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Not to forget the democratic governments were always slapped with sanctions and all three military governments enjoyed great relationship with the USA. Ayub Khan was considered pro American by many analysts (true or false i am not arguing), Zia Ul Haq was needed to fight a war against Soviets and Musharraf was needed in the War on Terror. So they received billions of dollars in aid to prepare their budgets without the worry of taking loans from the rest of the world.
Political parties in Pakistan were facing tough sanction in the 90s while the military government enjoyed economic and military aid so it is not fair to compare all political parties in the same circumstances. For example the average growth rate of Pakistan has always been higher than the average growth rate of the world.
Source: World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance - Google Public Data Explorer
Even during the era of Zardari, the average growth rate of the world in 2009 was -2.33% and Pakistan posted a growth rate of positive 3.6%? If the world had a growth rate of 4.09% in 2004 then we posted 7.35% bearing in mind we were also receiving billions of dollars in aid from America and all the sanctions were already been terminated by then. If the world posted the growth rate of 1.56% in 1991, we posted a growth rate of 5.06%.
It has always been like that! - there are many other factors to keep in mind so not that easy to compare each government based on figures only.
Political parties in Pakistan were facing tough sanction in the 90s while the military government enjoyed economic and military aid so it is not fair to compare all political parties in the same circumstances. For example the average growth rate of Pakistan has always been higher than the average growth rate of the world.
Source: World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance - Google Public Data Explorer
Even during the era of Zardari, the average growth rate of the world in 2009 was -2.33% and Pakistan posted a growth rate of positive 3.6%? If the world had a growth rate of 4.09% in 2004 then we posted 7.35% bearing in mind we were also receiving billions of dollars in aid from America and all the sanctions were already been terminated by then. If the world posted the growth rate of 1.56% in 1991, we posted a growth rate of 5.06%.
It has always been like that! - there are many other factors to keep in mind so not that easy to compare each government based on figures only.