June 28, 2004Foreign Affairs

Asian Tiger or basket case?

The Pakistani economy cannot take off without fundamental socio-political changes

This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.

Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan’s Prime Minister-in-waiting wants to make Pakistan an Asian Tiger. The Acorn thinks it will remain a basket case unless there are profound changes for which institutional democracy is an important pre-requisite.

Being proved wrong will be a happy outcome.



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