Key Economic Indicators

Key Economic Indicators
		July-February
Items	Unit	2007-08	2008-09	% Change
Large-scale Manufacturing@	%	5.2	-5.4	-
Inflation	%	8.9	23.5	-
- Food	%	13.0	28.9	-
- Non-Food	%	5.9	19.3	-
- Core Inflation*	%	6.8	17.8	-
Tax Collection (FBR) - Direct Tax - Indirect Tax - Sales Tax § Import Related § Domestic - Customs Duty - Central Excise	Rs. Billion	585.4 216.7 368.7 228.1 126.1 102.0 86.6 54.0	702.5 256.3 446.1 283.4 133.0 150.4 93.0 69.7	20.0 18.3 21.0 24.3 6.0 47.0 7.3 29.0
Exports (FOB)	$ Million	12,482	13,015	4.3
Imports (FOB)	$ Million	21,776	21,878	0.5
Trade Balance	$ Million	-9,294	-8,863	4.6 Improvement
Remittances	$ Million	4,126.0	4,919.0	19.2
Current Account Deficit	$ Million	8,645.0	7,455.0	13.8
Foreign Investment (Total)	$ Million	2,873.4	1,892.1	-34.2
- FDI (Private)	$ Million	2,789.1	2,794.4	0.2
- Portfolio (Private)**	$ Million	113.8	-367.0	-422.5
- Public Investment**	$ Million	-29.5	-535.3	-1714.6
FOREX Reserves (End Feb.)	$ Billion	14.1	10.1	-
Exchange-Rate (Avg. Feb.)	Rs /US$	62.6	79.6	21.4 (Depreciation)
Lending Rate (Avg. Jan.)	%	11.3	14.1
@ Data available for July-Jan. ** Public Investment is mainly in OGDCL GDRs and debt equities while MCB GDRs are included in Private Portfolio investment * Core-Inflation is calculated by excluding food group and energy group consists of kerosen, electricity, natural gas, petrol and diesel.