Pakistan's Economic Growth without Development: What we learn from China?

Byline: Urooj Aijaz

Thirty years back, when China starts its transition phase we observe inexplicable growth of China where they are beating the expectations. No Country has ever managed to pull 70 million nationals out from vicious circle of poverty accompanied with the growth rates of more than 10%. None managed to expand its economic pie with the multiple of 42 that is from $305 billion-$12.7 trillion but this Chinese growth has a social and cultural side. Deng Xiaoping is the person who acted as the catalyst to intensify the growth targets so since that time, a shared work ethic is etched in the Chinese mind, ably perpetuated and supported by those who govern. This kind of ethic works well in unison with the aim of enhancing capacity to perform and grow while the responsibility of long-term goals has never come at the expense of the private sector in China.

The inexplicable growth is also the result of restructuring of the Chinese bureaucracy as, from 1982 and 1984 almost 70% of local administrators were changed with a young and educated people who are expected to have a better vision of the future which propagates ownership of reforms at local level. If we evaluate the civil services across the world than it is concluded with the fact that Chinese civil services ranked on top as it follows the structure that, only best are promoted which will bring huge competition to perform better unlike the hereditary system in Pakistan and these changes are the root cause of ownership of reforms. Civil services at China is the competitive service in the world with the best structure of hiring and promoting the best ones and they are only working on ideas which will make them superior than other nations. Chinese Government always believe in the fact that long term is not possible by only relying on private sector but the institutional mechanism facilitate the private sector to be the part of growth and when it is combined with efficient local governance than it trickle down to the bottom levels as well.

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