1.  Forging a political consensus to ensure Pakistan pursues and remains committed to strategic long-term economic policies that transcend political cycles in order to reduce our dependence on international financial institutions such as the IMF and on expensive international debt.

2.  Introduction of policies for diversification of the economy and encourage industries other than textiles and agriculture, toward the production and growth of manufacturing sector and export of higher-valued added goods and services.

3.  Pursuing policies of political non-alignment to increase exports, improve trade relationships with new markets and to attract investment in core infrastructure development.

4.  Encouraging formalization of the economy.

5.  Digitization of the economy, especially land records, and a commitment to provide security of rights and agreements.

6.  Designing policies to encourage retention of Pakistan’s most skilled and educated labor, including a focus on meritocracy and the elimination of patronage and corruption in hiring.

7.  Reducing the hold of special interest groups in economic decision making that skews productivity and growth.

8.  Enhancement of tax collection by bringing untaxed sectors into the net, reducing tax evasion to increase revenue and reduce the fiscal deficit in an equitable manner by designing appropriate non-filer penalties.

9.  Encouragement of long-term strategic foreign and domestic investment by improving the ease of doing business, offering incentives to investors and providing political stability and security.

10.  Reformation of the energy sector by reduction of subsidies, investment in alternative energy sources, improvement in transmission and distribution networks and scrapping of expensive-energy projects.

11.  Restructuring of debt by carefully designing a debt restructuring plan including negotiation with creditors to extend maturities, reduce interest rates, or forgive some of the debt, while avoiding as much as possible negative consequences such as a credit rating downgrade or loss of investor confidence.

12.  Enhancement of debt management capacity to ensure Pakistan does not fall back into a debt trap in the future, involving strengthening debt management policies, improving debt reporting and monitoring, and enhancing debt analysis and forecasting capabilities.

13.  Pursuing economic policies to raise total factor productivity.