Pakistan's Growing Human Capital

[INDIC]

Yes, thank God Pakistan is not like India which is home to the world's largest population of poor, hungry and illiterates who still defecate in the open.

Haq's Musings: 63 Years After Independence, India Remains Home to World's Largest Population of Poor, Hungry and Illiterates

1951
India's Literacy rate =18%, Pakistan's literacy rate=19.2%

2011
India's literacy rate=74%, Pakistan's literacy rate =56%

 

[Pakistanisage]

Only compare to your selves...improve as much as you can don't worry about others.

You said it @Juice. Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[INDIC]

He kept on parading this for months and months like a parrot.

Pakistan has a secondary level completion rate of 22% while India has 0.9%!

Basic data skills would have told him how foolish the whole thing is. Not a Pavlovian response system.

BTW, India doesn't benchmark itself against Pakistan. Not because we have contempt for them or anything, just that we don't think we have anything to do with them.

We need to find our own destiny and they are free to find their own.

Pakistan education budget stands at low at 0.9% of GDP Same is more than 4% of GDP in India.

Here Chinese views about Education budget allocation.

China raises education spending, but more needs to be done - Xinhua | English.news.cn


BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The central government spending on education will account for 4% of the country's GDP this year.

It is also clear that when we are about to eat this "apple" of "4%", others have picked a greater and sweeter "apple". The investment in education of the United States had reached 7% of GDP in 1999, and the percentage had reached 5% in India in 2003.

 

[RiazHaq]

Let's compare percentage of manufactured exports:

Pakistan 85%

India 79%

Exports manufactured statistics - countries compared - NationMaster

 

[karan.1970]

Why is it the the OP always brings India in any post he makes?

Its the green eyed monster afflicted with the disease of obsession

 

[Rain]

well, most people demonize Pakistan, their worries increases exponentially when some one shows that this demon is bent upon getting itself equipped with modern education as well.

The way out for those is either stop demonizing or quit reading the 'Muzings'.

 

[INDIC]

Let's compare percentage of manufactured exports:

Pakistan 85%

India 79%

Exports manufactured statistics - countries compared - NationMaster

How much of that is textile. Why you missed out comparison of export volume.

 

[RiazHaq]

Pakistan education budget stands at low at 0.9% of GDP Same is more than 4% of GDP in India.

Here Chinese views about Education budget allocation.

China raises education spending, but more needs to be done - Xinhua | English.news.cn


BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The central government spending on education will account for 4% of the country's GDP this year.

It is also clear that when we are about to eat this "apple" of "4%", others have picked a greater and sweeter "apple". The investment in education of the United States had reached 7% of GDP in 1999, and the percentage had reached 5% in India in 2003.

Pakistan has a huge private sector in eduction and it's rapidly growing.

Pakistan has been increasing enrollment of students in schools at a faster rate since 1990 than India. In 1990, there were 66.2% of Pakistanis vs 51.6% of Indians who had no schooling. In 2000, there were 60.2% Pakistanis vs 43% Indians with no schooling. In 2010, Pakistan reduced it to 38% vs India's 32.7%.

The number of private schools grew 10 fold from about 3000 in 1983 to over 30,000 in 2000.

The rate of private school formation far exceeds the rate of population growth. Using numbers for primary school enrollment in 1983 from Jimenez (578,330 students in the four provinces of Pakistan) and our latest numbers we get an overall increase of 937%, far greater than the 57% population increase (in the same four provinces) between 1981 and 1998. Thus the growth in private school enrollment, even after controlling for population growth, is enormous.

http://economics-files.pomona.edu/andrabi/research/pakschool march29.pdf

How much of that is textile. Why you missed out comparison of export volume.

What difference does it make? The bottom line is that only 15% of Pak exports are raw materials vs India's 21%.

