Garments Sector in Pakistan

About the Authors

Ijaz Nabi

Executive Director, CDPR and Country Director, IGC Pakistan

Naved Hamid

Director, Center for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) and Professor of Economics, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan

Syed Turab Hussain

Associate Professor of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Kashif Zaheer Malik

Associate Professor, LUMS

Usman Khan

International Policy & Strategy Expert

Adeel Faheem

Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Fatima Habib

Research Associate, CDPR

Zara Salman

Chief Executive Officer, CDPR

Rafia Zafar

Assistant Professor of Economics at the City College of New York

Hina Shaikh

Senior Country Economist, IGC Pakistan

  • Posted On: May 16, 2025

Garment manufacturing, the least energy and capital-intensive kind of industrial activity, is not realizing its potential in Pakistan to grow the economy and create employment. To unlock the benefits of garments manufacturing on Pakistan’s economy, it must move up the value chain and compete in global export markets.

This study was funded by the IGC betwen 2013-16.

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