An Analysis of Public Expenditure on Education in Pakistan

Fazal Husain (), Muhammad Ali Qasim and Khalid Hameed Sheikh
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Muhammad Ali Qasim: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.
Khalid Hameed Sheikh: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2003, vol. 42, issue 4, 771-780

Abstract: Achieving economic growth is an important goal of any country. However, in recent years it has increasingly been realised that economic growth is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for human development. Pakistan provides a good example of a country which has historically enjoyed a respectable GDP growth rate and yet failed to translate this positive development into a satisfactory level of human development. Since its independence in 1947, Pakistan’s development policies have focused primarily on realising high economic growth and only incidentally on the task of providing social necessities. Such a process has given rise to a structure of production and distribution which has been only indirectly responsive to social goals. However, there is now a growing realisation that we could have done much better had we stressed human resource investments relatively more.

Date: 2003
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