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Keynote Address

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9-16-2003

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I would like to congratulate the Punjab Government for taking this initiative to organize this Development Forum and thank them for inviting me to participate. It is high time that the provinces should take stock of their approach to development and poverty reduction and introduce new measures which will make the difference in the lives of their citizens. The population of this province has multiplied four times during the last fifty years rising from 20 million in 1951 to almost 80 million today. The dynamics have changed so fast that the districts of Lahore and Gujranwala divisions have a much higher population today than what the whole of Punjab had in 1951. More than one third of Punjab’s population now lives in the urban areas and rapid growth of cities and urbanization are creating economic and social stress.

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Chairman’s address at the Punjab Development Forum held on September 16, 2003 at Lahore

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