NEGLECTED SECTORS OF PAKISTAN’S ECONOMY

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyse the poor performance of Pakistan’s social sectors in the historical perspective focusing on the Musharraf era as well as two subsequent democratic regimes. Economic development of Pakistan did not improve social sectors, which remained neglected all the time. It could not get attention from any type of government. Growth and investment for social sectors was recorded at lowest level in the economic history of Pakistan. In this research, it is also discussed that according to Human Development Report, the social sectors of Pakistan are well-being than earlier but it is far behind from its neighboring states as well as other South Asian states. Many policies were only adopted for the improvement of education and health sectors but not implemented absolutely. Multidimensional poverty is one of the major problems in Pakistan. Many surveys and reports were presented for showing the picture of poverty in Pakistan but not any government turn to its attention toward this problem. Pakistan failed to achieve MDGs and adopted SDGs without focusing on the facts which were the cause of the failure to accomplish MDGs. The GDP growth rates are high or low expenditures on these sectors almost appeared same.