Pakistan’s Growth Spurts and Reversals: A Historical Perspective
Keywords:
Pakistan, macroeconomic management, foreign exchange, IMFAbstract
This paper takes a historical perspective to search for the major causes of Pakistan’s stop-go growth cycles and come to the conclusion that, to varying degrees, the foreign exchange constraint provides a major explanation for these cycles of irregular economic growth in the country, particularly since the 1990s.
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