Private Industrial Investment in Pakistan
1960-1970

This book examines the behaviour of private industrial investment in Pakistan in the 1960s.

Rashid Amjad (Author)

9780521053617, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 December 2007

276 pages
21 x 13.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.359 kg

This book examines the behaviour of private industrial investment in Pakistan in the 1960s, in the first half of which it rose at an unprecedented rate, followed by sharp decline, and then stagnation for the rest of the period. The approach adopted is institutional and empirical. The developments studied appeared to be very much the product of the institutional setting of Pakistan, which was different from that of most advanced countries but possibly riot so dissimilar from that in many other developing countries.

List of tables
List of figures
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: a review of development policies 1947–70
Part I. The Institutional Setting: 1. Macro and theoretical framework
2. The corporate environment
Part II. Profitability in the Manufacturing Sector: 3. A time series analysis of profitability
4. Factors influencing profitability at the industry level
Part III. Factors Influencing Investment Behaviour: 5. Investment behaviour at the firm level
6. Investment behaviour of monopoly houses
7. Investment behaviour at the industry level
8. Conclusions: an interpretation of the behaviour of private industrial investment in the sixties
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Development economics & emerging economies [KCM]