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Input-Output (1-0) tables of Pakistan's economy for the year
1975-76 were published by the Pakistan Institute of Development
Economics (PIDE) in 1983. They delineated the structure of production of
118 industries together with the disposition of their output by five
categories of final demand: consumption expenditures; gross fixed
capital formation; changes in stocks; exports; and re-exports. Import
have been shown to be absorbed as intermediate inputs as well as
destined for final consumption. The present author presented an
analytical paper [3], based on the said data-base, in which despite the
useful industrial details captured, the predominant agrarian nature of
Pakistan's economy was emphasized. Agricultural sector's contribution to
the total gross domestic product (CDP) at factor cost amounted to 22.1
percent. Although the 1-0 tables identified some 81 manufacturing
industries - both large-scale and small-scale - there were only seven
industries whose contribution to the total CDP was of any significance.
The manufacturing sector, as a whole, contributed only about 11.7
percent of the total CDP. Service industries, construction and the like
still account for the rest of the CDP.

Input-Output tables provide a detailed accounting of the goods
and services that individual industries buy from and sell to each other,
and , therefore, constitute a useful medium for an analysis of the
interdependent nature of the various sectors of an economy. The PIDE's
release of input-output (I-D) tables of Pakistan's economy for the year
1975 -76 [9] is an important contribution in this respect. An 'open'
output determination of model of the Leontief type is applied to the
said data base to delineate the structural interdependence of Pakistan's
economy. Some salient features of the economy such as sectoral
distribution of the value added, cost composition of the value of
sectoral outputs, output and income multipliers are discussed in Section
l. The notion of interdependence arising through technological
interconnections between various sectors implies structural linkages -
both "backward" and "forward". Quantification of these linkages provides
an effective way of identifying "key sectors" of the economy. Section II
discusses the methodology used and the empirical results obtained
pertaining to key sectors of the Pakistan's economy. Some concluding
remarks are offered in Section Ill.

ch. 1. Leaving home -- ch. 2. Cheap meat for the global market -- ch. 3. Globally mobile professionals -- ch. 4. Assimilation of second-generation immigrants -- ch. 5. Maligned migrants : Muslims in the United States and Western Europe -- ch. 6. How migration impacts societies.

A review of Aziz Ansari and Erik Klinenberg's Modern Romance.

Lecture delivered at the Royal central Asian society, London, Feb. 28, 1951.

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