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Poverty was not the product of capitalism but it was the product of a system initiated by the middle
class based upon self interest. This self interest led to poor social conditions of the working class
Effects of Capital
Goods that enhance productivity constitute capital. Capital enhances human productivity and
therefore output.
In addition to that it facilitates specialization of labor.
Savings promotes capital.
Rate of investment is dependent upon savings.
Market was the main force for capitalization. Production was dependent upon profits, wages
and prices. Profits were maximized by reducing costs and investing in new equipment.
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In early 1760s, England emerged from a period of war abroad and agriculture depression at home
into a time of economic prosperity.
The new about this growth that it became a trend rather than a temporary spurt with no signs of
permanent slowing down.
Modernization of Britain depended on factors maturing for more than two hundred years.
Transformation of Britain depended on many elements besides new techniques and organization
forms in the manufacturing sector.
Agriculture
Men were scarce and land respondingly abundant. Landlord seeking tenants to work their fields
were force to give land on long leases and content themselves to modest rents.
The most notable mark of rationality and change was the enclosure movement. This created free
land owners from any restrictions on farming practice. They could now use their land or sell out,
try new methods or stick to the old. Agriculture in enclosed areas was more responsive to market
conditions.
Landownership still brought important social and political advantages but land structure and social
status loosened up a bit. Land became and asset among others, an investment competing with
commercial or industrial ventures, to be acquired or sold as seemed economically viable.
The result of agriculture progress and increased industrial activity was that a temporary burst of
population increase. Britain population grew from some 7.5 million in 1751 to 16.5 million in 1831
and 21 million in 185
The industrial revolution in England was favored by brisk growth of demand for the increasing
output of farms and workshops. A rising population contributed to this situation, as did the fastgrowing overseas market
Despite the existence of rich and poor, and even perhaps growing disparity between them, wealth
and income were evenly distributed compared to the structure of other countries.
Average income higher for England than for other economies. The result was the brisk demand for
kind of ordinary everyday goods the British seemed to be good at making.
In addition to agriculture there was heavy industry, mining and metallurgy in particular and also the
huge effort entailed in construction: houses, roads, canals factory building, docks.
In addition to labor economic activity requires capital. The great landowners and merchants had
large share in financing some of the biggest enterprises, especially the canals and docks that
united English market and joined it to the world.
Labor, capital, and raw material provided the ingredient for industrial production but there was an
essential human element; entrepreneurship. It was the entrepreneur's job to organize all these
factors, to assume the risk of committing resources in to hope of selling goods at a profit later, and
to manage business through teething troubles, depressions, and many conditions posed by
changing conditions. England was lucky enough to have such entrepreneurs and they varied lot in
every social and economic dimension.
The industrial revolution is synonymous with new manufacturing techniques, even though we have
seen that the story has many other aspects.
Englands's development as largely due to spate of inventions, particularly in cotton, iron, and the
use of steam.
Iron, coal and steam found their largest applications in transport and textiles, but they were also
necessary to each other.
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Roads were also built and improved but it was the railroad which put its stamp most firmly on the
industrial age
England development was more private and more autonomous than any place else. Although
government intervened at few places.
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The cotton boom after 1768, interacting with the development of heavy industry and improved
transport, propelled the British economy into a period of steady growth lasting over a century.
There seemed to be no limit to expansion.
Level of economic activity, whether measured in numbers of people employed, power of
machinery, or tons of material used, that seemed staggering compared with the past, quickly
faded into insignificance before new accomplishments.
a) Labor was released by agriculture, even more by inefficient domestic industries as they were
displaced, and by the increase of population.
b) Raw materials came from underground sources that has hardly been tapped before, or from
abroad.
c) Larger markets were provided by increased incomes and new customers at home, and by
prosperous communities blossoming in the empty temperate lands overseas
d) Capital was also plentiful; either because business profits were retained or because the new
techniques saved capital at the same time as they required investment. Capital saving came
from
i.
Efficiencies of transport and mass production
ii.
Division of labor between individuals and industries.
iii.
Progress in one industry provided not only profits in that industry, but also new
opportunities and efficiencies in others
Private initiative and private property, which put the full force of self-interest behind the market
mechanism, and which also made individuals bear the brunt of that mechanism's outcome no
matter how lavish or harsh its decisions.
How did the industrialization change the way the Englishmen lived?
There has been the perception that industrialization created misery, when it is clear that most
people went to the factories to escape worse conditions in rural industry or farming.
Despite the continued presence of poverty and its aggravations in certain cases where the winds
of change blew most harshly, the dominant social feature of industrial England was the rise of the
middle classes: in numbers, in wealth, an din power. They were the great beneficiaries of the new
abundance of consumer goods, of higher incomes, and of the many opportunities of the profitable
venture.
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The bureaucrats did act on times as entrepreneurs. At the same time there attachment with the
monarchy and landed nobility meant that they were conservatively inclined. It was in sprit of
conservatism that the state managed and supported the industrial and mining enterprise. The state
was not really concerned with growth in these sectors.
In all the German states Prussia emerged to be the most strong due to the revolutionary and
Napoleonic wars and its administration intact and able to reassert itself very quickly. Other states
disappeared or reappeared. French occupation brought revolutionary changes. This helped break old
order and business elements were strengthened and a sense of freedom in economic spheres.
Prussia after defeat underwent a controlled agrarian reforms and the beginning of a more liberal
economic policy.
Freedom of serfs helped set up ground for industrialization:
1. Free labor force
2. Integration of peasant farm and lord estate in to the market economy.
3. Personal mobility
4. Division of labor
5. Emphasis on personal achievement
This could have not been possible without agri reform.
In 18th century 2 forms of agrarian feudalism existed in Germany:
1. In West, land was cultivated by peasants, lord merely extracting dues in money or in kind.
Legal forms of serfdom and compulsory labor services had been abolished by rulers interested
in increasing taxable capacity of labors or weakening the powers of lords. French occupation
of these lands almost destroyed the feudal lords but no major redistribution of lands, so the
landlord continued deriving rent.
2. In East, cultivation was done under Lords control who employed the unfree labor of his
tenants producing a surplus for sale in the market.
There were many variations :
1. In Northwest serfdom had been abandoned centuries before and peasants had become the
hereditary tenants
2. In West and South Serfdom Lasted much linger.
3. In the center, peasant farming dominated.
4. In the east, soil was poor, population scattered and the only market far away. Here position of
the peasant detoriated after the 20 years war.
Process of agri reform tended to expose the peasant to the pressures of market forces and this
introduced a new instability into the rural life. German agri was thrown in a crisis of underproduction
and as a result many peasants in the East and West migrated to the cities.
Shock of Napoleonic wars accelerated the agri change process. In the west trends towards agri
dependent on market were increased. In the east, series of new reforms were introduced in order to
modernize the Prussian society. Peasants were allowed to purchase land.
Agri reform that began in 1807 with abolition of serfdom and became more effective in 1810 made it
possible for estates to be broken and sold. Serf families were no more bound to lord. Landowners
worried as they feared that their labor force might evaporate.
