Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future

Pakistan has several difficult decisions to make. Despite a challenging start and a complex political history, Pakistan's economy grew fast in its earlier years, improving the lives of its citizens. Pakistan was considered an example of successful development in its first 30 years. This has sin...

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spelling okr-10986-313352021-05-25T09:21:53Z Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future World Bank GROWTH DRIVERS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HUMAN CAPITAL EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT FERTILITY RESOURCE ALLOCATION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT TRADE LIBERALIZATION TAX REVENUE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACCESS TO WATER GOVERNANCE REFORM INSTITUTIONS ACCOUNTABILITY TRANSPARENCY Pakistan has several difficult decisions to make. Despite a challenging start and a complex political history, Pakistan's economy grew fast in its earlier years, improving the lives of its citizens. Pakistan was considered an example of successful development in its first 30 years. This has since changed, and Pakistan is struggling to keep pace with the growth and transformation of its peers. Improvements in development outcomes have become slow and uneven. Pakistan@100 seeks to identify the main changes that will be necessary if Pakistan is to become a strong upper middle-income country by the time it turns 100 years old in 2047. The decisions over the next decade will determine Pakistan's future. Will Pakistan rise to the challenges ahead and transform its economy? Or will Pakistan continue with the mixed record of reform implementation, failing to address the key constraints to growth, while another generation of Pakistanis sees limited welfare improvements? This overview report together with the seven policy notes that were prepared in parallel provides a vision of the type of economy that Pakistan could have by 2047. The report illustrates the type of changes that are possible, and it discusses a limited number of priority reforms that will be necessary to address the most pressing constraints to accelerating and sustaining growth. 2019-02-27T16:17:08Z 2019-02-27T16:17:08Z 2019-03-17 Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31335 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth Study South Asia Pakistan
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topic GROWTH DRIVERS
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN CAPITAL
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
FERTILITY
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TAX REVENUE
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
ACCESS TO WATER
GOVERNANCE REFORM
INSTITUTIONS
ACCOUNTABILITY
TRANSPARENCY
spellingShingle GROWTH DRIVERS
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN CAPITAL
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
FERTILITY
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TAX REVENUE
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
ACCESS TO WATER
GOVERNANCE REFORM
INSTITUTIONS
ACCOUNTABILITY
TRANSPARENCY
World Bank
Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future
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Pakistan
description Pakistan has several difficult decisions to make. Despite a challenging start and a complex political history, Pakistan's economy grew fast in its earlier years, improving the lives of its citizens. Pakistan was considered an example of successful development in its first 30 years. This has since changed, and Pakistan is struggling to keep pace with the growth and transformation of its peers. Improvements in development outcomes have become slow and uneven. Pakistan@100 seeks to identify the main changes that will be necessary if Pakistan is to become a strong upper middle-income country by the time it turns 100 years old in 2047. The decisions over the next decade will determine Pakistan's future. Will Pakistan rise to the challenges ahead and transform its economy? Or will Pakistan continue with the mixed record of reform implementation, failing to address the key constraints to growth, while another generation of Pakistanis sees limited welfare improvements? This overview report together with the seven policy notes that were prepared in parallel provides a vision of the type of economy that Pakistan could have by 2047. The report illustrates the type of changes that are possible, and it discusses a limited number of priority reforms that will be necessary to address the most pressing constraints to accelerating and sustaining growth.
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title Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future
title_short Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future
title_full Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future
title_fullStr Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future
title_full_unstemmed Pakistan at 100 : Shaping the Future
title_sort pakistan at 100 : shaping the future
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