In eight months and one week of this fiscal year — between July 1, 2023, and March 8, 2024 — the federal government’s budgetary borrowings from commercial banks more than doubled to about Rs4.2 trillion from Rs2.01tr. Meanwhile, the private sector’s net borrowings slumped to Rs73 billion from Rs246bn. Want to know more about why banks and bankers generally remain …
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March 25, 2024