Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)

Department of Economics
ECON-400 (Spring 2021)
Assignment-1
World Development Indicators (Comparative Data Analysis)
Dear Students!
World Development Indicators inform about the performance of countries over a wide range of
variables. This gives an excellent opportunity to view and analyze the comparative performance
of countries for each indicator. This assignment is meant to introduce you to the performance of
Pakistan on one variable assigned to you (list available at the end). There is a zip file that carries
the data of all variables (allocated to students) in separate MS Excel files for your convenience.
The assignment has two parts it will be submitted in MS word file format.
The first part of the assignment
 Select a group of any FIVE countries/regions from your assigned indicator file.
 Put the data (averages) of Pakistan and your chosen countries/regions into a table in the
following format to have a broad overview. (10 marks)
Pakista Country-1 Country-2 Country-3 Country-4 Country-5
n
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
 Give reasons for choosing particular group of countries/regions for analysis. Explain how
the comparison that you did help us understand Pakistan’s performance in a better way
for the variable assigned to you. (10 marks)
The second part of the assignment
 Analyze the performance of Pakistan vis-à-vis the other five countries for your assigned
indicator over the years (not just averages). (30 marks)

Due Date of Assignment: 10th April 2021

Sr# ID Name Name of the Excel file of indicator Assigned to you
access to clean fuels & technologies for cooking (% of
1  22-10377 Abbas, Ibrahim   population)
2  20-10098 Abbas, Mohammad Zain  access to electricity (% of population)
3  22-10186 Ahmad, Hamza   ATMs (per 100,000 adults)
4  22-10626 Ahmad, Noman   borrowers from commercial banks (per 1000 adults)
5  21-10759 Ali, Shahzaib   commercial bank branches (per 100,000 adults)
6  221434987 Amin, Usama Bin  crude birth rate
7  22-11377 Asad, Hafiz Muhammad  crude death rate
8  221372279 Fatima, Kaneez   current health expenditure (% of gdp)
9  21-10315 Hashmi, Abdullah Bin Asim  depositors with commercial banks (per 1000 adults)
10  22-10573 Javed, Iruj   domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of gdp)
11  21-10954 Kermani, Syed Muzamil  electricity production from oil,gas & coal (% of total)
employment in agriculture sector (% of total
12  20-10689 Khalid, Momin   employment)
13  22-10453 Khalil, Maahnoor   employment in industry (% of total employment)
14  22-10129 Khalil, Noor ul ain  employment in services (% of total employment )
15  21-11338 Khan, Muhammad   export of G&S (% of gdp)
16  22-10620 Khan, Shehzad   fdi, net inflows (% of gdp)
17  22-10438 MAHMOOD, DANIA   fdi, net outflows (% of gdp)
18  221435078 Mazari, Muhammad Ghazanfar   female labor force participation rate
Nadeem, Muhammad Usama
19  221434626 Ali  gdp growth (annual %)
20  221516941 Naveed, Mahrukh   gross capital formation (annual % growth)
21  22-10463 Nazeef, Laiba   gross saving (% of gdp)
22  21-11028 Pervaiz, Israr   ict service exports (bop, current US$)
23  20-10061 Polous, Eliya   imports of G&S (% of gdp)
24  22-10124 RAZA BOKHARI, SYEDA FATIMA   infant mortality rate
25  221434966 Rafiq, Muhammad   inflation, gdp deflator (annual %)
26  221438503 SHAH, MUHAMMAD AFAQ ALI   international tourism, expenditure (current US$)
27  22-11346 Saeed, Mahrukh   international tourism, receipts (current US$)
28  221438816 Salman, Wajeeha   male labor force participation rate
people using at least basic drinking water services (% of
29  22-11316 Samuel, Simon   population)
30  22-10566 Shafiq, Asma   personal remittances received (% of gdp)
31  21-10108 Shahid, Bilal   population ages 0-14 (% of total population)
32  20-11382 Tariq, Shahzaib Bin  population ages 15-64 (% of total population)
33  21-10710 Ullah, Naseeb   population growth (annual %)
34  22-10252 Wattoo, Muhammad Nomaan  primary education, pupils
35  22-10934 Younas, Dilawaiz   total labor force participation rate
36  21-10363 Zulfiqar, Sukaina   total unemployment (% of total labor force)