Open AccessProblems of Interregional and Intersectoral Allocation: The Case of Pakistan
Author(s) -
Arthur MacEwan
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v10i1pp.1-23
Subject(s) - politics , principal (computer security) , exploit , welfare , context (archaeology) , economics , distribution (mathematics) , developing country , development economics , economic growth , economic system , political science , geography , computer science , market economy , mathematical analysis , computer security , mathematics , archaeology , law , operating system
Many countries have "regional problems". Income and politicalpower are allocated unequally among regions with no significant changeover time, and these inequities are a source of political tension. Theregional problem in Pakistan is especially severe because the peculiargeographic nature of Pakistan makes the issue so visible1. Economicplanners in Pakistan and other poor countries are often as¬signed thetask of designing programmes to bring about income parity among regions.In doing so, planners confront several analytic and technical prob¬lems.The principal difficulty is how to allocate resources so as to bestconform to political preferences of policy-makers. In this context it isdesirable to dis¬cover and exploit the comparative advantages of theregions. Regional com¬parative advantages, in turn, are dependent uponthe regional distribution of resources and upon political preferences asto the regional allocation of welfare.