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Pakistan: Spending Needs for Reaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Fernanda Brollo
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Emine Hanedar
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Mr. Sébastien Walker
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Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2021: Issue 108
Language:
English
Publication Date:
29 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513582399.001
ISBN:
9781513582399
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
21
Keywords:
Sustainable Development Goals; Pakistan; Costing SDGs; electricity generation; additional spending; IMF SDG; sector-international comparison; teacher wage bill; Sustainable Development Goals (SDG); Global
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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.
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ISSN:
1018-5941
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
Volume 2021: Issue 108