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...

This paper shows that inequality in consumption expenditure in Pakistan improved slightly between 1992/93 and 2004/05, and that the extent of inequality in food consumption has remained substantially lower than in nonfood consumption. An important result is that household expenditure on...

The manufacturing sector of Pakistan has at times played the role of the leading sector of the economy. The successful experience of planned growth in the 1960s owes much to the special attention paid to the growth of manufacturing sector. Policies like the export bonus scheme, tax-holidays,...