Pakistanprivate Investment Initiative
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE Pakistan Private Investment Initiative Dustin Cathcart, Meredith Gloger, & Aaron Roesch John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University May 2012 A Policy Analysis Exercise submitted to Office of the Coordinator for Economic & DevelopmentAssistance U.S. Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan U.S. Department of State PAKISTAN PRIVATE INVESTMENT INITIATIVE HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL POLICY ANALYSIS EXERCISE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Above all, we would like to thank our principal cli- ent, Vinay Chawla, Deputy Coordinator for Eco- nomic and Development Assistance at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. As our main point of con- tact for this project, we owe him a huge debt of gratitude—and we have sincerely enjoyed work- ing with him. (He also housed us for two days in Islamabad, so we are extremely grateful for that, as well.) We further thank Ambassador Cameron Munter and the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad for encouraging and supporting this research project. We also want to thank Nadia Naviwala, who first introduced us to Vinay, and to many other essen- tial contacts for this project. Thank you as well to Mark Karns, Vinay’s counterpart at USAID, who has been exceptionally helpful throughout this process. Thanks are due to our advisor, Professor Meghan O’Sullivan, as well as our Policy Area Concentra- tion seminar leaders—Profoessors Monica Toft and Stephen Kosack. Their feedback throughout this process has been invaluable. We wish to thank Ali Siddiqui and Steve Smith, and everyone at JS Private Equity and JS Bank, for their unbelievably generous support during our trip to Pakistan—and, in particular, an immense thank you to Imran Shaikh, whose hospitality truly knows no bounds.
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