Investment steps lack transparency
Motivation. design: Ibrahim Yahya Islamabad: A Treasury report has accepted that the absence of structured transparency in the initiatives of the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) could undermine policy predictability and weaken investor confidence. In the Prime Minister’s 240-page agenda for Economic Governance Reforms, the finance ministry pledged to bring transparency to SIFC’s affairs, the report released last week showed. The ministry prepared the report as part of an action plan of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment. “The absence of structured transparency around strategic investment initiatives, including those facilitated through the SIFC, creates information asymmetries












