Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Wednesday said with 18 percent profit, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained the ‘most profitable’ among the world’s markets.
یہ فہرست دیکھیں پاکستان کی اسٹاک مارکیٹ دنیا میں 18فیصد منافع کے ساتھ سب سے منافع بخش اسٹاک مارکیٹ رہی ان کمپنیوں نے2020 میں 272ارب روپیہ اپنے شہر ہولڈرز کو دیا اور 2021 میں یہ منافع 498 ارب روپیہ ہے pic.twitter.com/ps5TTeV1il
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) January 5, 2022
The companies listed at the PSX paid dividends amounting to around Rs 272 billion to their shareholders in 2020, while that profit touched the mark of Rs 498 billion in 2021, he added in a tweet.
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The minister also tweeted the list of companies at the PSX showing remarkable growth in the dividends paid during the last two years.
The economic damage
Mid 2021 gave a brief reprieve from the pandemic, allowing the Pakistani government to postpone future large-scale lockdowns until the second and third waves of the pandemic. Was there a total return to pre-lockdown levels because of this? Without a doubt, the period of relief following the first wave resulted in a strong recovery for residents.
The recovery, however, has been incomplete. Around 3 million residents were unable to reclaim their occupations a quarter after the initial wave of lockdowns ended and average income remained 5.5 percent below pre-lockdown levels in November 2020.
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This can be problematic for two reasons. First, available data does not account for the impact of the second and third waves’ lockdowns. The improvements gained during the period of respite are likely to have been hampered or reversed because of these lockdowns. Second, an incomplete recovery a quarter after the first wave of lockdowns ended raises fears that structural unemployment has risen.
APP with additional input by GVS News Desk