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Pakistan’s popular economic discourse has been rightly focused on short-run problems. Will we be able to end load-shedding in the country? Will the IMF agreement cause more hardships than benefits to the people? Will the inflation rate begin to rise again? Will the rupee keep on tumbling? These are legitimate questions that need to be addressed. The government of the day also devotes its attention towards these problems as the test of their success lies in finding solution to these issues.

Neglected due to this pre-occupation with short-term problems are the issues that will impinge upon the future of this country. If we do not initiate decisive actions now we are sure to never find a place on a path of sustainable growth and development. In the last several decades many countries in Asia that lagged behind have overtaken us and regional countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal now threaten us.

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The News

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9-23-2013

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1-3

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