An Analysis of Pakistan’s Agriculture Sector Performance Under Autocracy and Democracy During 1999-2016:
Keywords:
Economic performance, Agriculture sector shares in GDP, Agriculture sector average share in GDP, Agriculture sector average growth rate share in GDP, Autocracy, Democratic government, EtcAbstract
Abstract:
Since inception, Pakistan’s economy has been experiencing two
forms of government, namely, autocracy and democracy. These forms of
Government have directly and indirectly affected the economy of the
country. The need arises to bring to light the effects of the forms of
government on economic performance of the country. In this regard, the
present study is under taken to analyze the economic performance under
autocratic and democratic forms of Government in the leading sector such
as, agriculture sector of Pakistan’s economy. For the comparative analysis
of the data, we have used a framework of descriptive statistic, as well as
quantitative techniques like ANOVA and OLS technique. The study results
showed that there was no significant difference between regimes economic
performance regarding leading sector average shares in GDP and a
significant difference identified on average growth rate shares in GDP. The
agriculture sector defected more or less the same trend under both the forms
of government.
1MPhil Scholar, Department of Economics University of Balochistan Quetta Pakistan
2Professor, Dr. Jahangir Khan Achakzai, Department of Economics university of
Balochistan Quetta Pakistan
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