Media Type

Talk

Publication Date

11-23-2010

Description

Despite spectacular achievements on the economic front: achieving growth rate of 6 percent annually for over four decades, tripling its per capita income and drastically declining the incidence of poverty from almost 50 percent of the population to less than 20 percent by the late eighties although it has resurged to 34 percent by the late nineties. However, we are still a poor and underdeveloped country and the benefits of this progress have not been shared universally.

Notes

Merged remarks on private sector and economic growth from a convocation address at the Institute of Business Management, Bahauddin Zakariya University (2003), a Get Together address (2005), and a Management Association of Pakistan address (2010). Publication date is estimated. IH0374

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