Infrastructure: Pakistan’s unending energy crisis and high-end user costs have enormously damaged industrial growth and diversification,...
Provinces contribute only one per cent of GDP to national taxes
The end purpose of an industrial policy for Pakistan should be to achieve competitiveness through higher productivity which brings greater profits...
Instead of choosing the winners and losers which was the case with the industrial policy 1.0, the thrust of the new policy that is still evolving is...
The foreign exchange earnings from jute exports which originated from former East Pakistan were pre-empted for allocation to industrialists in what...
Recent developments in the Western countries have reopened the discourse on the need for an industrial policy. Pakistan, which has gone through...
Pakistan will have to develop a unified market linking the farms to retail outlets covering the full supply chain particularly in high-value...
Mechanization, technology and advisory services: one of the major constraints facing small holders is the lack of resources and knowledge about...
Import substitution and export promotion: agro-based exports fetch 75-80 per cent of total earnings but the direct exports of agricultural...
At present, the canal irrigation management system recovers only a quarter of its repair and maintenance costs. In the 1970s, the entire cost was...
