Whiledemand estimates are used in policy making in a number of areas, there has not been a substantialliterature on demandpatterns and responsesin Pakistan. We present estimates for thirteen classesof goods, basedon a completedemand system, a modification of the Unear Expenditure...

This paper evaluates consequences of taxation policy changes in· terms of effects on government revenue, households and production. It concentrates on derivation and analysis of effective taxes. The revised economy-wide input-output table prepared at the Pakistan Institute of Development...

Allama Iqbal stressed the need for khudi in terms of national identity and focus on self-reliance, without which there would have been no chance to break colonial bounds. The message still resonates today, in a period of economic crisis and lack of national agreement on tax reforms....

The econometric analysis of demand in Pakistan has, until recently, been a relatively neglected field of analysis. Much of the earlier work, re~ewed in Ali (1985), consists of linear Engel curves based on grouped data published by the Bureau of Statistics. Ahmad, Leung and Stern (1984), and...

A consistent set of economy-wide shadow prices for Pakistan is presented, based on input-utput flows for the mid-1970s. This provides broad parameters for policy at the sectoral level, with indications as to which sectors should be encouraged under alternative assumptions concerning the...