Re:The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan
by dash2 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:34AM
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Interesting. This is almost exactly out of Daron Acemoglu's paper "Why is there no political Coase theorem?" His story is that inefficient policies persist because elites fear losing power of they implement efficient ones. Got any illustrative anecdotes?
Re:The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan
by selimthegrim on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:23AM
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As a Pak- American, I was pretty upset when Yousuf Raza Gilani said at a press conference (when he was PM) if people didn’t like Pakistan what was stopping them from leaving. He clearly wasn’t thinking of these guys. I think that movie Zinda Bhaag was made in response.
Re:The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan
by vermontdevil on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:08AM
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And they have nuclear bombs
Re:The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan
by selimthegrim on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:24AM
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That’s a little overblown- they’re kept disassembled and have PALs that the Americans know the code to
Re:The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan
by briandon on Thursday December 26, 2019 @01:54PM
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Wikipedia, which of course is not infallible, says that Pakistan rejected US offers to share PAL technology but is believed to have developed their own equivalent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_d...
Bonded kiln labourers are one thing, but there are also a lot of bonded land labourers.
Were there any opportunity to make money with labour, things would've changed. See, now if those people were to run away, even then they would have little opportunities to make money elsewhere.
Country is knee deep in trade and financial sanctions around the world thanks to India (try sending a wire there from a Western nation, and you will be up for an amazing adventure.) That's not the only impediment to doing exports.
You have to add to this that the elites there a very conscious that if the industrialisation will "hit the fan" it will hit the fan on them. Some are working quite actively to lobby against industrialisation, and trying to sabotage it with passive-aggressive style resistance.