EVALUATING THE PAKISTAN AS AN IMPORTING COUNTRY: A GREY INCIDENCE MODELLING

Abstract

The study is aimed at evaluating the Pakistan’s position as an importing country against the selected sixty-eight countries. The design of the study is review of literature, data elicitation, and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA). Population under study comprises of all sovereign countries of the world since imports are common phenomenon world over. Sampling design is non-probability based purposive sampling. All countries, the data of that was available on website of World Bank i.e. World Development Indicators (WDI) are included in sample. Data are taken from WDI and have been analyzed through technique of GRA. Results of analysis show that Pakistan occupies fifty-seventh position among sixty-nine countries. Germany occupies first position and Brazil occupies sixty-ninth position. This is a real time data based study having propounding practical and theoretical implications for the stakeholders.