Comment on Saif’s Survey of Pakistan Construction Industry on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Bell, Peter (2025): Comment on Saif’s Survey of Pakistan Construction Industry on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Abstract

The historic strategy of global resource imperialism, implemented by the 2013 Belt and Road Initiative from the People's Republic of China, has set a new competitive landscape for economic development worldwide, and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a priority case study for the impacts of rapidly modernizing local transportation networks, energy infrastructure, and the economy. It is essential to track local attitudes towards these government programs, as in the research by Saif, Meixia, and Saleem (2023) from Dalian Jiaotong University, which provides survey results from construction industry participants in Pakistan during this ongoing massive infrastructure investment program.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Commentary on: Saif, Mannan and Meixia, Dong and Saleem, Tayyaba (2023): Evaluating the Influence of China Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan's Construction Industry: Opportunities and Challenges. Forthcoming in:
• Language: English
• Keywords: Surveys, Belt and Road Initiative, CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor), Construction industry, Transnational operation management, Sustainability, Environmental impact, Economic impact, Investment, Technology transfer, Infrastructure development, Stakeholder engagement, Governance, Capacity building, Innovation
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General; D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook > E65 - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F21 - International Investment ; Long-Term Capital Movements; F - International Economics > F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance; F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization; G - Financial Economics > G0 - General; H - Public Economics > H0 - General; H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies; H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General > J08 - Labor Economics Policies; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets; K - Law and Economics > K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law > K33 - International Law; L - Industrial Organization > L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy; L - Industrial Organization > L7 - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction; L - Industrial Organization > L7 - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction > L74 - Construction; L - Industrial Organization > L7 - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction > L78 - Government Policy; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M5 - Personnel Economics; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy; P - Economic Systems > P0 - General; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation > Q33 - Resource Booms; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R0 - General; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R5 - Regional Government Analysis > R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy

References

Saif, M., Meixia, D., and Saleem, T. (2023), “Evaluating the Influence of China Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan's Construction Industry: Opportunities and Challenges”, MPRA Paper #117569, https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/117569

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