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Pakistan declared best country for infrastructure development

This is written by an Iworld. in Quora, in which areas, Pakistan is ahead of India...seems plausible except for one or two.

Areas Pakistan is ahead of India.


1) Road Infrastructure.
2) Clean Energy - hydro electricity
3) Diplomacy and Foreign Policy - much ahead than India
4) Intelligence Service (ISI)
5) Population homogeneity
6) Resource Availability per capita
7) Access to electricity, I may add 90% of the population has access to electricity, the power lines are there...but power shortage makes it difficult as of now...
8) Far ahead in water access, water equity, sanitation access, and sanitation equity.
9) Urbanization
10) Less Population density.
11) Per Capita Meat Consumption
12) Less poverty
13) Less inequality, India ranks two in the world with most un-equality, after Russia at number one in income distribution.
14) Gased Pipeline, Pakistan has 10,000 Km of gas pipeline and India 11,000 or so. Looking at the size and land mass Pakistan is much ahead.
15) CNG usage, more than 6 million cars and buses on CNG in Paksitan, more than 17,00 CNG stations nationwide.



http://tribune.com.pk/story/883648/...n-improving-water-and-sanitation-study-shows/
A better read is below..
The below is an article by section officer in the Ministry of Commerce( Pakistan) in 2014.
This report based on Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) 2014-15 for 144 economies around the world
That year India ranks 71 and Pakistan ranks 129..
In 2016 India 39 Pakistan 122

http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/are-we-better-than-india/
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Are we better than India?
Muhammad Umer Saleem Bhatti TFT Issue: 17 Oct 2014
Self esteem is important, but so is rational self-reflection






There is a perception among our countrymen these days, a rousingly ethnocentric one, that Pakistan is better than India by almost all means. We think our military is better than India’s, our people are more beautiful than Indians, Pakistanis are unbiased and Indians are discriminatory, Pakistanis are more hospitable than Indians, and if there would be a war, Pakistan would wipe India out.

But, the basic question is, do these things really matter in an ever evolving and progressing world, especially when the war front has been switched from the military supremacy to the economic supremacy? Economic independence and development is the name of the game in today’s world.

Most Pakistanis think high of themselves and their country vis a vis India because a person’s or nation’s self esteem demands it. Indians, or people from any other country, would think the same. But let us judge our perception on the anvil of neutrality, impartiality and objectiveness to reach a definitive conclusion about its validity.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) 2014-15 for 144 economies around the world. The different aspects of competitiveness are captured in twelve pillars that compose the Global development Index (GCI). Out of 144 economies, 1 is the best and 144 is the worst ranking. There is first an overall ranking for a country, then a ranking for each pillar of GCI, and then sub-rankings of different sub-pillars.

The twelve pillars of GCI include institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment, health and primary education, higher education and training, goods market efficiency, labour market efficiency, financial market development, technological readiness, market size, business sophistication and innovation.

The overall ranking for Pakistan is 129 out of 144. The same for India is 71. For institutions, Pakistan stands at 123 and India at 70. Pakistan ranks at 119 for the pillar of infrastructure and India at 87. For the sub-pillar of quality of roads infrastructure, Pakistan is at 75 and India is at 76 and for the sub-pillar of quality of railroad infrastructure, Pakistan and India are at 72 and 27 respectively. For port-infrastructure, Pakistan is at 59 and India at 76.

Macroeconomic Environment pillar’s ranking for Pakistan is 137 and same for India is 101. For the sub-pillar of Gross National Savings as a percentage of GDP, India stands way ahead of Pakistan with a ranking of 18 in comparison to Pakistan’s 120. For annual inflation percentage change, India is doing worse than Pakistan at 133 against 120 and for government debt percentage of GDP; again Pakistan beats India by 4 points at 106 against India’s 110.

Talking about the fourth pillar of health and primary education, Pakistan is at 129 against 98 of India. The most striking difference between the two countries in this pillar lies in the sub-pillar of HIV prevalence, share percentage of adult population, in which India ranks at 59 and Pakistan at number 1. But here one thing must be kept in mind that there is a huge population difference between the two countries.

For the fifth pillar of higher education and training, India stands at 93 and Pakistan at 127. India is ahead of Pakistan by a significant margin in all the sub-pillars of higher education and training.

“Reality doesn’t bite, rather our perception of reality bites”
In Goods Market Efficiency, India and Pakistan are at 95 and 100 respectively. For the sub-pillar of prevalence of trade barriers, Pakistan enjoys a much better ranking of 65 against India’s 100.

In Labour Market Efficiency, Pakistan and India are at 132 and 112. In the sub-pillars of country capacity to retain talent and the country capacity to attract talent, India is doing a lot better with a ranking of 42 and 46 against Pakistan’s 87 and 110 respectively.

For the pillar of financial market development, Pakistan and India stand at 72 and 51. For the ninth pillar of technological readiness, Pakistan ranks at 114 against India’s 121. Pakistan’s ranking is much better than India and almost all the sub-pillars of this main pillar.

