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Conversations on issues of development policy in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia. Political economy subjects that are seldom featured in the media will be taken up.
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Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018
Dr. Ishrat Husain is a leading economist, who has played many important roles both in policy and academia.
Today we discuss a subject on which he has been very passionate—civil service reform. He led the National Commission on Government Reform in Musharraf’s time and has recently written a book called “Governing the Ungovernable”.
He has important ideas on institutions, governance and civil service reform. In the coming days the new government might even use his ideas to implement their much-awaited reform.
There a number of research and writing themes that emerge in this podcast. So please listen and further the debate.
Listen to this and let us reinvigorate research and debate into change.
Listen to this fascinating discussion. There is much to learn and research here.
You can also look at my book “Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger in 2050” now available in hard copy in Pakistan here http://www.libertybooks.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Nadeem%20ul%20haque&category_id=0Soft copy here. https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Pakistan-Became-Asian-ebook/dp/B06X94135J/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488133596&sr=1-1&keywords=nadeem+haque
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Saturday Aug 25, 2018
Dr. Ishrat pointed that he formed a subsidiary (cooperation) in SBP for lower cadre employees on high compensation packages and it worked. I want to mention that ZTBL has done the same and formed kisan support services limited for doing the same, but it was only used by the executives and politicians to employee people of their choice. Second thing was ZTBL introduced new service regulation for officers, some opted for it and other did not. Now the organization have two service structures, one with the pension benefits and seniority base promotions and other with no pension benefits and competetion based promotions. ZTBL had an implementation failure. I think just copying the policy of one institution cannot work for the other if the head and the members of the board have no conviction for its implementation, rather they start using it for their own benefits.
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
If IK doesn't use the services of Dr Ishrat Hussain he will be doing a great disservice to Pakistan.
Friday Aug 17, 2018
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