Accession Number:

ADA528525

Title:

Constraints on Pakistan's Industrial Development: A Test of the Infrastructural Bottleneck Hypothesis

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Looney, Robert E.
• Frederiksen, P. C.

Report Date:

1995-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

This paper examines the infrastructural investment bottleneck hypothesis for Pakistan have shortages in infrastructure investment constrained manufacturing output in Pakistan, as recently suggested by the World Bank Using Granger causality techniques, we find evidence that the hypothesis does hold true for Pakistan, although the general pattern between public sector investment and manufacturing output is one of little coordination between the two sectors.

Descriptors:

• *INDUSTRIES
• *MANUFACTURING
• *INFRASTRUCTURE
• *PAKISTAN
• GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN)
• HYPOTHESES
• REPRINTS
• INVESTMENTS
• DEVELOPING NATIONS
• OUTPUT

Subject Categories:

• Economics and Cost Analysis
• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE