Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment
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 importance of trade costs as a barrier to servic...
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okr-10986-338802021-05-25T09:49:49Z Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment Saez, Sebastian Rizwan, Nadeem van der Marel, Erik DIGITAL ECONOMY TRADE AND INVESTMENT INTERNET ACCESS EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS HUMAN CAPITAL LABOR SKILLS LABOR MARKET INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC POLICY 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 importance of trade costs as a barrier to services growth and development in Pakistan’s domestic market and to seizing the opportunities of global trade. The report also aims to understand and examine the impact of obstacles (i.e., trade costs) confronted by firms. These obstacles increase the costs of selling services and may reduce capacity to compete both in the local market (Pakistan) as well as overseas (exports). These obstacles include direct costs generated by policy barriers that limit market entry, but can also include infrastructure deficiencies, geographical location, and institutional capacities, and/or obstacles imposed by regulatory measures. Among the latter obstacles, examples include difficulties in accessing the information necessary to operate in a market, the predictability and stability of the business environment in a market, and the quality of the decision-making process and administrative procedures of competent authorities in the domestic and export markets. The focus of the report is the trade costs confronted by IT and ITeS firms. IT and ITeS operations are the backbone to provide digital services, digital goods and depend on digital technologies, conform an integral part of the overall ecosystem. The report relies on a survey conducted on 782 IT and ITeS firms across different cities. The objective of the survey was to examine the importance of these factors for Pakistani firms and to provide advice to policymakers. To complement the survey results, the main findings were discussed in focus group structured interviews. Firms interviewed covered different services activities beyond software companies and included both exporters (534 firms) and non-exporters (248 firms), reflecting the export competitiveness as well as domestic competitiveness of Pakistan's IT services sector. The analysis aims to improve our understanding of Pakistan's IT performance and the obstacles confronted in this field. 2020-06-11T17:07:52Z 2020-06-11T17:07:52Z 2020-05 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/894921591073694322/Digital-Pakistan-Economic-Policy-for-Export-Competitiveness-A-Business-and-Trade-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33880 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows Study South Asia Pakistan |
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DIGITAL ECONOMY TRADE AND INVESTMENT INTERNET ACCESS EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS HUMAN CAPITAL LABOR SKILLS LABOR MARKET INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC POLICY |
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DIGITAL ECONOMY TRADE AND INVESTMENT INTERNET ACCESS EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS HUMAN CAPITAL LABOR SKILLS LABOR MARKET INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC POLICY Saez, Sebastian Rizwan, Nadeem van der Marel, Erik Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment |
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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
importance of trade costs as a barrier to services growth
and development in Pakistan’s domestic market and to seizing
the opportunities of global trade. The report also aims to
understand and examine the impact of obstacles (i.e., trade
costs) confronted by firms. These obstacles increase the
costs of selling services and may reduce capacity to compete
both in the local market (Pakistan) as well as overseas
(exports). These obstacles include direct costs generated by
policy barriers that limit market entry, but can also
include infrastructure deficiencies, geographical location,
and institutional capacities, and/or obstacles imposed by
regulatory measures. Among the latter obstacles, examples
include difficulties in accessing the information necessary
to operate in a market, the predictability and stability of
the business environment in a market, and the quality of the
decision-making process and administrative procedures of
competent authorities in the domestic and export markets.
The focus of the report is the trade costs confronted by IT
and ITeS firms. IT and ITeS operations are the backbone to
provide digital services, digital goods and depend on
digital technologies, conform an integral part of the
overall ecosystem. The report relies on a survey conducted
on 782 IT and ITeS firms across different cities. The
objective of the survey was to examine the importance of
these factors for Pakistani firms and to provide advice to
policymakers. To complement the survey results, the main
findings were discussed in focus group structured
interviews. Firms interviewed covered different services
activities beyond software companies and included both
exporters (534 firms) and non-exporters (248 firms),
reflecting the export competitiveness as well as domestic
competitiveness of Pakistan's IT services sector. The
analysis aims to improve our understanding of
Pakistan's IT performance and the obstacles confronted
in this field. |
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Saez, Sebastian Rizwan, Nadeem van der Marel, Erik |
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Saez, Sebastian Rizwan, Nadeem van der Marel, Erik |
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Saez, Sebastian |
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Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment |
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Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment |
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Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment |
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Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment |
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Digital Pakistan : A Business and Trade Assessment |
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digital pakistan : a business and trade assessment |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2020 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/894921591073694322/Digital-Pakistan-Economic-Policy-for-Export-Competitiveness-A-Business-and-Trade-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33880 |
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