An evaluation of the performance of government of Pakistan

We used the rationale of Human Development Index to rank six regimes of Pakistan from 1979 to 2004 by designing a new index termed as Regime Performance Index (RPI). Our estimations are performed after converting all the growth rates of 13 selected socioeconomic indicators into standardised values. Rankings of the six regimes (Zia ul Haq, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf) under RPI show that Nawaz Sharif's first era was relatively the best performance era in Pakistan to address social issues, followed by the Zia era and Benazir Bhutto's first era. Nawaz Sharif's second era is placed at the bottom of the rankings. (Pak Development Rev/GIGA)