PSDP
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PSDP (plural PSDPs)
- (Pakistan) Initialism of Public Sector Development Programme, a function of the Planning Commission of Pakistan.
- 2001, Sohail Mahmood, The Musharraf regime and the governance crisis: a case study of the Government of Pakistan, Nova Publishers,, →ISBN:
- page 78: The current allocation from the Public Sector Development Plan (PSDP) for agriculture development projects is 0.45% only, which is less than Rs 500 million.
- page 88: The GOP must spend more on the public sector by increasing the allocations for the Public Sector Development Programs (PSDP). These PSDPs are financed out of the annual budget. However, the reality is different. Over the years, the PSDP has decreased rather than grown.
- 2006, Pervez Musharraf, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 187:
- All these improvements gave us funds for projects in our Public Sector Development Program (PSDP). Between 1988 and 1999, PSDP remained stagnant between 90 billion and 110 billion rupees.
- 2007, Sohail Mahmood, Good Governance Reform Agenda in Pakistan: Current Challenges, Nova Publishers,, →ISBN:
- pages 43–44: The outlay for the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) for 1999-2000 was fixed at only Rs125 billion, an increase of Rs.98 billion from the previous year. The last fiscal year’s PSDP had been increased to a massive Rs272 billion with a major share earmarked for extending infrastructure facilities that provide temporary jobs countrywide, social sectors and energy sectors. The current fiscal year’s PSDP has been increased even further.
- page 55: The Musharraf regime must spend more on the social sector by increasing the allocations for the Public Sector Development Programs (PSDP). These PSDPs were financed out of the annual budget.
- 2009, Aqila Khawaja, “Poverty and its Management in Pakistan”, chapter 8 of Amita Singh et al. (editors), Governance and Poverty Reduction: Beyond the Cage of Best Practices, PHI Learning Private Limited, 2009, →ISBN, page 119:
- Another good scheme The Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the fiscal year 2004–2005 has been increased to Rs.202 billion a 26 percent increase over last years PSDP of Rs.160 billion. Increased funds for PSDP mean enhanced public sector investment to generate employment thus raising overall growth.