Why Doesn’t Industry Grow? Structural Barriers and Policy Failures

Table of Contents

• Protection Without Competition: Rethinking Industrial Strategy in Pakistan 
  by Nadeem Javaid (SI)
• Trade, Exports, and Integration: Pathways to Sustainable Economic Growth 
  by Manzoor Ahmad
• How Does State Capacity Affect Industrial Performance in Pakistan? 
  by Vaqar Ahmed
• Does Pakistan’s Economy Offer a Level Playing Field? 
  by Ali Salman
• Pakistan’s Regulatory Quagmire: An Analysis of the World Bank’s B-READY Assessment 
  by Mukarram Jah Ansari
• Industrial Policy at a Crossroads 
  by Ehsan Malik
• The Industrial Imperative in Pakistan: Choosing Between a ‘Trading Shop’ and a ‘Global Factory’ 
  by Shujaat Farooq
• Why Pakistani Industry Does Not Upgrade: Lessons from the Firm-Level Evidence 
  by Waqar Wadho
• Gresham’s Law of Scholarship and the Political Economy of R&D in Pakistan 
  by Ikram Ullah & Iftikhar Ahmad
• Productivity: The Missing Link in Pakistan’s Export Ambitions 
  by Omer Siddique
• When Revenuecracy Out-Taxes Export Growth 
  by Ikramul Haq
• The Energy Trap: How Pricing, Reliability, and Volatility Are Stalling Industrial Expansion 
  by Namra Saleem
• Energy Economy Nexus for Industrialization in the Age of Geopolitical Crisis 
  by Khalid Waleed
• Why Does Our Trade Not Grow? How Pakistan and Vietnam Diverged in Participation in Global Value Chains 
  by Aadil Nakhoda
• Tax Expenditures in Pakistan: Business Facilitation to Fiscal Burden 
  by Alam Khan and Mahmood Khalid
• Property Rights and Land Titling: Unlocking the Credit Pipeline for Industrial Growth in Pakistan 
  by Azwar Muhammad Aslam
• Digital Exports, Analog Policies: Barriers to Pakistan’s Services Trade and Global Integration 
  by Asif Javed
• Exploring the untapped potential of the dairy sector to enhance exports 
  by Muhammad Mohsin Kiani
• Pakistan’s Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth: Towards Export-Led Production 
  by Bilal Aftab
• Talent, Skills, and Competitiveness: Where Pakistan Stands in GTCI 2025 
  by Henna Ahsan
• A Dual Migration Strategy for Pakistan 
  by Muhammad Jehangir Khan and Muhammad Ajmal Khan
• Industrial Policy in Pakistan 
  by Tuaha Adil