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2- During 50s:
Indirect taxes were imposed, industrial activity handicapped.
Agriculture inputs remained low.
1952 establishment of Pakistan Industrial Development
Corporation .
To provide financial & technical assistance towards those
sectors where private sector was reluctant.
Industrial units of paper, jute, sugar, cotton and cement
were sent to private sector by PIDC.
1972: Role of PIDC shrunk after nationalization.
3- During 60s:
2nd 5 year plan.
Concessions to private sector in tax exemptions, reduced
wages, export bonuses, tax holidays.
161.4% increase in industrial output.
Following the advice of Harvard Group of Economists great
increase in industrial production.
4- During 1970`s:
Separation of East Pakistan.
Nationalization of 31 manufacturing units.
52 industrial concerns under PIDC also nationalized.
1972: Board of Industrial Management set up.
1973: Oil crisis increased cost of production.
Machinery and plants had gone obsolete.
5- During 1977-80:
Zia ul Haq regime.
Beg Report:
BIM & Ministry of production to be abolished.
Decrease in no. of enterprises from 69 to 24.
Sector corporations abolished.
Super Ministerial Board established.
Auqeeli Report:
No. of corporations decreased.
Not in favor of super-ministerial board.
6- During 1980s:
7- During 1990-97:
De-regularization & privatization of private sector.
1991-92 manufacturing growth rate was 8.3%.
1992-93 manufacturing growth rate was 5.6%.
Load shedding in country.
Shortage of cotton.
International recession & substitutes of cotton
affected the industry.
1993-94 there was 15.08% increase in industrial
sector.
Increase in production of cotton thread, cigarettes,
nitrogen fertilizers etc.
Concept of Public-private partnership.