Course Outline
- Pakistan’s economy recurring cycles of high and low economic growth since independence in 1947 and the measure that need to take to ensure a sustained growth in the future.
- The benefit from foreign direct investment for moving Pakistan’s economy forward.
- The existing taxation system in Pakistan, its weaknesses and the key elements of the requisite reform package for raising the tax GDP ratio to a desired level.
- Benefit from the huge and growing foreign remittance.
- Speeding up its development by increasing exports in general as well as to the countries in our neighborhood and the region.
- The origin and the nature of the crisis in the energy sector and the possible strategies to overcome it.
- The socio-economic and political dimension of the economy today, the challenges it faces and the requisite policies for its revival / growth.
Reference Books
- 50 Years of Pakistan Economy, State Bank of Pakistan 2006.
- Amjad, Rashid and Burki, Javed. Pakistan: Moving the Economy Forward. Lahore School of Economics.
- Aslam, Chaudhary M. and Eatzaz A. (2004). Globalization: WTO and Economic Reforms in Pakistan, Feroz Sons, Lahore Pakistan
- Aslam, Chaudhry M. and Hameed, Abdul (1999). Human Resource Development and Management in Pakistan, Feroz Sons, Lahore, Pakistan
- Hussain, Ishrat. (1999). Pakistan: Economy of an Elitist State
- Ministry of Finance (Government of Pakistan) Economic Survey
- State Bank of Pakistan Annual and Quarterly Reports
- Troubled Times in the Age of Extremes published by Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. 2006
- Zaidi, S. Akbar. Issues in Pakistan’s Economy. (Latest eds.).