IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pje/journl/article1998vii.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Industrial Development In Pakistan

Author

Listed:
  • A.R. KEMAL

Abstract

As the manufacturing industries of Pakistan have grown sharply since Independence, they have suffered from gross inefficiencies; resulting in enormous cost to the economy. The cost was as high as 5.7 per cent of GDP in 1980-81 slightly falling to 5 per cent by 1990-91. The study calls for a protection structure that accords with dynamic comparative advantage of the country for an improvement in industrial efficiency. It points out the need for consistent economic investment levels. The study shows that as the import-substitution was a major source of demand in the initial stages, the domestic demand has been the major source of growth in the subsequent periods. The study also suggests both the stimulation of domestic demand and higher level of investment for an industrial recovery.

Suggested Citation

  • A.R. Kemal, 1998. "Industrial Development In Pakistan," Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Applied Economics Research Centre, vol. 14, pages 107-119.
    • Handle: RePEc:pje:journl:article1998vii
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://aerc.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Industrial-Development-in-Pakistan-5th-Paper-Page-107-119-1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Bushra Yasmin, 2009. "Trade Liberalization and the Lead Role of Human Capital and Job Attributes in Wage Determination: The Case of Pakistan’s Labor Market," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 14(1), pages 1-37, Jan-Jun.
    2. Mohammad Afzal, 2006. "Causality between exports, world income and economic growth in Pakistan," International Economic Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(1), pages 63-77.
    3. Bushra Yasmin & Aliya H. Khan, 2011. "Trade Openness: New Evidence for Labor-Demand Elasticity in Pakistan's Manufacturing Sector," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 16(2), pages 55-85, Jul-Dec.
    4. Inayat U. Mangla & Muslehud Din, 2015. "The Impact of the Macroeconomic Environment on Pakistan’s Manufacturing Sector," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 20(Special E), pages 241-260, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pje:journl:article1998vii. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Samina Khalil (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aekarpk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.