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Key Findings on agriculture and food and nutrition security: * Climate change is expected to raise global mean temperatures, leading to more extreme heat and flooding, which...

Pakistan faced an economic crisis at the beginning of fiscal year (FY)24 with heightened risks of debt default. Political uncertainty, fiscal and external imbalances and global monetary tightening...

South Asia is expected to remain the world’s fastest-growing region, thanks to robust growth in India. However, this strong outlook is deceptive. For most countries, growth is still below...

Numerous structural vulnerabilities put developing regions at a disadvantage as they confront the prospect of increasingly frequent extreme shocks. Typical of these regions, South Asia had...

Pakistan’s strong post-pandemic recovery came to a halt in fiscal year (FY)23 with the delayed withdrawal of COVID-19-era policy stimulus leaving large accumulated economic imbalances...

At just under six percent, South Asia is expected to grow faster than any other developing country region this year—but slower than its pre-pandemic pace and not...

Pakistan’s economy continues to face the effects of recent flooding and the expansionary and counterproductive policy response, with precariously low foreign reserves and high inflation. The Government has taken...

Highlights: Across goods categories, inflation of food items has gone up or stayed high, while energy-related inflation has mostly come down more, compared...

Supported by accommodative macroeconomic policy, Pakistan’s economy saw robust growth in FY22, at the cost of growing economic imbalances. The Government has begun to further tighten policy...