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Issue about Peasants Land held by lord in return for dues and services. Provision was made so that
peasants could retain part of their land by giving some of it to the landlord or paying 25 years rent.
This clearly benefited a few big peasants. For landlord this good
Funkers continued to do well. He had more land, cheap labor force available and was able to operate
increasingly as a large scale producer. Serfs now worked on wage labor. Large states continued to
grow. A class of substantial peasants with land holdings was created at the same time. Inheritance
laws stated that only the eldest son inherited.
With food shortages and tightening conditions migration towards cities started.
1848 Revolution
Peasants sought relief from rent, interest and mortgage payments. Peasants were not revolting the
feudalism which had already disappeared but revolt was against legal and contractual burdens which
had taken their place. Most of the revolutionaries were not interested in peasant support so the
conservatives took this chance and the peasants were granted concessions. Mostly these
concessions from Govts. Under pressure of revolts. Thus the liberals lost a chance of alliance with
peasants. Peasants became disillusioned from liberals and took whatever small benefist offered to
them.
With the advent of a better transport system supply of labor was made available to the towns and
population redistributed according to the industrial needs. Despite the pressure from below, gains
from the revolutions to the peasants were strictly controlled.
Even after 1815 there were over 30 different German states with different currencies, weights, system
of laws and customs. Industrialization in that time was based upon coal, iron and cotton. Germany
had coal and iron but her reserves were in few areas in periphery. Cotton and other raw materials
were imported. There were guilds of artisans and craftmen for supply to the rich and elite. Lack of
transport facilitated this arrangement.
French revolution quickened the pace of change. Land became a salable and thus a marketable
commodity. Markets grew, business prospered in a freer environment. Disparities between west and
rest of Germany widened.
There was no national economy in Germany. Political fragmentation, local loyalties.
Small market for artisans and peasants due to lack of transport system. Participation in world markets
was small. The small states were weak and immersed in political quarrels. Scarcity of entrepreneurs
and managers, apart from a few specialty areas. Urban middle class was weak because towns were
few in number and small in size. middle class in these towns had gravity to the professions and
service of the state.Society of this type could produce inly little investment capital.
Availability of labor supply to the industries was also limited due to the poor transport system.
Now the changes in rest of the world, especially France industrialization in England exerted huge
pressures on Germany to change. Changes initiated by Prussian administration in 1815 made the
ground more favourable for enterprise and capital investment These changes were to bring uniformity
of administration including the levying of custom duties. Tariff agreements were made with
neighboring states. From revenue collection point of view these tariffs proved to be mutually
satisfactory. Finally wider trade unions were made enabling goods to circulate freely with in Germany
and levying duty on imported goods.
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Gradually the Zollverein or German Customs Union was formed among the majority of the states of
the German Confederation in 1834 during the Industrial Revolution to remove internal customs
barriers, although upholding a protectionist tariff system with foreign trade partners. However Austria
remained away from this union as this was a Prussian creation and thus Prussia had more control.
This union proved to be a major source for promotion of economic developments by:
1. Widening the size of markets
2. Making possible free movements of goods
3. Strengthening the trade links
4. Removing difference
5. Reinforcing cultural unity
6. Vesting interests in further consolidation
In order for this to be more effective a better internal railways system was needed. Railways was
introduced. This was the beginning of awakening of economic development in German. In early years
only negatives of railways were seen, but gradually state and others started taking more interest and
encourage it. Rails grew rapidly. This bought German economy into contact with foreign countries
from where the capital came in. This capital was coming in due to the presence of huge mineral
reserviors especially iron and coal, which railway had stimulated.
Industrialization was uneven in Germany. Rapid industrialization in some areas increases the gap.
Basic reason was failure of middle class. Prussia under Bismarck conquered Austria. Under Bismarck
Germany was further united and gradually a larger middle class emerged with its balance shifting
towards business. Initially the capital needed for development came from abroad, new stock
companies were made and banks started helping the new firms. The role of banks is very important:
1. Only they had access to large funds to invest in heavy projects.
2. Provide credits to industries
Banks held parts of shares until they could be disposed off to the customers, sat in boards of creditor
companies and kept shares in their portfolios. Investment banks provided long term loans and credits
to industry. This was contrary to Britain where banks played a limited role by providing credit to only
established entrepreneurs. Also in Britain Joint stock company was not used.
Abundant labor force was utilized. Lessons learnt from foreigners were learnt quickly. Germans were
not far behind in education, they just lacked opportunities. Govt. invested more in education.
Secondary and Technical education was boasted and It became second to none in Europe. Science
based industries were emphasized.
Two sections however suffered: Artisans and guild masters.
Investment in coal mining and metal industries grew. Gradually foreign investments became small and
lead was taken from local investments. National Pride and ambition became important. Thus
Zollverein unification had worked out. Gradually economic liberalism was brought in. But heavy
industry now required protection against brits and agriculturalists now required protection against
Cheap Russian Grain. Cartels were formed. Banks helped. Railways helped.
Military and Navy was strengthened. But this might be opposed by France, UK and Russia.
Peasants managed to survive in Germany. They managed to increase productivity by new methods.
Germany remained a net exporter of agri till 1970. This is totally against what Marx and others
derived from English experience.
In some parts artisans survived, it was in fields less dependent on machinery. It was also due to the
survival of peasantry.
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Improved transportation also encouraged several brewers to enter the national market.
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United Kingdom:
- Owners retained control longer in the UK.
- Initially they had less incentive in the smaller country to exploit economies of scale
- Failing to go with this emergence of hierarchies, British industrialists lost not only the
opportunity to expand worldwide, but also British home market itself. Even in the UK, the
American firms overpowered the British competitors. This was striking in the production and
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distribution of machinery. Not only had the Americans overtaken the British. The Germans
were already dominating the synthetic dye business and the electrical machinery industry
(sharing, in this case, the supremacy with USA).
- As a result the British economy failed to reap much of the benefit of the 2nd industrial
revolution due to their family-style capitalism.
- After WWII more firms began to mimic the American style hierarchical structures.
Germany:
The Germans were big into complex machinery and chemicals, and those firms had large
managing hierarchies and overseas marketing groups. They focused on these markets because
early on they didn't have the internal consumer market like the US and UK. Their strength lied in
science-based industries where their educational system had an edge.
Japan:
- The development in Japan was slow. In the beginning of the 20th century, Japans markets
were traditional (could be compared with UK during her early industrialization) and marketing
and distribution networks were created only by a few firms
- A few enterprises had appeared, primarily in industrial machinery and particularly in electrical
machinery, this one especially important because Japan relied on it for its energy until
the1950s.
- Japan's system developed mostly after WWII, with the appearance of comparable
organizations esp. in the automobiles, radios and televisions.
- We could find two types of industrial groups in Japan by 1970: One that was descendant of the
old zaibatsu, whose central office had been closed after the war. Another that was maker of
machinery, vehicles and electrical equipment. These ones after diversifying using the western
firms example, used to spin off their different product divisions, remaining part of the group but
being considered financially independent enterprises.
