PA K I S TA N I N S T I T U T E O F D E V E L O P M E N T E C O N O M I C S S R E P A P G 7 Pakistan's Automotive Industry: 3 N 1 A Case of Stalled Development I . o K N R O W Usman Qadir E D I P July 2016 PIDE Working Papers No. 137 Pakistan’s Automotive Industry: A Case of Stalled Development Usman Qadir Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ISLAMABAD 2016 Editorial Committee Dr Abdul Qayyum Head Dr Durr-e-Nayab Member Dr Anwar Hussain Secretary All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise—without prior permission of the Publications Division, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, P. O. Box 1091, Islamabad 44000. © Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 2016. Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Islamabad, Pakistan E-mail:
[email protected] Website: http://www.pide.org.pk Fax: +92-51-9248065 Designed, composed, and finished at the Publications Division, PIDE. CONTENTS Page Abstract v 1. Introduction 1 2. Pakistan’s Automotive Industry— Some Stylised Facts 2 2.1. Key Statistics 2 2.2. Market Shares 6 2.3. Key Characteristics of the Domestic Automotive Market 10 2.4. Institutional Framework 11 2.5. Trends in the Automotive Industry 17 3. Survey Methodology and Data 19 4. Analysis of Key Findings 21 4.1.