Author: Fazal Karim Khatri
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-92-08
Year: 1992
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1989
Examination Committee: B.W.E. Wickramanayake (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, Harvey Demaine (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The concentration of economic activities at one particular areas causes over concentration. Various policies were implemented to ease out pressure from the major metropolitan cities. Among these creation of establishing an industrial estates outside the metropolitan boundary was most important means to deconcentrate the economic activities by providing certain incentives, This study examines the Hub Industrial Estate of Hub town of Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, which was created to deconcentrate the industries outside Karachi. Primary survey through an structured questionnaire was the only tool to obtain information from the industrial entrepreneurs to achieve the objective of the study. The outcome of the results of analysis indicates that the deconcentration of industries has partially taken place as result of incentives as well as the proximity of agglomeration economies in Karachi . It has ease out the pressure of migration also as it has absorbed the local labour force of more than 3000 worker which is 32 percent of the total labour force of the estate. The major bottlenecks for the expansion were the only external road I ink to Karachithe shortage of skilled labour force in the l ocality,
Scholarship Donor(s): The Royal Netherlands Government through The ISS / AITProject on Cooperation on International Education Research in Rural and Regional Development Planning
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Science
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