Recent Industrial Development in Pakistan: Structural Patterns and Problem AreasWilfried Lütkenhorst

ASIEN – Nr. 18 (1986) pp. 29–55

Pakistan has throughout its history been an aid-dependent country. Inter alia due to external political events (Afghanistan conflict) and the resulting front country status of Pakistan, even larger amounts of foreign aid than originally requested have recently been committed to the country by the World Bank led Aid-to-Pakistan Consortium. Hence it does not seem unlikely that the Government’s objective will materialize to have 80% of its roughly US $ 10 bn foreign financing requirements under the Sixth Five-Year Plan (1983-88) provided by the Consortium. In the years 1983-85 net foreign aid has financed already 22% of Pakistan’s public sector development outlays.