Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment

The Government of Pakistan's (GoP's) 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 percent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing business, improve the investment c...

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Main Authors: Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto, Afzal, Javaid, Biller, Dan, Malik, Sohail
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Language:English
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Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
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spelling okr-10986-157982021-04-23T14:03:22Z Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto Afzal, Javaid Biller, Dan Malik, Sohail AIR AIR POLLUTION CLIMATE CHANGE FREIGHT FREIGHT TRANSPORT HABITAT FRAGMENTATION MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT NOISE NOISE POLLUTION RESETTLEMENT ROAD ROAD SAFETY TRANSPORT TRANSPORT POLICY TRANSPORT POLICY REFORMS TRANSPORT SECTOR TRANSPORTATION TRUCKS TRUE URBAN SPRAWL The Government of Pakistan's (GoP's) 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 percent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing business, improve the investment climate, and strengthen institutions. Trade and transport reforms are central to achieve the Framework's goals. The transport sector constitutes 10 percent of Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides 6 percent of the employment in the country. The sector plays an important role in linking other sectors in the economy, contributes to both domestic and international trade, and helps facilitate the spatial transformation occurring in Pakistan. The present patterns in transport and trade logistics generate inefficiencies that are costing Pakistan's economy roughly 4-6 percent of GDP per year, which is a major constraint on the aspirations set out in the Framework. This report examines the poverty, social, and environmental aspects associated with trade and transport sector reforms aimed at increasing the freight transport sector's productivity to meet the Framework's goals. This report is organized as follows. Chapter 1 provides the objectives and methodology of this work. Chapter 2 discusses the sector status and the trade and transport policy reforms. Chapter 3 establishes the priority issues associated with freight transport reform. Chapters 4 and 5 focused on the social and environmental aspects of the reform, respectively. And chapters 6 and 7 conclude the report by discussing policy options to promote environmentally and socially sustainable trade and transport and an agenda to advance environmentally and socially sustainable trade and transport reforms in Pakistan. 2013-09-24T21:37:04Z 2013-09-24T21:37:04Z 2013 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17966058/greening-growth-pakistan-through-transport-sector-reforms-strategic-environmental-poverty-social-assessment 978-0-8213-9929-3 10.1596/978-0-8213-9929-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15798 English en_US Directions in Development--Infrastructure; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research South Asia Pakistan
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topic AIR
AIR POLLUTION
CLIMATE CHANGE
FREIGHT
FREIGHT TRANSPORT
HABITAT FRAGMENTATION
MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT
NOISE
NOISE POLLUTION
RESETTLEMENT
ROAD
ROAD SAFETY
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT POLICY
TRANSPORT POLICY REFORMS
TRANSPORT SECTOR
TRANSPORTATION
TRUCKS
TRUE
URBAN SPRAWL
spellingShingle AIR
AIR POLLUTION
CLIMATE CHANGE
FREIGHT
FREIGHT TRANSPORT
HABITAT FRAGMENTATION
MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT
NOISE
NOISE POLLUTION
RESETTLEMENT
ROAD
ROAD SAFETY
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT POLICY
TRANSPORT POLICY REFORMS
TRANSPORT SECTOR
TRANSPORTATION
TRUCKS
TRUE
URBAN SPRAWL
Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto
Afzal, Javaid
Biller, Dan
Malik, Sohail
Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
geographic_facet South Asia
Pakistan
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description The Government of Pakistan's (GoP's) 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 percent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing business, improve the investment climate, and strengthen institutions. Trade and transport reforms are central to achieve the Framework's goals. The transport sector constitutes 10 percent of Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides 6 percent of the employment in the country. The sector plays an important role in linking other sectors in the economy, contributes to both domestic and international trade, and helps facilitate the spatial transformation occurring in Pakistan. The present patterns in transport and trade logistics generate inefficiencies that are costing Pakistan's economy roughly 4-6 percent of GDP per year, which is a major constraint on the aspirations set out in the Framework. This report examines the poverty, social, and environmental aspects associated with trade and transport sector reforms aimed at increasing the freight transport sector's productivity to meet the Framework's goals. This report is organized as follows. Chapter 1 provides the objectives and methodology of this work. Chapter 2 discusses the sector status and the trade and transport policy reforms. Chapter 3 establishes the priority issues associated with freight transport reform. Chapters 4 and 5 focused on the social and environmental aspects of the reform, respectively. And chapters 6 and 7 conclude the report by discussing policy options to promote environmentally and socially sustainable trade and transport and an agenda to advance environmentally and socially sustainable trade and transport reforms in Pakistan.
format Publications & Research :: Publication
author Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto
Afzal, Javaid
Biller, Dan
Malik, Sohail
author_facet Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto
Afzal, Javaid
Biller, Dan
Malik, Sohail
author_sort Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto
title Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
title_short Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
title_full Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
title_fullStr Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
title_full_unstemmed Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
title_sort greening growth in pakistan through transport sector reforms : strategic environmental, poverty, and social assessment
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17966058/greening-growth-pakistan-through-transport-sector-reforms-strategic-environmental-poverty-social-assessment
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