This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Pakistan looks at the worrisome trend of declining growth from a … growth-accounting point of view. The paper provides considerable evidence that Pakistan’s striking “social gap” in education … a continuation of prudent fiscal policies in Pakistan that would reduce public debt to more sustainable levels …

. The paper employs three approaches to forecast inflation in Pakistan. A leading indicator model outperforms a univariate …

This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) provides a review of Pakistan’s data dissemination …

seeking to minimize the distortionary costs of taxation, using Pakistan and Sri Lankan data for 1956-95 and 1964 …-97, respectively. The empirical results indicate that Pakistan’s fiscal behavior is consistent with tax smoothing, but not Sri Lanka …

Pakistan undertook major financial sector reforms starting in the late 1980s. The effects of these reforms on the …

This paper presents three empirical approaches to forecasting inflation in Pakistan. The preferred approach is a … parameter instability on account of fundamental changes in Pakistan''s economic system by restricting our sample to more recent …

Report for Pakistan. The JSA identified some important gaps in the poverty reduction strategy for Pakistan. These include a …

The distribution of poor population in Pakistan suggests that almost 75 percent of the poor are clustered around the … for Pakistan’s economy both on domestic and external fronts …

The analysis in this paper suggests that the large fiscal deficits that Pakistan has experienced over most of the … from Pakistan, as well as on foreign currency holdings of domestic residents, may have limited the potential for collecting …