Conclusion
The Americans and Germans took over world markets by creating international hierarchical
enterprises producing and distributing new products because British failed on the way to achieve
international market lack of development and exploitation of the products.
In Japan the growth of a concentrated domestic urban industrial market provided an increased per
capita income that allowed the creation of a large integrated hierarchical enterprise to exploit the
potentials of scale economies, with technological and organizational techniques used more efficiently
and effectively than Anglo-Saxons did.
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EPB
In the 1960s Koreans set up an Economic Planning Board whose working was similar to that of MITI
in Japan. It used to control the budget and decide the areas in which the industry should be promoted.
Unlike MITI, they invited the foreigners as senior partners for consultation and Planning.
Taiwan
The Japanese colonial period, Japanese rule or the Imperial Japanese occupation, in the context
of Taiwan's history, refers to the period between 1895 and 1945 during which Taiwan was a Japanese
colony. The expansion into Taiwan was a part of Japan's general policy of southward expansion
during the late 19th century.
As Taiwan was Japan's first overseas colony, Japanese intentions were to turn the island into a
showpiece "model colony". As a result, much effort was made to improve the island's economy,
industry, public works and culture.
Railway Network
The Railway Ministry (predecessor of the modern Taiwan Railway Administration) was established on
November 8, 1899, beginning a period of rapid expansion of the island's rail network.
Inflow of China mainlanders
The state emerged stronger after the inflow of Kuomintang (KMT) and the China mainlanders in 194549. Japanese trained many of the newly arrived bureaucracy.
Land Reforms
After taking the control the mainlanders introduced the land reforms because they didnt own any land
in Taiwan.
The land reforms increased the productivity of agriculture because the land went to entrepreneurial,
productive, relatively rich peasants.
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Economic Crisis
1) World depression
2) Export down
3) Financial distress
War and Nationalism
1) Govt wanted to dominate pacific region
2) Growing role of military in state affair
3) Expansion to acquire rm and mkt for goods
WW2
1) Beaten
2) Industry destroyed
Allied Occupation
1) Army dismantled
2) War plants destroyed
3) Econ distress
Zaibutsu Dissolved
1) Threat of US and USSR conflict
2) Zaibutsu need to again industilized because US wanted stronger japan against ussr
Post 1946
1) land reforms
2) many industry less owner
3) business and state closley linked
4) borrowing of technology
5) low wage rate high margin high saving
6) korean war boom and cold war boom
7) japan high quality cheap products
8) international world demand fostered exports
9) focused on innovation
10) US-Japan security treaty
11) trading companies for selling and buying
12) labour intensive outsource to cheap areas
13) avoid dependence on other countries
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collective farming. Due to war, industrial production had declined considerably and there were few
goods available to supply the peasants and to induce them to part with their surplus grain. As a result,
in 1919-20, surplus grain was requisitioned by force and peasants were forced to cultivate crops for
the govt. this caused extreme discontent among the peasants and some of them revolted in 1920.
Industrial policy during the war communism was dictated by the priority needs of the army and the
industry was controlled by a state organ called Supreme Council of national Economy (VSNKh). They
nationalized industries into trusts. Many factories were closed due to shortage of raw material and
many workers joined the newly formed red army. Other workers went back to their villages. Wages
were sometimes given in the form of products and there were cases of workers dismantling the
factories and selling the parts. This industrial decay reduced the total production in 1921 to one third
of its 1913 level.
The New Economic Policy
Due to the need for extreme economic reconstruction, the Party decided to make a compromise with
the peasants and the dynamic of market forces had to be harnessed. This caused rifts between the
party members who were bent on promoting socialism but couldnt do so in the current scenario. The
first task was to restore industry, repair the battered transport system, reestablish exchange between
country and town and win the cooperation of peasants. Only then could there be a resumption of
industrialization or any hopes of a transition to socialism. In Lenins conception if the NEP,
compromises were made with capitalists at home and concessions granted to foreign capitalists. Also,
peasants were once again allowed to produce for the market once they paid their taxes. In the first
years of NEP, there were great fluctuations in the prices of agricultural products and manufactured
goods resulting in a scissor crisis in which peasants withheld their produce from selling into the
market and refused to buy industrial goods. The only way to make the peasants part with their
produce was to make more goods at the prices they were willing to pay.
After the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin took over but his policy of socialism in one country and the
tendency towards bureaucratic control was opposed to Trotsky and his followers. These struggles
reach their height in 1927. Stalin imposed his idea of collectivization and agriculture was completely
controlled by state. Before the beginning of the five year plan in 1928, the rate of industrialization had
been mainly determined by laws of the market under conditions of private ownership. The first five
year plan bore the unmistakable stamp of Stalins methods. Enormous hardships and forced
collectivization of the food supply and other livestock products were imposed on the people. The focus
was upon quantity rather than quality and consumers had to take what was available. Stalin employed
the policy of repression to cement his place as the head of the bureaucratic stratum. He also built the
illegal police (GPU, NVKD, KGB). Labor camps became an important part of the economy, employing
millions of people on the construction sites.
Nevertheless, the Soviet planning system acquired considerable influence as a model. This was partly
because Soviet propaganda emphasized success, concealed failure and said nothing about the
forced labor camps. World depression and high unemployment led to the models acceptance by
some and also because it showed how industrialization could be achieved by planning. Also, it is
argued that industrialization could never have prospered in Russia if Stalins system was not
implemented.
The Second World War caused the loss of an estimated twenty six million Russian lives and left many
homeless. The 1939 pact with Nazi Germany put it at odds with the rest of the world. Defeat would
have been certain but for the industrial base created in the interior, far from the reach of the invaders.
The country still suffered heavy losses but the Soviet Union emerged from the war as a major world
power, stronger than ever before.
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The first post war task was to rebuild the shattered economy by giving priority to the industrial base.
The fourth Five Year Plan for reconstruction and development was then implemented from 1946
followed by another similar five year plan. Growth of heavy industry was prioritized and setting high
targets for iron and steel, coal and petroleum. This required high rate of investment and further
sacrifices on the expense of the population were made. All available hands were used and the country
was again covered by industrial sites. The country was soon in a good shape as far as
industrialization goes but the agrarian sector was still suffering. Also, the Russians were focusing on
only a few areas, neglecting others, and using old-style production technology.
Modern Soviet Industrialization
Brezhnev resumed the customary five year plan and retained the centralized character of the govt. By
the 1960s, the growth rates of Soviet Union fell to a more modest level. So, to maintain these rates,
considerable resources were channeled into investment with consumer remaining behind after military
and heavy industry. But the unlimited supply of labor was no longer available and supplies of basic
materials like coal, steel or oil were costly to obtain.
