The Socioeconomic Position of Pakistan in the Third World

In: The Pakistan development review: PDR, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 347-365

Abstract

A number of social and economic indices are constructed by
utilising a total of 120 variables to compare Pakistan with 96 other
developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. These countries
are ranked on scales of these indices by using the Wroclaw Taxonomic
Method and are grouped on the basis of similarities with the help of a
clustering technique. Pakistan seems to have achieved a reasonable
degree of success in both social and economic areas but her performance
in the latter is more pronounced.