Author Affiliation

Additional Finance Secretary, Government of Sind, Karachi

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Employment Strategy, Pakistan Labour Force, Rural Development

Disciplines

Business | Economics

Abstract

Economic development policies pursued during the sixties have glaringly failed to provide sufficient employment for the exploding labour force of Pakistan. Employment creation has only recently been recognised as a major development problem along with income distribution and has consequently become the main focus of attention for the policy makers and planners. The purpose of this paper is to inquire how far the assumption that unemployment and under-utilisation of labour would gradually disappear with economic growth is borne out by the evidence available for the third and fourth plan periods and to quantify, as far as possible, the employment created during this period.

Note

A paper presented at the Pakistan Economic Conference 1975. Views expressed are personal and do not represent the views of the Government of Sind. IH0488

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