Challenges for the future: Despite the impressive studies made on several fronts in the recent past Pakistan has a number of challenges to reduce incidence of poverty to half its current level by 2015. This will require sustained GDP growth rates of 7 to 8 percent per annum, targeted poverty interventions and accelerated investment in human development.
Some of these challenges are listed below: 1. Diversification of export base: Two thirds of Pakistani exports are based on Cotton textiles while in the world market textiles are not a dynamic commodity. Technological base of Pakistani exports is low and the share of engineering goods is almost negligible.