Pakistan

"This country diagnostic study examines the binding constraints to pakistan achieving strong, sustained, and inclusive growth, and offers recommendations on how to tackle them. pakistan faces many and varied economic challenges, including a lack of export competitiveness, weaknesses in the power sector, low foreign direct investment and domestic savings, underdeveloped human capital, and uncontrolled urbanization. the study recommends promoting exports in diverse sectors and making established export industries more competitive, improving the business environment to increase investments and savings, reforming the power sector, improving access to and the quality of education and health services to increase labor productivity, and investing in orderly urbanization processes. pakistan can build on the significant reforms that have been initiated and seize growth opportunities."

Year

2020

Language

English

Publisher

Asian Development Bank

Editions

1

Pages

290

ISBN

9789292626143

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