Years ago Economic Survey has become a significant article. Many important sectors of the economy like growth, investment, manufacturing; fiscal development, inflation, debt, capital markets, mining, agriculture, services, money and credit have been covered by it. Further, poverty, performance of health and education, transport and communication, employment etc are highlighted. It also evaluates the issues of environment, contingent liabilities, tax expenditures, in addition to economic and social indicators.

Abdul Hafeez Sheikh Presenting Economic Survey of Pakistan 2009-10

Highlights from Economic Survey 2009-10:

• Gross domestic product (GDP) was at 4.1 percent as compared with 1.1 percent of the prior economic year.
• Inflation is decreased from 22% but still in double digits i.e. 11.5%.
• Current account deficit is expected to decline during the outgoing fiscal year. Decline is expected below 3% of Gross Domestic Product.
• External current account deficit was contained to 5.6 % of GDP (US dollars 9.3 billion) in fiscal 2008-09, from a high of 8.3 % of GDP in 2007-08 (US dollars 13.9 billion)
• Economic growth in 2009-10 is 4.1% which is higher than the targeted growth 3.3%t.
• The fiscal deficit was slashed to 5.2 % of GDP in financial year 2008-09, from 7.6 % of GDP in 2007-08, a fiscal adjustment of 2.4 % of GDP.
• Foreign Exchange Reserves have been rebuilt to nearly dollars 16 billion, from their low of under dollar 6 billion in October 2008.
• International credit rating agencies upgraded Pakistan from CCC plus to B Minus by S&P, while Moody’s revised its outlook to Stable.
• Manufacturing Sector posted a positive growth of 5.2 % during the current fiscal year.
• 44 % of population has access to sanitation, while 65 % to clean water.
• Pakistan has become the largest user of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the world, as per the statistics issued by International Association of National Gas Vehicles on CNG. Presently, 3105 CNG stations are operating in the country and 2.4 million vehicles are using CNG as fuel.
• Literacy Rate has improved from 56% to 57%. Literacy rate in Punjab is (59 %), Sindh, (59%), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (50%) and Balochistan at (45%).
• Social protection measures were expanded from around Rs 8 billion two years ago to around Rs 80 billion this year.

Economic survey of Pakistan is available for download. You can download it according to its various chapters from the table below; in PDF Format. Click on the chapters to download them.

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CHAPTER NAME		CHAPTER AUTHOR
	State of the Economy	Sakib Sherani (P.Eco. Adviser)
	Growth and Investment	Sakib Sherani
	Agriculture	Omer Farooq
	Manufacturing	Habib-ur-Rehman
	Public Finance	Sakib Sherani, Nazia Gul
	Monetary Sector	Nazia Gul
	Inflation	Sakib Sherani, Ahmed Khan
	Balance of Payments	Mushtaq Ali Hub
	Public Debt	Syed Jaffer Askari
	Poverty	Muhammad Asmal
	Education	Omer Farooq
	Health & Nutrition	Ahmed Khan
	Capital Markets	Nausheen Saba Nizami
	Energy	Mushtaq Ali Hub
	Transport and Communications	Habib-ur-Rehman
	Environment	Natiq Hussain Naqvi
	Population, Labor Force and Employment	Nausheen Saba Nizami
	Contingent Liabilities	Mehwish Ashraf

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