 

[karan.1970]

Let's compare percentage of manufactured exports:

Pakistan 85%

India 79%

Exports manufactured statistics - countries compared - NationMaster

But considering that India does a total per capita export of 133.9 USD against Pakistan's 109.9 USD, using your figures, India's per capita manufactured export is $ 105.7 against Pakistan's figure of $ 93, a good 14% higher for India..

Exports (per capita) statistics - countries compared - NationMaster Economy

 

[RiazHaq]

But considering that India does a total per capita export of 133.9 USD against Pakistan's 109.9 USD, using your figures, India's per capita manufactured export is $ 105.7 against Pakistan's figure of $ 93, a good 14% higher for India..

Exports (per capita) statistics - countries compared - NationMaster Economy

Because Pakistan has a bigger middle class consumer base than India as percent of population.

Consumer spending in Pakistan has increased at a 26 percent average pace the past three years, compared with 7.7 percent for Asia, according to data compiled by Euromonitor International, a consumer research firm.

Haq's Musings: Pakistan Offers Higher Economic Mobility Than US, China

 

[INDIC]

Pakistan has a huge private sector in eduction and it's rapidly growing.

Pakistan has been increasing enrollment of students in schools at a faster rate since 1990 than India. In 1990, there were 66.2% of Pakistanis vs 51.6% of Indians who had no schooling. In 2000, there were 60.2% Pakistanis vs 43% Indians with no schooling. In 2010, Pakistan reduced it to 38% vs India's 32.7%.

The number of private schools grew 10 fold from about 3000 in 1983 to over 30,000 in 2000.

The rate of private school formation far exceeds the rate of population growth. Using numbers for primary school enrollment in 1983 from Jimenez (578,330 students in the four provinces of Pakistan) and our latest numbers we get an overall increase of 937%, far greater than the 57% population increase (in the same four provinces) between 1981 and 1998. Thus the growth in private school enrollment, even after controlling for population growth, is enormous.

http://economics-files.pomona.edu/andrabi/research/pakschool march29.pdf



What difference does it make? The bottom line is that only 15% of Pak exports are raw materials vs India's 21%.

Even with private sector spending is mere 0.9% of GDP, budgetary allocation was mere 0.58% of budget last year.

Pakistan has highest number of kids out of School in Asia, next only to Nigeria.

 

[RiazHaq]

Even with private sector spending is mere 0.9% of GDP, budgetary allocation was mere 0.58% of budget last year.

Pakistan has highest number of kids out of School in Asia, next only to Nigeria.

Nonsense!!! Public spending on K-12 education is 1.5% of GDP, according to a govt commission report last year. Private spending is in addition to it.

Haq's Musings: Save Pakistan's Education, Airline & Railways

 

[INDIC]

Nonsense!!! Public spending on K-12 education is 1.5% of GDP, according to a govt commission report last year. Private spending is in addition to it.

Haq's Musings: Save Pakistan's Education, Airline & Railways

Not true, education spending in Pakistan is 0.9% of GDP since last two fiscal years, before that it may be 1.5% of GDP.

 

[karan.1970]

Because Pakistan has a bigger middle class consumer base than India as percent of population.

Consumer spending in Pakistan has increased at a 26 percent average pace the past three years, compared with 7.7 percent for Asia, according to data compiled by Euromonitor International, a consumer research firm.

Haq's Musings: Pakistan Offers Higher Economic Mobility Than US, China

flitting from topic to topic like a little ferret now are we ??

Thought we were commenting on the manufactured component of exports What happened there? Do you concede that India in real per capita terms exports 13% more manufactured goods than Pakistan ?

 

[Trisonics]

Let's compare percentage of manufactured exports:

Pakistan 85%

India 79%

Exports manufactured statistics - countries compared - NationMaster

SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC

its 2013 now just in case your obsession has made you this blind.

NationMaster - Correlations > Economy > Exports > Manufactured





High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)

Pak: 2

India: 7

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TX.VAL.TECH.MF.ZS