Social Versus Private Profitability in Pakistan's Export of Manufactures

Khalid Ikram
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Khalid Ikram: Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad

The Pakistan Development Review, 1973, vol. 12, issue 2, 156-167

Abstract: A recurrent theme in much of the writing on development is that the prospects for the export of agricultural products from underdeveloped countries are bleak, and that these countries sfioufd, therefore, concentrate on expandihg their exports of manufactures. Pakistan, too, has not been immune to such thinking, and over the years the authorities have attempted to stimulate industri£ ei(0rts through a wide array of incentive schemes. On the one hand meSe too t e form of discouraging agricultural exports by the imposition of export taxes and by compelling the sale of these products at the official-and overvalued exchange rate.

Date: 1973
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