I generally agree with @Indos here. Long term thinking is required by IK.
I also realize that corruption in South Asia is if anything a “democratic” feature. The most liberal, tolerant and educated country in South Asia happens to be Sri Lanka. Also the most corrupt. For all intensive purposes, neither India or Bangladesh truly fit the bill for a democracy anymore anyways.
Yet the not so democracies can grow because they are somewhat insulated from political economy considerations. They price commodities somewhat more reasonably than Pakistan and Sri Lanka although all of South Asia does a poor job at it.
It’s also not fair to think that there is corruption in India / India can grow/ so corruption in Pakistan is not an issue. India and Pakistan are vastly different in their political structures. India has regional ethnic politics in a country where no ethnicity region has a simple majority. So a national party forms a coalition in the center. In Pakistan, the only real national party is PTI. If a family party comes to power in center, they are able to do unlimited damage and have done so. They break the very idea of Pakistan and national cohesion.
Over time, they have also slowly gangrened all institutions so that the productivity of neutral institutions have failed. Take our bureaucracy and how quotas are in place to stop meritocracy. Now the bureaucracy is incompetent and lazy. Or how the army likes to have these corrupt PDM types so that it can continue its own eating of the pie. Yeah, this is not the case for other countries in South Asia. In Pakistan, we have too many people eating the pie.
I also realize that corruption in South Asia is if anything a “democratic” feature. The most liberal, tolerant and educated country in South Asia happens to be Sri Lanka. Also the most corrupt. For all intensive purposes, neither India or Bangladesh truly fit the bill for a democracy anymore anyways.
Yet the not so democracies can grow because they are somewhat insulated from political economy considerations. They price commodities somewhat more reasonably than Pakistan and Sri Lanka although all of South Asia does a poor job at it.
It’s also not fair to think that there is corruption in India / India can grow/ so corruption in Pakistan is not an issue. India and Pakistan are vastly different in their political structures. India has regional ethnic politics in a country where no ethnicity region has a simple majority. So a national party forms a coalition in the center. In Pakistan, the only real national party is PTI. If a family party comes to power in center, they are able to do unlimited damage and have done so. They break the very idea of Pakistan and national cohesion.
Over time, they have also slowly gangrened all institutions so that the productivity of neutral institutions have failed. Take our bureaucracy and how quotas are in place to stop meritocracy. Now the bureaucracy is incompetent and lazy. Or how the army likes to have these corrupt PDM types so that it can continue its own eating of the pie. Yeah, this is not the case for other countries in South Asia. In Pakistan, we have too many people eating the pie.