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    Boosting Pakistan’s Export Competitiveness: Private Sector Perspectives

    Institute, Sustainable Development Policy | March 2018
    Abstract
    Global and regional trade integration offers Pakistan tremendous potential in driving and sustaining growth and poverty reduction. Despite this potential, trade has not been effectively leveraged to catalyse growth in Pakistan in recent years. Trends in relative trade and competitiveness have been worrying, with export earnings declining 20 percent over the period FY2011-2017 and market share contracting by 1.45 percent annually. Understanding the constraints on trade and competitiveness from the perspective of the private sector engaged in export activities is critical to developing and implementing effective trade policy. To support the Government of Pakistan in the preparation of its new Strategic Trade Policy Framework (2018-23), the World Bank Group conducted a series of private sector stakeholder consultations with current, past and potential Pakistani exporters in the manufacturing, agro processing, and services sectors. A total of 254 private sector representatives participated in four separate events organized in different provinces between September and November 2017. This note summarizes the main concerns expressed by the private sector during these consultations. The note’s main objective is to contribute to a fruitful private-public dialogue which can ultimately lend inputs for trade policy. The role of the World Bank Group in this respect is to bring together the private sector and the public sector, so that the constraints that the former face are presented to the latter. As such, the challenges to be summarized here are those identified by the key firms present during the private sector engagement meetings, during the fourth quarter of 2017, and not by the World Bank Group.
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    Institute, Sustainable Development Policy. 2018. Boosting Pakistan’s Export Competitiveness: Private Sector Perspectives. © Sustainable Development Policy Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9421.
    Keywords
    Regionalism
    Regional Economy
    Regional Trading Arrangements
    Regional Trade Integration
    Regional Economic Integration
    Regional Cooperation
    Interregional Cooperation
    Trade Disputes
    Trade Barriers
    Free Trade
    Trade
    Trade Agreements
    Intraregional Trade
    Government Policy
    Regional Organization
    Regional Plans
    Economic integration
    Regional Development Bank
    Preferential tariffs
    International negotiation
    Protectionist measures
    Access to markets
    Economic agreements
    International trade law
    Regional integration
    Trade relations
    Exports
    Economic integration
    Distribution
    Economic integration
    Development Bank
    Trade policy
    Small Business
    Regional economics
    Regional planning
    Regional disparities
    Interregionalism
    Regional economic disparities
    Regional economic blocs
    Industrial arbitration
    Euro
    Inflation
    Business
    Finance
    Free trade
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