If PPP does well in the May elections, it will be largely because of the success of Benazir Income Support Programme.

Those who take office now will have to make a number of public policy choices to pull country back from edge of abyss.

Financial flows originating in the diaspora communities will become increasingly important.

About a 0.3 percentage point increase in national income could be attributed to remittances from the United States.

The third-largest Pakistani diaspora in North America is most likely to have deepest impact on its original homeland.

Migration to the Middle East by millions of Pakistanis produced mixed results, some positive and some negative.

Millions have also left the country and gone abroad, creating large communities of Pakistanis in 3 geographic areas.

The rate of increase in Pakistan’s urban population was more rapid than the rest of the developing world.

Economy will inevitably increase at rate of 3 to 4 per cent a year, as it has done since the arrival of democracy.

Education sector suffered not only because of low funding but also because of wilful politicisation of institutions.