Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades : can it be sustained ? : Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades : can it be sustained? (English)

Using standard statistical growth analysis, the author shows that Pakistan's growth is the result of: (a) rapid capital accumulation. Pakistan's investment rate was relatively low but its fixed investment rate grew steadily in the 1970s, stabilizing at about 17 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the mid-1980s; (b) growth of the labor force, which offset a tendency toward capital intensity of production; (c) more competition from external...

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Author

Ahmed,Sadiq;
Document Date
1994/08/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS1341
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Pakistan,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Doc Name
Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades : can it be sustained?
Keywords
fiscal deficit

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Ahmed,Sadiq.

Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades : can it be sustained ? : Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades : can it be sustained? (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 1314 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/574591468780275875

Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades : can it be sustained ? : Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades : can it be sustained? (English)

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