Pakistan: Spending Needs for Reaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

By Fernanda Brollo, Emine Hanedar, Sébastien Walker

April 29, 2021

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Fernanda Brollo, Emine Hanedar, and Sébastien Walker. Pakistan: Spending Needs for Reaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper assesses the additional spending required to make substantial progress towards achieving the SDGs in Pakistan. We focus on critical areas of human (education and health) and physical (electricity, roads, and water and sanitation) capital. For each sector, we document the progress to date, assess where Pakistan stands relative to its peers, highlight key challenges, and estimate the additional spending required to make substantial progress. The estimates for the additional spending are derived using the IMF SDG costing methodology. We find that to achieve the SDGs in these sectors would require additional annual spending of about 16 percent of GDP in 2030 from the public and private sectors combined.

Subject: Development, Education, Health, Population and demographics, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Keywords: Additional spending, Costing SDGs, Electricity generation, Global, IMF SDG, Pakistan, Sector-international comparison, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Teacher wage bill

Publication Details

Pages:

21
Volume:

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Working Paper No. 2021/108
Stock No:

WPIEA2021108
ISBN:

9781513582399
ISSN:

1018-5941

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