The need for labor productivity, better mechanization and organizational efficiency has become the
major constraints of the Russian economy. Russia still has to catch up with the capitalist countries in
terms of per capita income. It is still behind others in industries like computers, plastics and oil
technology. The time between 1964 and 1985 saw Russian economy suffer through near stagnation
though the standard of living improved somewhat. Military expenditure absorbed about 12-14 percent
of GNP; money that should have been spent on industrial investment to increase the output of
consumer goods. Other reasons for this faltering economic performance were the use of over
centralized, bureaucratic and irresponsible planning system of the Stalin era.
Mikhail Gorbachev took over in March 1985 and initiated a reform programme to bring changes in the
Soviet life by speeding up economic growth. To satisfy consumers, he legalized certain private and
cooperative business activities under certain limits. The modernization of older sectors of industry, the
use of new technology and venturing into new industrial sectors were some of the tasks faced by
Gorbachev. This required heavy investment and technological support from the capitalist world. So he
had a twofold task: to reform the economy while improving relation with the capitalist world.
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Despite formidable constraints and disruptions, the Chinese economy was never stagnant. Production
grew substantially between 1800 and 1949 and increased fairly rapidly after 1949.After taking power
the Chinese Communists were able to restore production and bring inflation under control in a
relatively short time. Peasants formed the mass of the people so agrarian reforms were a top priority.
Redistribution of land at the expense of landlords and rich peasants was done to create a more
uniform pattern of working peasant proprietors. A tax of 17-19% on the peasant harvest was also
levied.
The new regime took over the already existing state industries and nationalized foreign-owned
businesses. Other private enterprises of nationalists capitalists remained but were subject to state
supervision and increasing taxation. Employing the Stalinist style of planning the Chinese adopted the
policy of socialism in one country which assumed the building of a near enough self sufficient base.
This required large scale investment in industries producing means of production to provide basic
materials for industrialization like steel, coal, chemicals etc. Since the 1950s, the trend away from the
agricultural sector toward industrialization had been dramatic, and was a result of both policy changes
and free market mechanisms.
The Five Year Plan
During the 1950s and 1960s, heavy industry received most attention and consequently grew twice as
rapidly as agriculture. The administration adopted the Soviet economic model, based on state
ownership in the modern sector, large collective units in agriculture, and centralized economic
planning. The Soviet approach to economic development was manifested in the First Five-Year
Plan (1953-57). As in the Soviet economy, the main objective was a high rate of economic growth,
with primary emphasis on industrial development at the expense of agriculture and particular
concentration on heavy industry and capital-intensive technology. Soviet planners helped their
Chinese counterparts formulate the plan. The practice of one-man management and centralized
control generated some opposition within industry as they were simply not workable in many small
factories. It was also blamed for creating powerful, privileged bureaucrats. Due to Sino-Soviet
difference, once Soviet support was cut off, alternative strategies for industrialization had to be
devised. High on the agenda for economic policy was the still unsolved agrarian question. This
problem caused wide rifts among the leadership but in the end it was decided that the peasants were
to be mobilized on cooperative lines and an effort would be made to harness their loyalties towards
their collective farm instead of their family or village. Collectivization was pursued step-by-step, from
lower to higher forms of cooperation and was completed by 1957.
The Great Leap Forward
The central idea behind the Great Leap was that rapid development of China's agricultural and
industrial sectors should take place in parallel. The hope was to industrialize by making use of the
massive supply of cheap labor and avoid having to import heavy machinery. To achieve this, Mao
called for the mobilization of the entire population, starting with the great majority living I the rural
areas. The existing collectives were to be be merged into huge People's communes. Here for the first
time private plots were entirely abolished and communal kitchens were introduced. At the Politburo
meetings in August 1958, it was decided that these people's communes would become the new form
of economic and political organization throughout rural China. Astonishingly for such a dramatic social
change, by the end of the year approximately 740,000 cooperatives were regrouped into some 25,000
communes, with an average of 5,000 households each. The communes were relatively self sufficient
co-operatives where wages and money were replaced by work points. Besides agriculture they
incorporated some light industry and construction projects.
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At first, aided by favorable harvests, the new policy seemed to be a success, but in 1959 and 1960
the weather was less favorable, and the situation got considerably worse, with many of China's
provinces experiencing severe famine. Droughts, floods, and general bad weather caught China
completely by surprise. As the great leap forward ran out of steam so the methods behind it tended to
become discredited and made the Communist Party more cautious in their strategies.
The Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, unlike the Great Leap Forward, was primarily a political upheaval and did not
produce major changes in official economic policies or the basic economic model. Nonetheless, its
influence was felt throughout urban society, and it profoundly affected the modern sector of the
economy. Its aim was to revolutionize the educational system and eradicate all the vestiges of past
from the society which conflicted with the formation of the new man. Mao and his supporters made
accusations that some policies were opening roads for restoration of capitalism in China. A nationwide
propaganda campaign was launched saying that Mao has acted just in time to prevent the capital
roaders headed by Former president Liu Shaochi, from taking power.
Cultural Revolution caused an actual fall of output of up to 20%. Little new capital investment was put
I hand and the supply of consumer goods and chemical fertilizers fell back. In the early 1970s,
expansion began to be resumed on more orthodox lines. A number of new plants were built for
chemical production and steel making and the petroleum industry was developed. Corresponding
improvements were made in commune agriculture.
The New Orthodoxy
The repudiation of Maoism after 1976 meant the substitution of material incentives for revolutionary
fervor.
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The artisans and the servants were collectively called as the sepidars (a family of sepidars
attached to a particular Sahota group). Sepidars(17% of the men in the village) did other jobs
too
There were other artisans and suppliers of services too who did NOT fit into the system of
long-term personal ties based on a FIXED % of the years produce
Tenants and agricultural labourers (1/6th of the working men in the society) All were dependent
on the sahotas
Intensive agriculture (heavy usage of 29 permanent wells made with locally fired brick)
Bhaiachara villages focused on an equitable distribution of the lands
Outsiders paid for the right to cultivate land during the pre-British period
All the people needed to accept the judicial code of the Sahotas
British made the village the unit of administration rather than the estate, also made the
bhaiachara collectively responsible for collecting and paying revenue, also made absentee
ownership possible
Caste and kinship played a key role in the organization of the social, political and economic life
of the community
Land individually owned by the kin-based property groups but ultimately controlled by
bhaiachara
Customary relationships guided economic activity in the village
Not all the artisans and servants in the village were part of the system
Many of the sepidars were not much mobile and they stayed in a village for only one
generation
Agriculture was well-developed and fairly intensive. There was no uncultivated waste, a third
of the fields were double cropped, and there was substantial investment in livestock, irrigation
channels, and jointly owned brick wells
The British revenue policy suggested alter nothing and just place on record what exists. But
innovation and change resulted due to a series of decisions that the revenue officials had to
bring about. This had profound consequences. One was the crosscutting of many of the ties
between villages in an ILAQA inhabited by branches of the same clan, like the sahotas in
vilyatpur, Barapind, and the other satellite villages. So the results of the settlements in the
various districts of the Punjab were not uniform simply because they were carried out by
different officials
The notion of placing on record what exists produced changes that weakened the cohesion
of the proprietary body
The record system also created absentee landlords by making it possible for shareholders
living outside the village and newcomers who purchased land in the village to profit from their
possessions
The codification of laws resulting in a fixing of the usage, thereby drpriving it of its flexibility in
different situations
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According to the memoirs of the travelers to India, the demand for ornaments, produced in
incredible quantities were by now means confined to the rich.
