Countries and Regions

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Country Assistance Plans - Pakistan : II. Country Operational Strategy

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A. The COS

37. The last COS, prepared for Pakistan in 1995, signaled a major shift towards greater emphasis on human development, which had been lagging behind despite relatively high growth rates during the 1980s. With this objective, emphasis in the COS was on enhancing the quality and delivery of services, through greater involvement of NGOs and the private sector, and more importantly, improvement in the environment for the private sector to take over areas of the economy that were previously the domain of the public sector. Critical bottlenecks in physical infrastructure were addressed. To improve the performance of social sectors on a sustained basis, the strategy went beyond addressing micro institutional-level shortcomings and proposed broad-based, sector-wide public sector management reforms (or process improvements), including administrative, legal, technical, and institutional aspects. Economic growth was supported as a second strategic objective, to generate employment for the rapidly growing labor force and the financial resources required for investment in human and physical capital.

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