Discussions about the role of small enterprise in economic development tend to remain inconclusive partly because of the difficulty of assessing the relative importance of economic and non-economic objectives and partly because of the dearth of factual information on which to base an economic...

Economic planning is of such recent origin in Pakistan that. up to now. it has necessarily been ad hoc in character. The problems pf the present and immediate future have always appeared so pressing to the planners that. aside from hopeful compound-interest projections to the next generation and...

Development planning in Pakistan aims at reaching the stage of self generating growth "within a measurable period of time"l. The perspective oflong-term growth outlined in the Second Five Year Plan envisages a quadrupling of national income and the achievement of a six-per-cent per annum growth...

The publication by the Planning Commission of a Mid-Plan Review! of progress in the first two years of the Second Five Year Plan (1960-65) gives interested observers a unique opportunity to reassess their thinking about economic development in Pakistan. Despite enormous difficulties because of...

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“What are the prospects of the Philippine economy after the presidential election of 2004?” Before speculating on this question, the paper discusses four major problems of the economy that the new president will face after the elections. These are (a) the weak long-term performance; (b) the...

This paper examines the Philippines’ investment climate in its many dimensions, relating these to the performance of the economy at the national, regional, and provincial levels. The central thesis is that the economy’s slow growth over the past two decades or more can be attributed in large...

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