DEVELOPMENT RANK ORDERING OF DISTRICTS OF PAKISTAN: Revisited

This paper quantifies the level of development of districts of Pakistan using 33 Indicators and the latest published infomation, Three techniques viz; Z-SUM, Taxonomic Distance and Weighted Factor Score are employed to rank districts. The findings indicate significant inter district and intra-provincial differences in the Ievel of development. We find pockets of developed and under developed regions in all the four provinces of Pakistan, The predominant share of the Punjab population lives in better conditions (top quartile). The share of Sindh, NWFP and Baluchistan in the backward districts (bottom quartile) greater than their provincial population share.