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Lahore School of Economics Collaborated with The World Bank to Organize the Launch of the World Bank Pakistan Development Update Spring 2017

Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product growth in Fiscal Year 2017 is expected to climb to 5.2 percent - the highest in nine years -- and the growth rate will continue to accelerate, reaching 5.5 percent in FY18 and 5.8 percent in FY19.
The report was launched in Lahore on Saturday, 20th of May, 2017 in collaboration with the Lahore School of Economics.

reserves have fallen by another billion dollars. What option have we now but to seek outside assistance?" Unfortunately, we all underestimated the cost of this bailout. The measures agreed on with the IMF sent growth tumbling down to an historical low of 0.7pc in the first year of the programme's implementation and the economy never quite recovered.

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