Food: Neither the prices nor the social habits of the period suggest that food delicacies were for
the affluent only.
Clothing: the demand for cloth, tailored and other wise and other items of dress was substantial.
Variety rather than quality seemed to differentiate between the rich and the poor.
Saving habits: In general people had the habit to save. (Specifically the baniyas).
People spent well on their houses and therefore created demand for many different products.
The purchasing power of the people was almost five to six times than it was in 1914.
The nobles lifestyle implied a very large demand for domestic goods.
The expenditure incurred by the imperial government created enormous demand for construction
work. Road building , arms ,equipment for elephants and horses and means of transport like carts.
Textiles
The countrys lieading manufacture, cotton textile was produced probably in every part of the
country both for local consumpation and international markets.
The production of the cotton yarn appears to have been always an independent manufacturing
activity and a second occupation in weavers.
Silk: produced in begal and gujrat was exported to both Japan and Europe. Initially the raw
material was brought in from China but even China was eliminated in 17th century.
A significant development in Textile manufacture in india was the emergence of particular
processes as virtually independent manufacturing activities like bleaching, dyeing and printing etc.
Products closely linked to Agriculture
Dye stuff production
Chay and indigo dye.
Whenever there was a decline in demand, the producer of such crops quickly shifted subsistence
agriculture.
Cane sugar in all its three forms. Fine grain, powdered sugar and large crystals.
Others include oil, tobacco, opium and alcoholic drinks.
Mineral Production
Weakest area
Primary reason for technological backwardness.
But India was still self sufficient as the demand for arms and weapons suggest.
Another significant area: means of transport like ships and boats.
Comfort goods: furniture, leather goods, tailored cloth and perfume.
Mughal India had a large aggregate output. Whether it had developed tendencies to lead positive
long term change, however, is a very different question.
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The interaction of technology, the size and the character of the market resulted in a limited variety
of manufacturing orgnizations in India.
Heredity is the chief if not the only derminant of an artsans choice of trade. The family develops
naturally into a work unit and the pater familias as the master craftsman providing necessary
training and skills.
Virtually every operation connected with the production of clth developed into distinct operations.
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Indias manufacturers experienced no pressure of competition for the bulk of the production was
geared to the reciprocal arrangement of the rural caste and India enjoyed the position of a
monopolist in her export markets.
The remarkable cheapness of labor- be it the result of a genuine over supply or of a highly
oppressive system wherein a tyrannical state and an internalized set of values together kept the
producer in utter subjection- rendered labor saving devices as superfluous.
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The revenue was spent on maintaining a large army which included soldiers, stables, the horsemen,
and the cavalry. It was also spent on the lavish spending and the luxurious life style of the emperor
and his nobles. However the army couldnt be termed as a machinery of cercion, something
maintained to exploit resources. Mughal peace and a vast unified empire had a very positive
implication for the economy of the sub-continent. The army was a crucial element in the institutional
framework which sustained this empire. As the cavalry was paid at rates well above the subsistence
level, this meant adding to the market demand.
Maintaining a truly lavish life style also helped the economy in some ways. For example karkhans
were built to manufacture luxury goods. These also acted as training ground for skills. The wages of
the artisans working in these karkhanas were quite high which again added to the market demand. In
short part of the surplus extracted as revenue went to create and maintain a class of skilled servants
which in turn stimulated the demand for commodities.
Infrastructure
A part of the income was spent on the infrastructure by the emperors. The big cities like Agra, Delhi,
Lahore and the short live Fathepur Sikiri were all built by the mughals. These were not built for
economic activity rather theses were built for administrative convenience; however this activity did
help stimulate the economy.
Horticulture
The mughals also invested in other types of economic activity like horticulture. The fact that India
began to grow a variety of fruits adopted from central Asia, Iran and the new world owed much to the
aristocratic enterprise.
Trade
The mughals were also involved in both local and international commerce which helped boost
exports. They invested in vessels, ships going to the sea. However the nobles also used their
authority to corner the market which had negative implications on both trade and manufacturing. They
created monopolies of their own and forced the traders in some instances to buy goods from them, 10
15 % higher than the market. Besides this, high custom duties were also charged from traders. The
trader unlike the peasant, was, however able to exert influence through contacts, bribes etc. Hence
despite ambivalences in official attitudes, the merchant flourished while the peasant was reduced to
bare subsistence.
Fall of the Moghuls
Perhaps the most wasteful economic activity of the moghul ruling class was their practice of hoarding
up immense treasures. In the absence of investment opportunities this was the most obvious way of
amassing wealth to increase power. The resources were drawn from all parts of India and spent on
only a few big cities mentioned above and wealth was seen only in the hands of a few (the ruling
class).
It would not be wrong to say that the decline of the Moghul Empire was accompanied by a general
decline in the economy of India. War was another factor of this decline.
In short, the conclusion that the economy of the sub continent as a whole was on the decline is not
justified. The unification of the country under imperial rule had established a structure of systematic
government and a new level of security which stimulated trade, manufacturing and production of cash
crops.
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The capitalist mode of production and social political order provided impetus to expansion in
productivity despite disturbances.
Despite this increased productivity the benefits could not reach the masses whose living standards
remained poor.
However, it connected these nations with the marketable commodities and vagaries of world
market from a self sufficient agro economy.
It took these people from servitude of land lords to tensions of market economy and compounded
exploitation.
Now these people worked for foreign businessmen who owned the capital and machines.
As these people could not assert themselves, they began to opt for values and culture of these
foreigners. What resulted was and economic and political amalgam combining the worst features
of both worlds-feudalism and capitalism- and blocking effectively all possibilities of economic
growth.
Since population is growing consistently, more products were needed to keep up with their needs
and maintain proper living standards.
To meet these needs, a better utilization of resources was needed to produce more. This called
for more investments in the industry as well as better use of human capital.
Since the income was distributed unevenly, there were segments with higher incomes which could
spend lavishly as well as segments which lived from hand to mouth and could meet only their
survival needs.
Continuous development of industry required investment of capital. As far as the rich class of
landlords was concerned, they had to meet extensive expenses of their large estates and
extravagant living. The second class of rich people was the big businessmen who also lived a
lavish life. Consequently, the savings left for investments in industry were up to a limit only.
An industry grows only when there is sufficient market for its goods. Since majority of the people
living in underdeveloped countries were poor, they could not spend on luxury items and were
limited to mainly food items only. This casued agriculture to grow but manufacturing industry could
not because of limited need for luxury items. Those who were rich began to import these luxury
items while agricultural produce was the only exportable item.
