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@JamD I see you have an engineer's love for flowcharts.
I'm not an economist; like @JamD, I'm an engineer (senior year actually) and I also suddenly feel the need and urge to study macroeconomics on my own time.
I'm not educated enough to comment on what all of you have discussed here. Most of it is big brain stuff.
However, something I would like to point out. This is something I believe is not discussed enough. I'll get right to the point.
To implement even ONE of the suggestions mentioned above, to even develop a 'Charter of Economy', you need structures - a basic administrative and policy machinery which can craft fine technicalities and eventually, implement them.
That basic machinery, in Pakistan, is effectively compromised. Every segment of it is filled to the core with men and women who have been efficiently and painstakingly 'cultivated' by a certain political family that has been in power since the 80s. The loyalties of these individuals lie elsewhere.
With this in mind, let there be no doubt that absolutely any attempt at making policies which benefit the wider population and implementing reforms which actually develop this country's economic prowess, will fail. At best, you can expect some atrophied form of prosperity but the dream of the 'Riyasat-e-Madina' (which in reality is a glorious concept and essentially worth emulating) shall not take shape.
This clique of generals, bureaucrats, judges, industrialists, landowners, feudals, etc will never allow any form of progress in this country. And please note that by progress I mean human development and nothing else.
Regardless of what Imran Khan chooses to do (and in my own humble opinion, he is trying heroically), this system will bog him down and entangle him in its web. What is needed is a total rout - the complete bulldozing of all of these colonial remnants that have brought us into this abyss. The first to go should be the feudal system, then the judges and bureaucrats. Lastly, the generals should be reined in. Without this, 30 years from now, we will again be talking about how Imran Khan failed because 'he had a bad team'.
It would not be the team. It would be this cartel of criminals disguised as our saviors and protectors.
I'm not an economist; like @JamD, I'm an engineer (senior year actually) and I also suddenly feel the need and urge to study macroeconomics on my own time.
I'm not educated enough to comment on what all of you have discussed here. Most of it is big brain stuff.
However, something I would like to point out. This is something I believe is not discussed enough. I'll get right to the point.
To implement even ONE of the suggestions mentioned above, to even develop a 'Charter of Economy', you need structures - a basic administrative and policy machinery which can craft fine technicalities and eventually, implement them.
That basic machinery, in Pakistan, is effectively compromised. Every segment of it is filled to the core with men and women who have been efficiently and painstakingly 'cultivated' by a certain political family that has been in power since the 80s. The loyalties of these individuals lie elsewhere.
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric Bastiat
With this in mind, let there be no doubt that absolutely any attempt at making policies which benefit the wider population and implementing reforms which actually develop this country's economic prowess, will fail. At best, you can expect some atrophied form of prosperity but the dream of the 'Riyasat-e-Madina' (which in reality is a glorious concept and essentially worth emulating) shall not take shape.
This clique of generals, bureaucrats, judges, industrialists, landowners, feudals, etc will never allow any form of progress in this country. And please note that by progress I mean human development and nothing else.
Regardless of what Imran Khan chooses to do (and in my own humble opinion, he is trying heroically), this system will bog him down and entangle him in its web. What is needed is a total rout - the complete bulldozing of all of these colonial remnants that have brought us into this abyss. The first to go should be the feudal system, then the judges and bureaucrats. Lastly, the generals should be reined in. Without this, 30 years from now, we will again be talking about how Imran Khan failed because 'he had a bad team'.
It would not be the team. It would be this cartel of criminals disguised as our saviors and protectors.