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PSST GGOOBI MEETS PROSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS IN UK: The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST),Ramathan Ggoobi has given assurance to prospective development partners in the United Kingdom that Uganda has a stable and well managed macroeconomy with significant growth potential over the long term. He said the...

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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stressed the need to focus on sustainable economic growth, job creation, and export promotion, as the country has successfully restored macroeconomic stability through a collaborative team effort. The prime minister, in his virtual address at the Gong Ceremony, held in Karachi, to celebrate the listing of the Naya Nazimabad Apartment REIT scheme, lauded the joint efforts of the federal and provincial governments and financial institutions in steering the national economy out of severe challenges. The prime minister was accompanied by federal ministers Attaullah Tarar, Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Dr. Musadik Malik, and others. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, prominent business leader Arif Habib, and leading corporate figures attended the event which started with the cake-cutting to celebrate the occasion. Recalling his recent interactions with international bankers and financial leaders in New York and London, including executives from Citibank, JPMorgan, and Barclays and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, the prime minister noted that global financial institutions had commended Pakistan’s implementation of long-overdue structural reforms, creating an attractive ecosystem for investment. He particularly thanked the finance minister, cabinet members, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), and federal secretaries for establishing a replicable model of teamwork to achieve macroeconomic stability that has brought Pakistan back onto the path of sustainable development. He said that the successful implementation of reforms and macroeconomic stability were the result of a cohesive partnership between the political hierarchy and military leadership working in complete harmony. Highlighting key economic indicators, he pointed out that Pakistan successfully achieved a $3 billion Eurobond issuance with $6 billion in offers, while State Bank foreign exchange reserves have risen to around $21.4 billion, alongside commercial bank reserves of $5.5 billion. He said that foreign remittances and IT exports were on an upward trajectory, while the Roshan Digital Account was performing robustly. However, stressing the shift from stabilisation to growth, Prime Minister called for efforts to achieve economic growth driven by technology, employment generation, production, and exports to boost the national economy. The prime minister recalled that the federal budget for 2026–27 offered hundreds of billions of rupees in tax breaks and incentives for exporters, manufacturers, and industries, including the construction sector. He said the incentives introduced by the government for the construction sector were coming to fruition. He specifically commended the real estate and industrial initiatives spearheaded by business leaders like Arif Habib in Lahore and Karachi under the REIT structure, urging further modernisation and improvement of the stock exchange and capital markets by studying other markets in the region. The prime minister expressed deep concern over the poor performance of certain industries having received heavy subsidies and tariff walls,and making commitments repeatedly to ensure import substitution and promote competitiveness. He called for an honest approach prioritising national interest over personal gains, stressing that progress relied on modernised machinery, productivity, and hard work. Prime Minister particularly appreciated Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, for his steadfast support and commitment to national security and economic progress,acting as a great partner throughout the journey. He also lauded the Chairman NAB for recovering public land worth billions of rupees and the plan to establish a land bank. He reiterated his resolve that through such dedicated efforts and commitment, Pakistan would emerge as a powerful economy and earn fame in the comity of nations.

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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially commenced the nine-month performance review for the 2017 E.C. earlier today. The session began with a macroeconomic presentation, which provided an overview of the impact of global economic trends on the local economy, as well as an update on the progress of ongoing macroeconomic reforms. It was highlighted that the global economy is projected to grow by 3.3% in 2025, with most regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, showing positive trends. Ethiopia’s growth is forecasted at 8.4%. As a result of Ethiopia’s macroeconomic reform program aimed at fostering a stable macro environment, both savings and investments have shown an upward trajectory. The external debt-to-GDP ratio has significantly declined, currently standing at 13.7%. Furthermore, the introduction of a new foreign exchange regime has led to increased remittance inflows and a rise in foreign currency reserves. Export earnings from agriculture, mining, industry, and electricity have all seen an increase compared to the same period last year, with the top five export earners comprising coffee, gold, pulses, oilseeds, flowers, and electricity. The review also highlighted notable progress in key infrastructure and large-scale projects. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), for instance, has reached 98.66% completion, with six units currently operational. This morning’s presentation concluded with a review of sustainable development efforts, emphasising inclusivity as a key performance indicator. It also outlined initiatives aimed at creating an enabling environment for sustainable development. #PMOEthiopia

