Framework for Economic Growth, Pakistan - Planning Commission

International conference on “Framework for Economic Growth, Pakistan”process. That requires much work to bedone.The new economics has emerged in the last three decades andhopefully what this conference is trying to do is to bring the neweconomic literature broadly under the roof of institutional economicsto develop a fresh perspective and fresh growth strategy….Question: Do you think that the potential of large number of young people has been included andaddressed in the strategy?Answer: I don’t call it a new strategy. Butone of the new points of this conference isparticipation of youth and focus on them.The strategy is more a set of questionswhich have been raised. It is an abstractoutline and a fresh terrain of thinking of neweconomies. Thus the conference alsorecognizes the demographic structure i.e.young people. Any strategy being givenmust give direction to the youth as well asopportunities and to undertake them in theprocess having high wage employment,productivity etc. Youth must be given aleadership role in the strategy presented.***InterviewParticipantQ: Would you say that it is a new strategy or a revised growth strategy?Answer: I would say that the part of thisstrategy is revised and rest is a very newstrategy presented, especially the part of thedocument referred about youth andemployment. We need to visualize economyin such a way that the youth are madeparticipative in whole economic activity.That is the new thing or I would say a newparadigm in FEG.Q: Are you looking at the strong potential of the youth, and you think that they have beeninvolved in conceiving such strategy and being involved in the thinking process?Answer: Honestly speaking if the new ideasabout youth are implemented we can bringsomething good for them, apart from givinggood education. I think that the youth havetremendous potential, much more than us. Ifyouth are given the due importance which isthe requirement of the 21 st century then I amsure whole economy, system andgovernance would be changed. Our youthshould be given a chance to outwardly think104