Pakistan's fiscal target may prove difficult to achieve

Pakistan’s federal budget was announced late last week with the aim to narrow the chronic fiscal deficit. The government is rightly looking to broaden the tax base and scale back subsidies, but improvement on the fiscal side has historically proven difficult in practice. The government will need to avoid borrowing heavily from the central bank (SBP) to prevent renewed interest rate hikes.

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