World Bank Report on Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan

World Bank and fiscal distribution

The World Bank’s latest unusually blunt report, “Strengthening fiscal federalism in Pakistan”, has been met in some quarters with a degree of angst, seen as ‘dressing down’ a sovereign country. The protestations are, however, uncalled for. Pakistan has been at the receiving end of such ‘advice’ from a number of international institutions and ‘friendly’ countries for some time now. After all, the hands that feed us all the time have some ‘right’ to execute a ‘slap on the wrist’ once in a while...

By none@none.com (Kaiser Bengali)