02-Aug-2025EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The State Bank of Pakistan has made its position clear. It will not cut policy rates unless Islamabad delivers tangible progress on structural reforms. This marks a deliberate […]
Decoding the National Tariff Policy 2025-2030: The Impact on Different Sources of Imports.
The purpose of the National Tariff Policy 2025-2030 was to not only reduce customs duties, eliminate regulatory duties and additional duties but also simplify the complex structure of the customs duties slabs by reducing their number. As different tariffs are imposed on different products at the national tariff lines, they not only affect the imports […]
Decoding the National Tariff Policy 2025-2030: Transforming the Trading Landscape in Pakistan?
The Economic Advisory Group published a series of data stories on the trade distorting effects of government intervetions through import tariffs in Pakistan between 2015 and 2024. These measures highlighted not only the complex nature of such measures but also the fact that Pakistan in comparison to Vietnam commonly applies such measures to restrict imports. […]
National Tariff Policy 2025-2030: Pictorial presentation of the import tariff cutting exercise
The tariff policy proposed in the National Tariff Policy 2025-2030 by the Ministry of Commerce promises an overhaul of the current import tariff structure in the next five years. It reduces the customs duties slabs to 4 from 5, reduces customs duties to a maximum of 15%, eliminates regulatory duties in the next 5 years, […]
Enforcing the tariff wall via trade-distorting import measures: Curtailing imports across the stages of production
The previous data stories in this series, “Enforcing the tariff wall via trade-distorting import measures: Comparison across measures” and Enforcing the tariff wall via trade-distorting import measures: Cross-country comparison between Pakistan and Vietnam , highlighted the complex web of trade policies imposed by policymakers in Pakistan to curtail imports and how Vietnamese policymakers encouraged better […]
Enforcing the tariff wall via trade-distorting import measures: Cross-country comparison between Pakistan and Vietnam
The previous data story, “Enforcing the tariff wall via trade-distorting import measures: Comparison across measures”, highlighted the complex web of trade policies imposed by policymakers in Pakistan to curtail imports due to various reasons such as rising trade deficits and incentives to promote import-substitution related policies. While the Pakistani policymakers restricted imports, Vietnamese policymakers encouraged […]
Enforcing the tariff wall via trade-distorting import measures: Comparison across measures
Continuing the discussion from the previous data story on import tariffs and custom duties as reported by Ahmed Jamal Pirzada, EAG Member, it is imperative to gauge the number of interventions involving import restricting measures adopted by the Pakistani policymakers to not only curtail imports into the country but also provide incentives to local industries […]