IMF Staff Country Reports

Pakistan: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

Publication Date:

December 20, 2004

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper presents cross-country regression results that identify investment in physical capital and improvements in institutional quality as having the largest pay-off in terms of increased growth. The paper employs three approaches to forecast inflation in Pakistan. A leading indicator model outperforms a univariate autoregressive moving average model as well as a vector autoregressive model in terms of forecast quality. The paper presents three case studies of Pakistani public sector enterprises that have recently witnessed strong improvements in their financial performance.

Series:

Country Report No. 2004/415

Subject:

Human capital Income and capital gains taxes Inflation Labor Prices Revenue administration Taxes Value-added tax