Dossier
primary surpluses
Coverage of primary surpluses in the Nexus archive.
- How Pakistan stabilised its way into poverty in 21 graphs
Pakistan's Economic Survey highlights a hard-won stabilization in economic conditions but underscores unresolved root issues: an underperforming tax system, uncompetitive exchange rate, flawed industrial policy, and a broken fiscal federalism model. The government achieved back-to-back primary surpluses in FY2024 and FY2025, marking the first such streak in two decades, while inflation has decreased.