Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
The Government of Pakistan's (GoP's) 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 percent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing business, improve the investment c...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17966058/greening-growth-pakistan-through-transport-sector-reforms-strategic-environmental-poverty-social-assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15798 |
| Summary: | The Government of Pakistan's
(GoP's) 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to
place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7
percent per year through measures to reduce the cost of
doing business, improve the investment climate, and
strengthen institutions. Trade and transport reforms are
central to achieve the Framework's goals. The transport
sector constitutes 10 percent of Pakistan's Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) and provides 6 percent of the
employment in the country. The sector plays an important
role in linking other sectors in the economy, contributes to
both domestic and international trade, and helps facilitate
the spatial transformation occurring in Pakistan. The
present patterns in transport and trade logistics generate
inefficiencies that are costing Pakistan's economy
roughly 4-6 percent of GDP per year, which is a major
constraint on the aspirations set out in the Framework. This
report examines the poverty, social, and environmental
aspects associated with trade and transport sector reforms
aimed at increasing the freight transport sector's
productivity to meet the Framework's goals. This report
is organized as follows. Chapter 1 provides the objectives
and methodology of this work. Chapter 2 discusses the sector
status and the trade and transport policy reforms. Chapter 3
establishes the priority issues associated with freight
transport reform. Chapters 4 and 5 focused on the social and
environmental aspects of the reform, respectively. And
chapters 6 and 7 conclude the report by discussing policy
options to promote environmentally and socially sustainable
trade and transport and an agenda to advance environmentally
and socially sustainable trade and transport reforms in Pakistan. |
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