Pakistan Economy: Drastic measures make for an unruly quarter
- Headline inflation continues its upward trajectory, with the upcoming Jun'19 reading expected to touch a multi-year high of 9.65%YoY vs. 9.11%YoY in the preceding month and 5.21%YoY in Jun'18. Sequentially, the consumer price index is likely to go up by 1.06%MoM.
- Inflationary pressures are primarily stemming from i) rising food prices (food index: up 1.77%MoM), ii) higher retail fuel prices pushed by PkR weakness (transport index: up 1.86%MoM) and iii) general price hike in certain categories (i.e. tobacco & sugar) in anticipation of FY20 budget.
- With macro-adjustments (i.e. both in fiscal and energy space) finally setting in from Jul'19, we see a steep increase in inflation, with headline inflation averaging at 11.73%YoY in FY20 before peaking out at 13.59%YoY in Sep'19 (primarily driven by utility rate hike).
- The upfront nature of proposed adjustments should necessitate a tough policy response from the central bank, where we expect it to raise the policy rate by at least 150bps in the upcoming monetary policy announcement.
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