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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786768103321

Autore

Sanchez Triana Ernesto

Titolo

Revitalizing industrial growth in Pakistan : trade, infrastructure, and environmental performance / / Ernesto Sanchez-Triana, Dan Biller, Ijaz Nabi, Leonard Ortolano, Ghazal Dezfuli, Javaid Afzal, and Santiago Enriquez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , 2014

ISBN

1-4648-0029-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Collana

Directions in Development

Disciplina

338.95491

Soggetti

Industrialization - Pakistan

Economic development - Pakistan

Infrastructure (Economics) - Pakistan

Sustainable development - Pakistan

Pakistan Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pakistan's industrial vision -- The importance of manufacturing -- Spatial transformation -- Skills development -- Challenges in trade -- Infrastructure modernization -- Greening Pakistan's industry -- Institutions for sustainable industrialization.

Sommario/riassunto

Pakistan's development efforts are guided by its 2011 Framework for Economic Growth, which identifies actions needed to create a prosperous, industrialized Pakistan through rapid and sustainable development. Industrialization has the potential to drive Pakistan's economic growth and contribute significantly to meeting both economic and human development goals in Pakistan. Expansions of industrialization activities, whether in highly developed or developing countries, can be stimuli for intense debate about such projects' benefits and costs to the region in which they are to be located, to the