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Dr Pali Lehohla says South Africa’s economy should be 3x what it is, but the government is too stupid, corrupt and greedy. Dr Lehohla’s assessment resonate with many people because because it presents a straightforward diagnosis that if you simply root out corruption and adopt better ideas, the potential of the economy will be unlocked. By saying that it’s just stupidity, corruption and lack of “imagination”, Dr Lehohla appears to disregard how South Africa’s economy is structured. For starters, South Africa’s policy strategy, particularly since 1996 and especially in 2000 with the introduction of inflation-targeting, has relied heavily on attracting foreign portfolio flows to cover its chronic current account deficit. This is what has largely kept South Africa as Africa’s leading economy. The steady flow of hundreds of billions of dollars helps South Africa cover its foreign currency shortages which it desperately needs to trade in international markets. Now, to keep these financial inflows coming, National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank must prioritise high real interest rates and financial market stability to reassure foreign bondholders that SA is a safe space for their dollars, pounds and euros. Although these high interest rates attract foreign bond buyers, they also make borrowing expensive for local businesses, which stifles job creation, hence SA’s high unemployment rate. To National Treasury and the Reserve Bank, these are just the costs of doing business. The point is that contrary to popular belief, the Treasury isn’t acting out of ignorance or lack of vision. They are aware that if they were to deviate too sharply to pursue aggressive growth policies, they would risk a currency collapse, soaring inflation and other quite serious economic problems they would rather not deal with. Someone may argue that adopting these policies all those years ago in the first place *is* the stupidity Dr Lehohla is lamenting. This may very well be the case, but still, there were reasons beyond just a lack of imagination. For one, when the original GNU took office in 1994, it inherited an economy that had been isolated by sanctions, burdened by high public debt and severely capital-starved. The South African Reserve Bank had virtually no foreign exchange reserves to defend the currency or finance international trade. The SARB had no reserves because its senior officials had pilfered and looted the money when it started looking apparent that the White minority government would collapse. Because of this, South Africa had gone from an economy designed to comfortably serve 10% of the population, to one that had to service tens of millions more overnight. But the internal savings were far too low to finance the massive infrastructure and industrial development needed for this. To grow the economy and meet these new social goals, South Africa needed to import capital equipment and consumer goods. However, the country needed to importing far more than it was exporting which created a persistent current account deficit and without domestic savings to bridge the gap, the government had to desperately attract foreign capital. That’s how the foreign investors came swooping in. But there was also something that happened in the early 1990s that spooked the ANC and convinced leadership at National Treasury and the Reserve Bank that the country was hyper-vulnerable to foreign currency shortages. In early 1996, South Africa experienced a sudden capital outflow when rumours and market uncertainty caused foreign investors to pull short-term capital out of the country. As a result, the Rand depreciated by over 20% in a few months and because official foreign exchange reserves were so low, the Reserve Bank was powerless to defend the currency. So, to prevent currency collapses that would spark runaway inflation and destroy purchasing power, the government concluded it had to prioritise foreign investor confidence above everything else. So, in response to the 1996 crisis, the ANC shifted away from the state-led Redistribution and Development Programme and introduced GEAR which committed the country to the public budget and removing foreign exchange controls to reassure foreign investors that they could move their money in and out freely. In short, South Africa adopted the current way of doing things as a deliberate strategy to solve the fundamental dilemma of how to finance a growing, open economy with insufficient domestic savings and low foreign exchange reserves. Now, to be fair to Dr Lehohla, he could be saying they were stupid and spineless for caving to foreign pressure when they could have stood their ground and doubled down on state-led industrial development. In which case, I tend to agree. I would go a bit further and say what Treasury is doing may have been a necessity in 1996, but was already unnecessary by 2006, let alone in 2026. South Africa now has $75 to 80 billion in gross reserves vs. almost zero in 1996. So, the original scarcity rationale is diminished. Yet Treasury has continuously been running an austerity programme, even during commodity booms like in the 2000s when it could have built fiscal buffers and invested in infrastructure. So Dr Lehohla’s lack of imagination accusation appears to land when you ask *why* the ANC government never adapted its strategy throughout the decades as conditions changed. The answer to this question is disheartening. The reality is that if the government, through Treasury, were to attempt to change its economic trajectory, what happened in 1996 would repeat. Vested interests would pull capital, short the rand, spread negative news and systematically suffocate the economy until the government falls back in line. Still, Dr Lehohla is correct that the ANC has been stupid for a while. In the last twenty years they could have built countervailing power like through a sovereign wealth fund, a regional payment system outside dollar dominance, strategic reserves of essentials or diversified trading partners to reduce USD dependency. Instead, they accepted dependence on short-term foreign dollars, which is why they now have to keep going back to the IMF and World Bank to borrow more of those dollars. Similarly, the National Treasury has internalised the market’s preferences so completely that they now believe austerity is good policy instead of coercion. As Antonio Gramsci warned, the dominant ideology has now become common sense.

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