PM directs to accelerate reforms process to entice investment in different sectors
Last updated on: 14 August,2021 12:58 pm
PM also called for export diversification and import substitution.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the authorities concerned to accelerate the process of reforms to entice investment in different sectors.
Chairing a meeting of Economic Advisory Council in Islamabad on Saturday, the Prime Minister emphasized for bringing improvement in State Owned Enterprises and ensuring ease of doing business.
He also called for export diversification and import substitution.
Imran Khan said the government is giving special emphasis to the gas and mineral sectors besides encouraging the investment of overseas Pakistanis in priority sectors of economy.
The Prime Minister was informed that the Economic Advisory Council has identified fourteen priority sectors for reforms in order to enhance the growth rate to six percent and the investment to GDP ratio to twenty percent from fifteen percent in the next three years.