{"id":102843,"date":"2025-07-23T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=102843"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:21:33","slug":"pak-growth-edges-up-inflation-eases-adb-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-growth-edges-up-inflation-eases-adb-outlook.html","title":{"rendered":"Growth edges up, inflation eases: ADB Outlook for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised Pakistan\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) growth estimate for the fiscal year 2025 (ending June 30, 2025) slightly upward to 2.7%, attributing the improvement to better-than-expected performance in the industrial and services sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The updated projection was shared in the ADB\u2019s Asian Development Outlook (ADO) \u2013 July 2025 report released on Wednesday. It marks a modest increase from the bank\u2019s earlier forecast, reflecting stronger domestic economic activity despite challenges in the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tax-filers-rise-tax-to-gdp-ratio-improves.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Record growth in tax filers, tax-to-GDP ratio improves by 1.5%<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPakistan provisionally grew 2.7% in FY2025, resulting in the slight upward revision for FY2025, while the growth forecast for FY2026 is unchanged,\u201d the report stated. The bank noted that industrial and services sector expansion helped offset anticipated declines in agricultural output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ADB also revised Pakistan\u2019s inflation forecast for FY2025 downward, citing easing price pressures. \u201cIn Pakistan, the accelerated decline in food and nonfood prices for the first 11 months of FY2025 revised the inflation forecast for FY2025 downward, while the outlook for FY2026 remains unchanged,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a broader scale, the ADB has lowered its overall economic growth forecasts for developing Asia and the Pacific amid global trade uncertainty, rising tariffs, and weaker domestic demand. The region is now expected to grow by 4.7% in 2025, down 0.2 percentage points from its April 2025 projection. The 2026 forecast has also been reduced to 4.6% from 4.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report warned that escalating United States (U.S.) tariffs, rising geopolitical tensions, disruptions to global supply chains, and energy price volatility could further dampen growth prospects in the region. It also highlighted concerns over China\u2019s property market slowdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/adb-holds-paks-gdp-growth-steady-at-2-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADB holds Pakistan\u2019s GDP growth outlook steady at 2.5%<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAsia and the Pacific have weathered an increasingly challenging external environment this year. But the economic outlook has weakened amid intensifying risks and global uncertainty,\u201d said ADB Chief Economist Albert Park. He urged regional economies to focus on strengthening fundamentals, promoting open trade, and deepening regional integration to sustain investment, employment, and growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within South Asia, the ADB revised its 2025 growth forecast slightly downward to 5.9%, from 6.0% projected earlier. This adjustment was attributed mainly to revised estimates for India and Sri Lanka, impacted by U.S. tariff policies and trade disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised Pakistan\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) growth estimate for the fiscal year 2025 (ending June 30, 2025) slightly upward to 2.7%, attributing the improvement to better-than-expected performance in the industrial and services sectors. The updated projection was shared in the ADB\u2019s Asian Development Outlook (ADO) \u2013 July 2025 report released on Wednesday. It marks a modest increase from the bank\u2019s earlier forecast, reflecting stronger domestic economic activity despite challenges in the agricultural sector. Read: Record growth in tax filers, tax-to-GDP ratio improves by 1.5% \u201cPakistan provisionally grew 2.7% in FY2025, resulting in the slight upward revision for FY2025, while the growth forecast for FY2026 is unchanged,\u201d the report stated. The bank noted that industrial and services sector expansion helped offset anticipated declines in agricultural output. The ADB also revised Pakistan\u2019s inflation forecast for FY2025 downward, citing easing price pressures. \u201cIn Pakistan, the accelerated decline in food and nonfood prices for the first 11 months of FY2025 revised the inflation forecast for FY2025 downward, while the outlook for FY2026 remains unchanged,\u201d the report said. On a broader scale, the ADB has lowered its overall economic growth forecasts for developing Asia and the Pacific amid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":60777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[66413,2086,66410,62178,61415,61439,66408,62813,64046,63076,34475,58808,66414,66411,66409,66412,63685],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-adb-outlook","9":"tag-asian-development-bank","10":"tag-developing-asia","11":"tag-economic-forecast","12":"tag-economic-reforms","13":"tag-fiscal-year-2025","14":"tag-fy2025-growth","15":"tag-industrial-sector","16":"tag-inflation-forecast","17":"tag-inflation-trends","18":"tag-pakistan-economy","19":"tag-pakistan-gdp","20":"tag-regional-growth","21":"tag-services-sector","22":"tag-south-asia-economy","23":"tag-trade-tensions","24":"tag-us-tariffs","25":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pak growth edges up, inflation eases: ADB Outlook - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ADB also revised Pakistan\u2019s inflation forecast for FY2025 downward, citing easing price pressures. \u201cIn Pakistan....\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-growth-edges-up-inflation-eases-adb-outlook.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pak growth edges up, inflation eases: ADB Outlook - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ADB also revised Pakistan\u2019s inflation forecast for FY2025 downward, citing easing price pressures. \u201cIn Pakistan....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-growth-edges-up-inflation-eases-adb-outlook.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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