Growth is not well-planned and the country may slip into balance of payments crisis

Increased influx of job seeking rural migrants is causing informal sector to grow

Focus on short-term political gains has caused structural problems

Building and modernising infrastructure will ‘crowd in’ private investment in industries

Number has gone up on back of debt-led consumption in Pakistan

Political opportunism in absence of structural reforms leaves economy stunted.

IDBs have provided vital financing in past for giving push to industrialisation

Lack of investment means GDP growth has remained range-bound

Research shows well-integrated natural monopoly entails welfare gains

Foreign debt means short-term measures at cost of long-term economic development