Also to make agriculture profitable, its large scale production is needed. The capital requirement
for such a large scale production was beyond the scope of these small capitalists so they were
once again at the loosing end.
Similarly, development in industry requires the presence of a compatible infrastructure including
roads, train, electricity, water, sanitation, telecom and transport. Since such a basic infrastructure
was absent or not up to requirement, the industry could not grow. Even the amount needed to
develop such an infrastructure was beyond the scope of these capitalists so it remained backward.
Governments in these countries can play a significant role in building industries by using their
fiscal and governing policies. Through the use of taxation, uneven distribution of wealth can be
minimized and enough savings can be generated. Similarly, infrastructures can be developed,
industry supporting policies like exchange rate controls and price controls can be implemented to
build better industrial environments. What the combination of these measures would accomplish is
a radical change in the structure of effective demand and reallocation of productive resources to
satisfy societys need for economic development.
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High income
Middle income
Low income
World icome
67%
18
15
World pop.
18
15
67
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In April 1947, it was decided that Calcutta will be in Indian territory, this resulted in flight of capital to
India from Sindh and Punjab. Under these circumstances, Birla argued that affect of partition will be
minimal to Hindu businesses and thus favored partition.
Patel was influential in changing the policy of congress and he wanted a strong central government
which he can control.
Big business also were afraid that in a coalition government league and congress may turn out to
have anti business policies.
Businesses were influential in deciding the fate of Calcutta but this wasnt the case when it came to
Punjab.
Muslims businessmen who came to Pakistan benefitted more than there counterparts who left
Pakistan. Indian textile faced problem because of loss of market share and the jute factories had
problem of getting enough raw material.
The problems that were faced by business after partition were due to unequal development of industry
during the colonial period.
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Sikandar-Jinnah pact
Jinnah tried for coalitional and Skindar hyat and Fazl-ul-haq gave Jinnah support in Punjab and
Bengal.
Skindar supposedly criticized congress not due to its stance but rather to get the support of British
Unionist stated that the pact has no effect on the current status of parties in assembly but although
Muslim unionist will be asked to obtain the league membership but in future elections league will
have to join the unionist in the assembly
Iqbal was not happy with situation and asked removal of 28 unionist party member from the
league for their activities. This added friction b/w PML and PNUP
Skindar tried to get the control of the PML to stop AIML from spreading in the Punjab. Skindar
tried to remove PML sectary Ghulam Rasul and replace him with Nawabzada Khurshid but Iqbal
refused
Iqbal got ill and died and Nawabzada Khurshid got control of PML. He started using PNUP cause.
Cancelation of Lahore as a venue of 1938 AIML session was one evidence.
By March 1938 AIML PML had to submit a full account of their branches and office bearers for
affiliation with AIML. Skindar get threatened when there was no PNUP member in the 90 members
suggested. Liaquat Ali khan supported him as his brother was land lord and unionist MLA.
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Jinnah resolved this by reconstituting the PML 35 member committee which represents both sides
of the groups but it had 35 PNUP members. Jinnah gave full control to Skindar of AIML.
This has its implications league message was popular in urban areas but Unionist party stopped
its spread in rural areas.
Skindar Federal scheme of 1939 of provincial autonomy was in contradiction to Jinnahs stand and
he publically criticized it.
Landed elite joined AIML due to strong support it was getting with the idea of Pakistan.
PUNP leadership under khizar hyat was not strong enough he was a land lord which represented
British interest and infighting in PNUP also effected these defections.
Jinnah wanted to form coalition with non Muslim under umbrella of AIML not under Unionist part
and Khizar rejected that and pact broke.
When 1946 came many PNUP members were now AIML members and thus now PML is
dominated by landed elite.
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Reasons:
Strong power acquired over centuries
General strengthening of landlords of which pirs were one category
Took part in politics first through local boards and then direct representative politics. They played
influential roles in elections to legislative bodies.
Ghulam M bhurgi dominant political figure exploited the ties of Piri Muridi to remain in power.
Separation from Bombay presidency in 1936: New legislative assembly.
1937 elections: increased influence of aristocracy in politics. Party played no role in the elections,
basically the alliances with waderas and jagirdars determined the results. This intensified the
support of Pirs for the candidates.
Until 1930 Muslim league didnt emerge as a leading force. Lessons: closely involve in the local
politics.
1938 League organization activity: earned the support of pirs and sajjada nashins and syeds.
40 branches of league were formed and 15000 members enrolled. Joined by Hidayatullah and GM
Syed who had close influence among Pirs and syeds.
Muslims didnt take the anti British stance since they had to earn the support of establishment
Pirs
highlighted the Masjid Manzilgarh incident to promote its support for pirs
ML had some ups and downs due to clashing self interest of its members over ministry seats
ML session in Khi 1943 fight for power b/w pirs and mirs continued.
Against Punjabis settled in sindh and sindhi hindus. They had the feeling that they were
dominated by the outsiders.
Trader and merchant community largely consisted of Hindus
Role of Hindu Bania: Rural indebtedness
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Landed Aristocracy
Emergent Middle Class
Effect:
Distinction between Sindhi Hindu and Muslim Community sharpened at the time when
communal issues were becoming more important.
Due to the migration of Hindus vaccum was created in trade and commerce.
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No political party in the NWFP. AIML never came to establish itself and Khudai Khidmatgar
party of congress was ruthlessly suppressed.
Till 1901 NWFP was part of Punjab but it was separated for control issues at Afghanistan
border
NWFP remained poor and underdeveloped. 90% Muslims mostly in rural areas with Hindus and
Sikhs mostly merchant class and urbanized and educated
Mostly Pashtuns with tribal society. Based on clans and tribes with no central authority but
leaders like khans and maliks. They had influence rather then power. Decisions were made in
jirgas. No stratification on the bases of wealth, status and power
Under British most areas remained unchanged due to inaccessibly. accessible areas became
feudal system based
Khans and maliks represent government now rather then the people to collect revenue. They
were given land for their service to the government. British dint tried to change the social
structure of khans so that they may remain loyal to the government.
Khans gained power with the links with government and land which were awarded for the
services by the government.
Tribal areas remained unchanged. Tribal areas were immune to changes as there were no
reforms for those areas.
Religion played a great rule in the society and mullahs were inactive but very sensitive to any
treat against Islam
Pirs were also land owners and hereditary symbols of power and had large influence over
people.
Hindus which were educated and were either retired form he civil services were active the
urban politics
Congress didnt had much support until Abdul ghaffar joined in. his Khudai Khidmatgar had
objective of complete independence from British Hindus and Muslims. Khudai Khidmatgar were
also called red shirts which they used as uniform
Khudai Khidmatgar was a Pashtuns nationalist movement closely related to INC with Ghaffar
close ties with Gandhi
Khudai Khidmatgar strong in rural areas but weak in urban , north and south of the province
Khudai Khidmatgar has strong following with small khans
I like the way the you sing along , I like the way you always get along I like the way you clap
your hands, I like the way you shake your hair, but most of all yeah I like the way you move..
tattatattttttahahantttthaann (enjoy) so to hell with all.
