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Pakistan - Strategic Environmental, Poverty and Social Assessment of Trade and Transport Sector Reforms

dc.contributor.author World Bank
dc.date.accessioned 2013-02-12T17:41:04Z
dc.date.available 2013-02-12T17:41:04Z
dc.date.issued 2012-12
dc.description.abstract The Government of Pakistan's (GoP's) 2011 framework for economic growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 percent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing business, improve the investment climate, and strengthen institutions. Trade and transport reforms are central to achieve the Framework's goal. The transport sector constitutes 10 percent of Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides 6 percent of the employment in the country. The sector plays an important role in linking other sectors in the economy, contributes to both domestic and international trade, and helps facilitate the spatial transformation occurring in Pakistan. However, present patterns in transport and trade logistics generate inefficiencies that are costing Pakistan's economy roughly 4-6 percent of GDP per year, which is a major constraint to the aspirations set out in the Framework. This analytical work on Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment (SEPSA) of trade and transport sector reforms examines poverty, social and environmental aspects associated with reforms that would increase the freight transport sector's productivity to meet the framework goals. it focused on the following areas: (i) SEPSA's methodology and aims; (ii) description of key challenges in Pakistan's freight transport sectors, including the road, trucking, railway, port, and aviation sectors, as well as trade and transport interventions and reforms proposed by the GoP and other stakeholders; (iii) identification of stakeholders, particularly the most vulnerable groups that could be affected by reforms aimed at increasing freight transport productivity, and analyzing the priority poverty issues associated with freight transport in Pakistan; (iv) identification jointly with stakeholders of priority social and environmental issues associated with freight transport, and analyzing such issues; (iv) examination of potential freight transportation social and environmental policy options for enhancing positive effects or reducing adverse effects associated with increases in freight transport productivity; and (v) identification of options to strengthen governance and the institutional capacity of agencies to manage the environmental, social and poverty priorities associated with Pakistan's freight transportation. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/17124733/pakistan-strategic-environmental-poverty-social-assessment-trade-transport-sector-reforms
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12316
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Washington, DC
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject ACCELERATION
dc.subject ACCESSIBILITY
dc.subject AIR
dc.subject AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject AIR QUALITY
dc.subject AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
dc.subject AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
dc.subject AIR TRANSPORT
dc.subject AMBIENT AIR
dc.subject AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject AMBIENT AIR QUALITY
dc.subject AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
dc.subject AVIATION SECTOR
dc.subject BOTTLENECKS
dc.subject BUSES
dc.subject CAPACITY BUILDING
dc.subject CARBON
dc.subject CARBON DIOXIDE
dc.subject CARBON EMISSIONS
dc.subject CARBON MONOXIDE
dc.subject CARGO
dc.subject CARS
dc.subject CEMENT
dc.subject CHLORINE
dc.subject CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subject COAL
dc.subject CONCESSIONS
dc.subject DECISION MAKING
dc.subject DEFORESTATION
dc.subject DESIGN OF TRANSPORT
dc.subject DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
dc.subject DIESEL
dc.subject DISABILITIES
dc.subject DRIVING
dc.subject ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
dc.subject ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
dc.subject ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject EFFLUENTS
dc.subject EMISSION
dc.subject EMISSION STANDARDS
dc.subject EMISSIONS
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS
dc.subject EQUILIBRIUM
dc.subject EXTERNALITIES
dc.subject FATAL ACCIDENTS
dc.subject FATALITIES
dc.subject FEEDER ROADS
dc.subject FISHING
dc.subject FRAMEWORK
dc.subject FREIGHT
dc.subject FREIGHT CLEARANCE
dc.subject FREIGHT EFFICIENCY
dc.subject FREIGHT FORWARDERS
dc.subject FREIGHT FORWARDING
dc.subject FREIGHT SECTOR
dc.subject FREIGHT SERVICES
dc.subject FREIGHT TRAFFIC
dc.subject FREIGHT TRANSPORT
dc.subject FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
dc.subject FUEL
dc.subject FUEL COSTS
dc.subject FUELS
dc.subject GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
dc.subject GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES
dc.subject GREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subject GREENHOUSE GASES
dc.subject HABITAT FRAGMENTATION
dc.subject HEALTH PROBLEMS
dc.subject HIGH TRANSPORT
dc.subject HIGHWAY
dc.subject HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
dc.subject HIGHWAY INVESTMENT
dc.subject HIGHWAY NETWORK
dc.subject INCOME
dc.subject INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject INJURIES
dc.subject INJURY
dc.subject LABOR FORCE
dc.subject LABOR MARKET
dc.subject LOCAL AUTHORITIES
dc.subject LOCAL ROADS
dc.subject LONG-DISTANCE
dc.subject LONGER DISTANCES
dc.subject MAIN ROADS
dc.subject MARKET COMPETITION
dc.subject MODAL SHIFT
dc.subject MODE OF TRANSPORT
dc.subject MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
dc.subject MOTORWAYS
dc.subject MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT
