The federal statistical discrepancy – a term used to describe untraceable expenses or unknown revenues – shot up dangerously to nearly Rs320 billion during the first half of this fiscal year, admitted ...

A New York Times article today commented on the extraordinary jump in wages over the last two quarters. Before anyone breaks out the champagne, take a look at the statistical discrepancy in the GDP ...

AUTHENTICITY of official statistics has always been widely questioned in Pakistan. One reason for the controversy is that policymaking — poverty, economic growth, sectoral outputs and prices — is ...

Unlike any foreign grant, Pakistan has not treated $1.5 billion (Rs157 billion) gift from Saudi Arabia as non-tax revenues and instead declared the huge sum a statistical discrepancy in its budgetary ...

ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The IMF has asked the government to remove various statistical discrepancies and direct the provinces to improve reporting on their fiscal operations. The Fund officials, according ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. So, farewell then, picturesque term for life’s little ripostes to double-entry accounting and the ‘balance’ ...

Chief economic adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran has rejected criticism of “statistical discrepancy” in the first quarter GDP data, saying when the same statistical authority reported the severest ...

According to Press reports, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has started probing the figures presented by the government regarding fiscal deficit, expenses and revenue collection. This has been ...

In practice, there is a statistical discrepancy, which rose to a record high of $328 billion (saar) during Q1. In other words, the economy looks better when the BEA adds up all the incomes than when ...

The commerce authorities of China and the United States on Friday unveiled a report on a statistical discrepancy in merchandise trade, saying the discrepancy's share in bilateral trade is dropping.