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Built on Rails: The State of Fintech in Pakistan

This report maps Pakistan’s fintech ecosystem as of 2026, its infrastructure, its principal segments, and the gap between explosive transaction...

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Unlocking the Potential of Pakistan’s Other Business Services Exports: Accounting, Auditing, Bookkeeping and Tax Consulting Services

This study, “Unlocking the Potential of Pakistan’s Other Business Services Exports: Accounting, Auditing, Bookkeeping and Tax Consulting Services”, is a...

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Transforming Agricultural Markets in Pakistan

This policy brief explores the structure and functioning of Pakistan’s agricultural marketing system, the role of mandis and intermediaries in shaping market outcomes, the structural constraints limiting transparency and efficiency, and the reforms needed to gradually integrate modern storage, finance, and market infrastructure into the existing system to improve farmer incomes and market resilience.

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The Missing Link: Building Pakistan’s Cold Chain

The brief examines the current state of Pakistan’s cold chain infrastructure and highlights how inadequate cold storage, refrigerated transport, and value chain integration contribute to high post-harvest losses, reduced farmer incomes, food waste, and missed export opportunities.

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Grain without Shelter: Pakistan’s Post-Harvest Storage Crisis and the Path Forward

This policy brief explores the structural weaknesses in Pakistan’s grain storage and warehousing system that result in over $1.3 billion in annual post-harvest losses, market instability, and reduced farmer incomes despite adequate crop production.

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Beyond the Tractor: Pakistan’s Next Mechanization Wave

This policy brief explores the current state of agricultural mechanization in Pakistan, the structural and institutional challenges limiting its effectiveness, and the reforms needed to build a more efficient, reliable, and inclusive mechanization services ecosystem that can improve productivity, reduce losses, and strengthen farmer incomes.

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Expanding Pakistan’s IT Footprint

Pakistan's IT and ITeS sector has seen unprecedented growth over the last few years. The sector has sustained double-digit export growth despite macroeconomic crisis, hyperinflation and the onset of AI-driven disruption to the global IT services industry.

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Enhancing the Competitiveness of Pakistan’s Domestic Fan Industry (2026)

The domestic fan industry is one of Pakistan’s oldest and most established segments within the light engineering sector, with a legacy that predates independence.

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Enhancing the Export Competitiveness of Pakistan’s Aluminum Utensils Sector

This study, “Enhancing the Export Competitiveness of Pakistan’s Aluminum Utensils Sector” is based not only on secondary research, but more...

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Empowering Women in Pakistan by Empowering Midwives

This study, “Empowering Women in Pakistan by Empowering Midwives”, is a part of PBC’s series on the services sector. The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the critical role and the potential of the midwifery workforce in Pakistan to significantly improve maternal and newborn health outcomes, thus strengthening the national healthcare system.

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Export of Electronics from Pakistan

This policy brief, developed by the Pakistan Business Council (PBC), explores Pakistan’s long-standing but underrealized potential in the electronics sector — particularly its capacity to participate in global electronics value chains through strategic policy interventions in electronics design, power electronics manufacturing, and semiconductor enablement.

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Fixing the Foundation — Rebuilding Capital Formation and Investor Confidence in Pakistan’s Startup Economy

This policy paper, titled Fixing the Foundation — Rebuilding Capital Formation and Investor Confidence in Pakistan’s Startup Economy, has been developed by The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) in collaboration with the National Science and Technology Park (NSTP) at NUST University.