Status of Labour Rights in Pakistan 2016

The PILER 2016 report on the Status of Labour Rights, sixth in the series, based on the secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting labour directly or indirectly. Pakistan’s sustained economic growth in 2016 brought the country in the ranks of emerging markets. In the MSCI index, the country was upgraded from a frontier economy to an merging economy. The outcomes of the promising scenario were not apparent on the ground though. The pace of economic activities was faster, dominated by big infrastructure and energy development projects. At the micro-level the country hardly met any standard of a developed market. Even the largest hub of he country’s commerce and trade and the port city Karachi’s infrastructure crumbled and citizens struggled with daily living and kept the economy going.