 A Qualitative Analysis of Pakistan’s External and Internal DebtEatzaz Ahmad ()
Lahore Journal of Economics, 2011, vol. 16, issue Special Edition, 123-157 Abstract: This paper discusses how poor debt management combined with the policies of donor agencies (particularly the IMF) have brought on the present domestic and foreign debt crises. The paper presents a qualitative account of the debt in Pakistan and then analyzes the debt data using various debt burden indicators. After the analysis of the economic and social costs of debt overhang in Pakistan, it is found that net foreign resource flows to the private and public sectors tended to crowd out private and public savings respectively and that public savings is crowded out by resource flows from the private sector to the public sector. Finally, the results of the paper find that the resource allocation between development and non-development expenditure did not depend on whether government expenditure was financed by revenues or government borrowing and that more resources are directed towards deveopment activity when government expenditure is financed by foreign resource flows rather than domestice resource flows. Keywords: Debt Burden; Savings; Development Expenditure; Pakistan. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lje:journl:v:16:y:2011:i:sp:p:123-157 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Lahore Journal of Economics from Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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