For Market Size, India is one of the best in the world with an overall ranking of 3 against Pakistan’s 30. India sweeps Pakistan out of all the sub-pillars of market size.

For the last two pillars of business sophistication and innovation, India stands ahead of Pakistan and ranks at 57 and 49 against Pakistan’s 81 and 88.

With the statistics out there, there is is nothing more to say. I leave it to the readers to ponder over the facts cited in this nonpartisan survey and reach at a rational conclusion about the state of affairs of these two biggest south Asian economies.

To conclude, as Anthony D’ Angelo puts it,

“Reality doesn’t bite, rather our perception of reality bites”

The writer is a section officer in the Ministry of Commerce. He may be reached at umerbhatti83@gmail.com
 
Karachi port, container terminal, a new deep sea terminal about to be completed.

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Lahore has definately changed alot over the years when it comes to roads..was very refreshing to see clean roads and disciplined traffic for the first time there after years.The Sharrifs have invested heavily here for sure!
 
As far as roads and rail network go Pakistan is equal if not ahead (esp. roads)
however you include the airports and sea ports then India surely is much bigger being a much much bigger country.
I think.....(as I have not visited pak yet)
Roads : Pakistan still better, while india is trying to catch up.
Railroad : india hands down.
Airports n seaports : agree. It's india.
 
Winds of Change - wind power generation in Pakistan.

Wind Energy
the coastal belt of Pakistan is blessed with a God gifted wind corridor that is 60 km wide (Gharo ~ Kati Bandar) and 180 km long (up to Hyderabad). This corridor has the exploitable potential of 50,000 MW of electricity generation through wind energy. In addition to that there have been some other wind sites have been exploited in coastal area of Balochistan and some Northern areas. Most of the remote villages in the south can be electrified through micro wind turbines. It is estimated that more than 5000 villages can be electrified through wind energy in Sindh, Balochistan and Northern areas.

Currently 1500 MW's production capacity installed.


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https://defence.pk/threads/alternative-energy-in-pakistan-projects-and-news.205935/

33 Wind Turbines, Total capacity of 49.5 MW, being installed in Gharo, Sindh.

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It actually looks much better in real, went there last year after 20 years and I was amazed, so organized so clean and lush green with flowers everywhere....Karachi boy got so envy, wish we can borrow SS for one term
Karachi dont need SS, Karachi had Mustafa kamal and SS followed him.
 
Karachi stopped developing due to various reasons & we all know the reasons behind it, while Lahore kept on developing & apparently have over taken Karachi, but guys we have other cities apart from these cities which need to be looked after, it seems most of the budget r being spend on big cities, which is understandable as they are the face... but more need to be done for smaller cities to at least bring them 70% closer to these big cities... btw i live in Lahore..... so dont even think of me jealous of Lahore..... distribution of resources to other cities need to be done as well...
 
In infrastructure India is much better than Pakistan..
much better ? dude come out of the rock you have been living under , just go a few kms aways from the main city areas and you will get an idea about the "much better infrastructure" ,even within the city limits it is pathetic is some places ,even in big cities
 
Has a link to the report referenced in the original post been posted anywhere?

Never heard of "Emerging Markets" by World Bank + IMF.

Or its just a one-off statement/"award"?
 
I think.....(as I have not visited pak yet)
Roads : Pakistan still better, while india is trying to catch up.
Railroad : india hands down.
Airports n seaports : agree. It's india.
india is ahead i know. actually we are catching up. no competitions everyones own race.
 
Pakistan declared best country for infrastructure development
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ISLAMABAD: Emerging Markets has declared Pakistan the best country for infrastructure development in South Asia.

Emerging Markets is a research and publishing institute of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

According to a statement issued here on Sunday, Pakistan was declared the best attractive country for infrastructure development.

The award was given due to successful investment in energy and transport projects.

Pakistan received the distinction in recognition of the government’s best planning in various mega projects, including China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Lahore Karachi railway, LNG pipeline and energy projects.

Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal was invited to receive the award in Washington but due to his unavailability Pakistan’s Ambassador in the US Jalil Abbas Jillani received the award in a ceremony held in Washington on Saturday night.

what is the criteria for the award ??
 
Emerging market: PIDE lauds acknowledgement
By APP
Published: October 11, 2016
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) appreciated acknowledgement of Pakistan as the best country for infrastructure development in South Asia, that too by an internationally renowned publication.

Prof Dr Usman Mustafa, Infrastructure Development Expert at PIDE said, “It is a good sign for the country and its economy that the Emerging Market has declared Pakistan as the best country for infrastructure development in South Asia.”

Market myths and realities

Talking to APP, he said infrastructure was the key to development and economic growth of any country and the economic development under CPEC was also a positive sign for the country. He said that this would not only bolster confidence of investors but also help attract foreign direct investment.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 11th, 2016.
 
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