Rupee dollar parity – two

As per Ansar’s request, here is a breakdown of our imports for December 2008. All figures in ‘000 US$.

Food Groups

  

236,176

 

Machinery

 

486,280

 

Mobile phones

 

  

10,149

Transport

 

107,040

 

Petrochemicals

 

403,592

 

Textiles

 

132,305

 

All others

  

761,520

 

 
 
 
 

 
 

2,126,913

 

 
If numbers like these excite you, you should take a look at the Federal Bureau of Statistics website. They have done and carry on doing a great job on the data collection [...]

January 22, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, PASHA, Pakistan, entrepreneurs  One Comment

Finally some good news…

One under-reported item that slid by everyone. It’s a piece of news that all of us have been waiting for on the economic front for the last few months.

As per the latest numbers released by FBS, Pakistani exports were stable on a month to month basis (November and October) as well as stable on [...]

December 25, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Pakistan, the economy stupid  3 Comments