he Nature and Extent of Growth in the Zia’s Years 1977-1988

➢The phenomenal overall  economic performance during Zia’s era was best.
➢According to World Development Report 1990, during 1980—88 Pakistan's GDP growth
rate of 6.5 per cent was exceeded only by that of Korea, China and Hong Kong.
➢The growth of real wages in Pakistani manufacturing during 1980—88 was just about
the fastest in the world—at 6.2 per cent a year surpassed only by Thailand (7.0%)
and equaled only by Singapore.
➢For the period 1978-86 GDP growth averaged 7 per cent consistency per annum.
➢According to the World Bank, manufacturing GDP grew at an annual average rate of
9.5 per cent between 1977 and 1986.
➢The total average growth in this period was a very impressive 9.6 per cent, with
the first half of the Zia era showing an even higher rate of 12.8 per cent.' In
both the Fifth and Sixth Five-year Plans (1978—83 and 1983—8), actual growth rates
exceeded the targets of 12 per cent and 9 per cent.