dc.subject NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
dc.subject NATURAL RESOURCES
dc.subject NOISE
dc.subject NOISE LEVELS
dc.subject NOISE POLLUTION
dc.subject PARTICULATE MATTER
dc.subject PASSENGER
dc.subject PASSENGER SERVICES
dc.subject PASSENGER TRAFFIC
dc.subject PASSENGER TRANSPORT
dc.subject PASSENGERS
dc.subject PATH
dc.subject PATRONAGE
dc.subject PAVED ROADS
dc.subject PAVEMENT
dc.subject PAVEMENT CONDITION
dc.subject PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
dc.subject POLICY MAKERS
dc.subject POLLUTION CONTROL
dc.subject POOR ROAD
dc.subject POOR ROAD MAINTENANCE
dc.subject POPULATION GROWTH
dc.subject PORT AUTHORITIES
dc.subject PORTS
dc.subject PRIVATE OPERATORS
dc.subject PRIVATE PARTICIPATION
dc.subject PROVINCIAL ROADS
dc.subject PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
dc.subject QUALITY OF TRANSPORT
dc.subject RAIL
dc.subject RAIL FREIGHT
dc.subject RAIL LINES
dc.subject RAIL LINKS
dc.subject RAIL SERVICES
dc.subject RAIL TRACK
dc.subject RAIL TRANSPORT
dc.subject RAILROAD
dc.subject RAILROADS
dc.subject RAILWAY
dc.subject RAILWAY TRAFFIC
dc.subject RAILWAY TRANSPORT
dc.subject RAILWAYS
dc.subject RECONSTRUCTION
dc.subject RESETTLEMENT
dc.subject RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
dc.subject RISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subject ROAD
dc.subject ROAD ACCIDENTS
dc.subject ROAD CAPACITY
dc.subject ROAD CONGESTION
dc.subject ROAD CONSTRUCTION
dc.subject ROAD DENSITY
dc.subject ROAD DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject ROAD HIERARCHY
dc.subject ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject ROAD INVESTMENT
dc.subject ROAD INVESTMENTS
dc.subject ROAD LENGTH
dc.subject ROAD MAINTENANCE
dc.subject ROAD NETWORK
dc.subject ROAD SAFETY
dc.subject ROAD SECTOR
dc.subject ROAD TRAFFIC
dc.subject ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE
dc.subject ROAD TRANSPORT
dc.subject ROAD TRANSPORT SECTOR
dc.subject ROAD USER
dc.subject ROAD USER COSTS
dc.subject ROADS
dc.subject ROUTES
dc.subject RURAL AREAS
dc.subject RURAL ROADS
dc.subject SHARING
dc.subject SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
dc.subject SOCIAL IMPACTS
dc.subject SPEEDS
dc.subject TOLL
dc.subject TOLL REVENUES
dc.subject TRAFFIC
dc.subject TRAFFIC CONGESTION
dc.subject TRAFFIC DEATH
dc.subject TRAFFIC DEATH RATE
dc.subject TRAFFIC DEATHS
dc.subject TRAFFIC DENSITY
dc.subject TRANSPORT
dc.subject TRANSPORT AGENCIES
dc.subject TRANSPORT COSTS
dc.subject TRANSPORT DEMAND
dc.subject TRANSPORT FACILITATION
dc.subject TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject TRANSPORT MODES
dc.subject TRANSPORT NETWORKS
dc.subject TRANSPORT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
dc.subject TRANSPORT POLICIES
dc.subject TRANSPORT POLICY
dc.subject TRANSPORT POLICY REFORMS
dc.subject TRANSPORT REFORM
dc.subject TRANSPORT SECTOR
dc.subject TRANSPORT SUPPLY
dc.subject TRANSPORT SYSTEM
dc.subject TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
dc.subject TRANSPORTATION
dc.subject TRANSPORTATION COSTS
dc.subject TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY
dc.subject TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject TRANSPORTATION REFORMS
dc.subject TRIPS
dc.subject TRUCK DRIVERS
dc.subject TRUCKING
dc.subject TRUCKS
dc.subject URBAN AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject URBAN PLANNING
dc.subject URBAN SPRAWL
dc.subject URBAN TRANSPORT
dc.subject URBAN TRANSPORTATION
dc.subject URBANIZATION
dc.subject VEHICLE
dc.subject VEHICLE FLEET
dc.subject VEHICLES
dc.subject WATERSHED
dc.subject WEALTH
dc.subject WETLANDS
dc.title Pakistan - Strategic Environmental, Poverty and Social Assessment of Trade and Transport Sector Reforms en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.date.disclosure 2012-12-28
okr.doctype Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study
okr.doctype Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/17124733/pakistan-strategic-environmental-poverty-social-assessment-trade-transport-sector-reforms
okr.globalpractice Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice Transport and ICT
okr.globalpractice Environment and Natural Resources
okr.globalpractice Transport and ICT
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000386194_20121228030253
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 17124733
okr.identifier.report 71812
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/12/28/000386194_20121228030253/Rendered/PDF/NonAsciiFileName0.pdf en
okr.region.administrative South Asia
okr.region.country Pakistan
okr.sector Water, sanitation and flood protection :: General water, sanitation and flood protection sector
okr.sector Public Administration, Law, and Justice :: General public administration sector
okr.sector Industry and trade :: General industry and trade sector
okr.sector Energy and mining :: General energy sector
okr.sector Agriculture, fishing, and forestry :: General agriculture, fishing and forestry sector
okr.theme Financial and private sector development :: Small and medium enterprise support
okr.theme Environment and natural resources management :: Pollution management and environmental health
okr.theme Economic management :: Analysis of economic growth
okr.theme Financial and private sector development :: Infrastructure services for private sector development
okr.theme Urban development :: Other urban development
okr.topic Urban Development :: Transport in Urban Areas
okr.topic Roads and Highways
okr.topic Transport Economics Policy and Planning
okr.topic Environmental Economics and Policies
okr.topic Rural Roads and Transport
okr.topic Rural Development
okr.topic Environment
okr.topic Transport
okr.unit Environment & Water Resources (SASDI)
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