Khudai Khidmatgar and INC have same anti British agenda or else they were very different.
In 1937 INC won 19/50 seats with 21 independent Muslim candidates. AIML had no seats
Big khans were deserted by the INC so they came to AIML.
1942 quit India movement didnt get any importance in NWFP. Many of the INC leaders were
arrested and Inc found itself leaderless.
AIML made ministry with e help of governor which it kept till 1945 (INC ministry resigned after
WW2 started)
In 1946 INC shoed that it is still strong as it won 30 seats and AIML only 17 seats.
AIML was strong in non Phaethon areas, INC vice versa
Pakistan issue after 1946 became important and people started switching parties. They shifted
due to religious reasons as well as opportunities that see once Hindus and British leaves
Pir manik Sharif was a counterbalance for Abdul Ghaffar as he has many followers in Peshawar
areas who were Pashtuns and also in the tribal areas that persuaded them to vote for Pakistan.
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Nehru on his visit to province received hostile reception. AIML was blamed for this.
Referendum was held to see if people wanted to join Pakistan or India
51% total people voted and 99% of them voted for Pakistan
Abdul Ghaffar wanted to add one more option of independence but no one agreed and NWFP
came to Pakistan (hurray)
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Ahmed Aslam, Faisal Iftikhar, Irfan Abbasi, Khizar Khan, Muddassar Nazar, Musfiqur, Naveed Khokar, Qasim Khan,
Rabia Zia, Saad Aziz, Saad Farooq, Sadaf Latafat, Talha Ahmed, Umer Khalid, Usman Ali, Zeeshan Shehzad
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Both rural and urban poor discontent with the distribution of resources in the 60s.
Displacement of labor forces from agriculture and lack of employment generation by the industrial
sectors adds more trouble.
The notion was that the industrialist grew at the cost of industrial labor and rural poor. Along with
them the professional class and the small business class also agitated against the Ayub regime.
Economic deprivation in East Pakistan results in massive movement and separation seems
eminent.
1970 elections Mujib wins majority but assembly was not formed and military option pursued. Dec
1971 East Pakistan get separated.
ZAB becomes chief Martial Law Administrator and then thru 1973 sontitution becomes PM.
Labor Policies
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Big Export Incentives were provided in 75-76 in the form of tax concession.
Impact
Public Administration and defense grows rapidly.
Large Industries grow at 2% compared to 12% in the 60s.
Private sector in Large Industries down to 22% in 77 from 95% in 71.
Businessmen relocated their firms in middle east and Europe.
Financial market becomes shallow.
Aid commitments declined drastically.
Agriculture
Impact
Food shortage and high price of food items.
Import bill for food items rises.
Subsidies on Agri input increased by 5 fold.
Cotton export suspended for some time.
Textiles
Other Reforms
Bureaucracy
Bhutto tried to cut down the power of Admin, He sacked 1300 officials on charges of corruption.
Employment rules were changed through the constitution in 1973 giving more power to Govt.
Recruitment policies were also changed to break the closely knit Admin.
Education - Institutes were nationalized, reduction of salaries of academicians, student politics and
unions.
Health - There were good plans to improve rural healthcare systems and research hospitals but it
wasnt implemented. Generic medicine scheme was introduced, banning the medicine brands.
Cabinet - Leftist cabinet who helped PPP in the 1970 manifesto were replaced.
Others Nuclear Power plants
Lowari tunnel
Indus river highway
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Ahmed Aslam, Faisal Iftikhar, Irfan Abbasi, Khizar Khan, Muddassar Nazar, Musfiqur, Naveed Khokar, Qasim Khan,
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Ahmed Aslam, Faisal Iftikhar, Irfan Abbasi, Khizar Khan, Muddassar Nazar, Musfiqur, Naveed Khokar, Qasim Khan,
Rabia Zia, Saad Aziz, Saad Farooq, Sadaf Latafat, Talha Ahmed, Umer Khalid, Usman Ali, Zeeshan Shehzad
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Industries
Agriculture
Agri share of GDP decreased from 31% to 26%, share of exports declined from 33% to 20%;
Expenditure declines from 20% to 8% of total government expenditure.
Textile
Cotton textile accounted for 60% of exports;
Cotton yarn production grew at 7% annually, cloth production grew at 3%
Raw cotton production decreased by 33% due to crop virus;
Utilisation rates dropped from 86% to 72% for spindles and 53% to 36% for looms;
Inability to move into higher-value added textile, lack of integrated approach between growers,
spinners, weavers, manufacturers.
Sugar
Increase in number of mills from 45 (with a capacity of 1.26m Tons) to 78 (capacity 5m tons);
Utilisation rate decreased from 100+ to 45%
Pakistan is the 4th largest grower of sugarcane, though the climate is not suited for the crop
Credit channeled towards this sector because of Nawazs family business
Domestic sugar expensive than international sugar
Economy
Deregulation
Banking Number of financial institutions doubled, but massive corruption and defaults
Open Sky Policy Allowed six new airlines to enter but only 2 remained
Telecom Mobile operators entered, PTCL started with its cellular and ISP service
Power Generation, Construction, Shipping Investors allowed to hold 100% equity
Foreign Accounts
Foreign currency deposits jumped from $3b to $7b
Loan Defaulters
Increase in default amount from Rs.80b to Rs.300b
Worst-hit lending institutions were national banks and development financial institutions (DFIs)
Bad loans as percent of total loans were 23% at DFIs, 28% at national banks, 13% at private.
Severely hampered privatisation of banking sector.
Stock Market
Removal of restrictions on foreign investment of Pakistani shares and repatriation of gains and
dividends.
Market capitalisation increased five-fold
Stock index crashed due to growing fiscal deficits and foreign exchange crisis
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Privatisation
Benazir Bhutto
Nawaz Sharif
Plans
14 units
115 units
Major
Plans
Remarks
Pet Projects
Nawaz Sharif
1. Motorway
Vision of all-Pakistan North-South motorway from Karachi to Torkham
Contract with South Korean Daewoo for Lahore-Islamabad M2 Motorway
Contract with Turkish Bayinder for Islamabad-Peshawar M1 Motorway
Caretaker govt. abandoned M1 project and scaled down M2 to 4-lanes instead of 6-lanes.
M2 project completed 3years after deadline, with a 50% loan from Daewoo
2. Yellow Cab
Aimed at reducing unemployment by providing soft loans to import duty-free vehicles for taxis.
Banks will provide 90% of vehicle costs while 10% will be paid by borrower
Programme was abused with over Rs.35b in loans and over 50% as default
Luxury cars, coaches, heavy vehicles were imported under the programme.
Benazir Bhutto
1. Power Policy
High rates of economic growth, rapid urbanisation, increased mechanisation of agri forced
electricity consumption to quadruple.
Private sector power generation were invited, 19 IPPs were awarded to produce 3.4GW
As economy slowed down, critics felt she had overcommitted investment in power sector
Incentives to private power generation included exemptions from tax, customs duties and
guaranteed prices, payments on unused capacity.
