Pakistan

MERI Assessment

Pakistan scores 37.0 on the MERI Readiness Index, placing it in Tier 4 at global rank 112 (11.2th percentile). The country trails its regional median by 14.0 points and its income-group median by 4.6 points. Three active red flags—severe active conflict with 1150 battle-deaths, 169 OFAC sanctions entries, and 59 EU consolidated sanctions entries—present material barriers. Regulatory-institutional capacity at 57.1 is the strongest pillar; market infrastructure at 26.9 is the weakest.

One indicator (Foreign Ownership Restrictions) is missing from the regulatory-institutional pillar, and one indicator (Human Capital Quality) was imputed using peer methodology. Assessments of FDI policy frameworks should account for this limitation.