The economy in Nepal grew at a slower pace in the first half of FY23. A decrease in construction activities, the lower registration of new businesses, slower credit growth to the private sector, and...
Economic momentum continued over July-December 2021 (H1 FY22) as indicators mostly signaled positive trends. With sustained improvement in community mobility and still-robust official remittance inflows, ...
This paper examines if and how deeper economic integration with high-income nations impacts industrial performance. It exploits Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 as a source of ...
Preferential trade agreements are growing in number and deepening in content by incorporating disciplines that go beyond market access. They increasingly encompass non-trade-related disciplines as diverse...
Due to low base effects and recovering domestic demand, Pakistan’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth (at factor cost) is estimated to have rebounded to 3.5 percent in FY21 from a contraction...
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) is a joint International Finance Corporation–World Bank effort to highlight the constraints, as well as the opportunities, facing the private sector...
Nepal has been hit hard by COVID-19, although the situation has improved more recently. As the outbreak became widespread in mid-2020, a nationwide lockdown was implemented from March to July in 2020, ...
This paper evaluates the impact of two export finance support schemes, the Export Finance Scheme and the Long-Term Finance Facility for Plant & Machinery on firm-level export performance in Pakistan...
Export responses to real exchange rate (RER) depreciations in Pakistan are lower than those to appreciations. This paper empirically documents this asymmetric response using macro-level data. It then...
This paper examines productivity dynamics and drivers for Pakistani firms listed in the stock exchange (publicly listed firms) over 2012-17. It relies on policy and outcome measures of integration in...
This report analyses the recent trends in Pakistani Information Technologies (IT) and InformationTechnologies enabled Services (ITeS), as well as obstacles confronted by firms. The authors assess the ...
This note discusses the role that import duties have in Pakistan’s economy, and their links with export competitiveness. Import duties play two key roles. First, they are a source of tax revenues for...
Increased international production fragmentation implies that firms at home rely on imported intermediates for production. In this context, tariff policy design needs to consider the impact downstream...
This handbook intends to be a resource for those interested in trade policy reform, in Pakistan and elsewhere. It arose from the Pakistan trade and investment policy program (PTIPP). The PTIPP was designed...