Tariffs tripled for usage of 1000kWh, WAPDA and KESC found it difficult to pass costs on.
Nawaz asked IPPs to reduce tariffs and issued letters of termination, HUBCO went to Intl
Court of Arbitration for help.
IPPs accused structural problems at WAPDA for high tariffs, like overstaffing, high line losses.
2. Social Action
Designed by World Bank in 1992
Aimed at improving primary education, healthcare, family planning, water supply, sanitation
Aimed at recruiting, training, educating and assigning more women in rural areas
Assistance from World Bank, ADB and other multinational agencies.
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ii) Punjab based artisanal and service castes (Chinioti Shaikh, Kakezai & Malik) involved in
leather trade/tanning (due to Hindu aversion), which later became the backbone of countrys
business especially in cotton and textile value chain.
Other sources of entry in business
i) through agrarian hierarchy - peasantry & smaller landlords
ii) Large landlords - agro processing primarily for subsidized loans/incentives. (made exit by
selling business or by using political connection to reschedule/write-off non-performing loans and
hence failed to play a major role in business.
iii) Through careers in state service, both civil and military, which became corrupt over time due
to lack of effective measures and resulted in outflow of black money abroad ($30billion) &
partially in business. Increased foreign aid & loans (1980s) made them evident in politics.
Business groups & their roles: Since 1947, certain business groups given incentives through
state policy to promote industrialization, but due to lack of resources, specially foreign exchange,
and the decision of not to follow India in devaluation of currency did not help exports, made
imports cheaper to encourage inflow of capital goods. Import of consumer goods was curtailed
though higher tariffs. Korean War boom in addition to subsidized project finance, protective
tariffs, market monopolies and price controls over raw materials (especially raw cotton) resulted
in transition from mercantile to industrial capitalism. Major investments were in cotton textile &
consumer goods due to short lead time & less capital requirements. By 1960s famous twentytwo families emerged (as a result of wealth concentration thru incentive based investment policy).
Strength in cotton textile, with diversification in banks, insurance companies, etc. Public sector
disinvestment in industrial projects led to industrial concentration. hardly incentivized SMEs.
Ayub & PPP: Bazaar sector emerged; Labor unions were suppressed, little progress in real
wages. Business elites connivance with military rule to gain major economic advantages, but
failed to form alliance with agrarian order, SME sector & working class. Agro-growth stagnated
since 1950s. PPP: Fall of Ayubs Regime after demonstration, election, and break-up of country.
Bhutto (PPP) takes over based on elections.
Highlights: Use of foreign exchange from East Pakistan (jute) to finance Pakistans
industrialization resulted in Bengali nationalism. Loss of control over cotton prices (favored
industrialists, resentment in agro sector. Green revolution (benefits to large/medium farmers by
access to farm mechanization, input subsidies & softer credit terms). Weaker tenant rights &
ineffectiveness of land reforms created resentments in cultivators, middle and upper peasantry.
Large landowners threatened by growth of emergent business families. Bhutto, as a result
nationalized large scale private sector in 1970s (banks, insurance companies & industries
(engineering, auto, chemical, cement and oil) leaving only cotton textile. Plants placed under
state corporations, weakening big business groups and deterring investment in private sector in
1970s till 1980s. Investment made primarily in public sector. Tycoons sought business abroad.
Beneficiaries of this downturn in private sector: Board of Industrial Management created, to keep
a distance between bureaucracy & managerial technocrats. Dissolution of board (by Zia) led to
transfer of power to bureaucracy (thru ministries), increasing corruption & declining private
business.
The states intervention policies went beyond the takeover of large scale industry & financial
sector; even nationalized major parts of agro processing sector (Rice, flour, and edible oil) to
appease large landlords, destroying rural agro trade & business). Public managers dominated
agrarian trade & exports & largely malpractice. As a result the trading community withheld its
support for PPP, and actively opposed in 1977 agitation, resulting in denationalization of agro
processing units in Zias era. Larger business completely ceased to develop into corporations
with diversified portfolios & deep managerial hierarchies. Most of them relapsed to med sized
family operations, (No growth in capital intensive & technologically base (electronics, computer&
IT, till 1980s). In 1980s, Zia made effort to attract investment (legalize black money), but failed.
1985: investments pickup (older business groups & public position holders) but only in agro
processing (yarn & sugar). Some business groups gained access to loans from nationalized
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banks, able to accumulate industrial assets rapidly and even enter politics (in Punjab). The
Karachi based business groups refrained from politics, due to lack of business confidence,
Muhajir movement (MQM) & serious law and order problems.
1990s: Privatization, (small industrial units - not extensive industries and utilities), was
undertaken in 1990s. Investment climate weaken in second half of 1990s, due to rise of price of
local raw cotton, (cotton textile industry became uncompetitive), an economic crisis among
Pakistans East Asian trading partners (major buyer of yarn), 1998 nuclear explosions (freezing of
foreign currency & erosion of business confidence), fears of religious prejudice, poor law
enforcement, continuous Indian hostility in Kashmir, inept public management & financial
malpractice, rise of foreign debt (beyond $30 billion), severe local taxation, and finally economy in
deep depression by the end of 1990s. Business investments: Overly leveraged and
underfinanced projects (Low equity and Disproportionate interest rates) resulted in accumulation
of non-performing loans and large number of sick units. Kickbacks, overly invoiced foreign
machinery, rescheduling of loans, instigation of numerous legal actions, led to flight of capital
abroad. The effective resistance of defaulter to any accountability process reflects the weakness
of legal and judicial system and the strength of politico rental mechanism. Deinstitutionalized
environment suits due (SME) but make it difficult to transit to corporate structure.
Reasons for setbacks: tax evasion, black economy, insufficient supply of quality managers (low
compensation), separate projects rather than divisionalized entities, nature of manufacturing
process in Pakistan (Cotton textile, fragmented & lacks in economies of scale), family based
equity hindered horizontal integration. Public limited Co. primarily for subsidized loans. Individual
business/groups benefit through access to state functionaries. Bazaar or informal sector collude
for tax evasion. Weak efforts by business to develop political institutions/effective institutional
reforms. 1990s recession, and links between business & bureaucracy seriously depleted states
revenue generating capacity leading to fiscal deficits, diluting contribution of public finance to
national development. Fiscal stability (by curtailing state expense) not seriously attempted;
indicating states unwillingness & incapacity to control crises.
Unequal resource distribution had been enjoyed by the business & state functionaries. In short
term, lack of systems facilitates the elite in Pakistan.
In long term, it could deprive country of a gaining a favorable economic positioning.
Ahmed Aslam, Faisal Iftikhar, Irfan Abbasi, Khizar Khan, Muddassar Nazar, Musfiqur, Naveed Khokar, Qasim Khan,
Rabia Zia, Saad Aziz, Saad Farooq, Sadaf Latafat, Talha Ahmed, Umer Khalid, Usman Ali, Zeeshan Shehzad