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ndustrial OPTION i ©RAD Federation ?Water & Power Gas? & Petrol Law? & Order ?Food Role of Chambers of Commerce in Effecting Change - Page 11 “How India backed-out from its preemptive Media & War Campaign against Pakistan” Industrial Option Monthly is publihsed from 23-KM, Lahore An Idiot’s Guide to Campaigns - Page 34 Sheikhupura Road and Printed by MITHAS Enterprises Press, Kamal Road, Kamal Gunj Lahore. “You cannot be big unless you are prepared to kiss the ground. You cannot defend the soil unless you know the smell of that soil. I know the smell of our soil. I know the rhythm of our rivers. I know the beat of our drums. The theories, the dogmas and the scripts stand outside the gates of history. The domi- nant factor is the aspiration of the people and the ability to seek total identification with it. Once the significance of the symphony is grasped, the lines fall into place, the dogmas and theories get legs Golden Words of to move in time to the maj- esty of that music. This does Bhutto - Today & not mean that I am preaching pragmatism. There is a lot of Forever expediency in pragmatism. I am trying to trace the roots of the problems, the genesis of the challenges, the cause of the struggle” Mandiali Paper Mill (Pvt.) Ltd. Industrial Option January 2009 | industrialoption.com Table of Contents 5 - Help youself and row to the shore: 24 - Global Food Crisis: A Bowl of Opportunities SCCI’s vision for new generation for Muslim World 6 - Editorial 27 - Why Should I get Education? The Presidency and Bureaucratic system 28 - Survival Tips for Managing 11 - Role of Chambers of Commerce in Effect During an Economic Downturn ing Change 30 - Pakistan Timeline An organizational reform proposal for FPCCI based on Chambers 34 - How India backed-out from Power Model its preemptive Media & War 14 - Energy Profile of Pakistan Campaign against Pakistan” 20 - Pakistan’s energy crisis: short An Idiot’s Guide to Campaigns and long-term solutions 38 - News & Views Trade Ordinance 2007 The Tap Opener Commerce Division FPCCI Chambers Associations Trade Policy Information Sharing... Courtesy Sheikhupura Association of Industry (SAI) chambers Sheikhupura Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) database associations information public trade Growth economy public Stop Ignoring Sheikhupura We need to Develop a Society based on Dialogue instead of violence and pressure. Motorway? Road Network? Banks? Police Civil Society Liasion? Laborers Colonies? Poverty? Vocational Training? Industrial Facilitation? Education? Heritage? Agriculture? Mughal Steel (Pvt.) Ltd. Industrial Option January 2009 | industrialoption.com Help yourself and row to the shore: SCCI’s Vision for New-Generation Poverty is multidimensional, involving not only a lack of income, but also ill-health, illiteracy, lack of access to basic social SCCI Helps you by all means services, and little opportunity to partici- pate in the processes that influence peo- ple’s lives. It is also pervasive, as 1.2 billion people around the globe still live on less than a dollar a day and nearly 850 million people go hungry every night. Poverty reduction should therefore be the centre of development efforts. SCCI’s work on the strategies and poli- cies for poverty reduction is anchored in three basic principles: the multi-dimen- sionality of poverty, the centrality of gen- der equality and the critical importance of a cross-cutting approach. We believe that economic growth is necessary for sustained poverty reduction, but it is not sufficient. Poor people should not only benefit equitably from economic growth, they should have the opportunity to ac- tively contribute to its generation. Equity is a major dimension of the economic growth-poverty reduction nexus. As a result, strategies and policies for poverty reduction must cover many areas. Key areas of SCCI’s vision 2009-2010 for poverty reduction support include: * Macroeconomic and Way to Success structural policies - for- mulating the overall policy framework for growth for poverty reduction; * Employment for pov- policies and management, poverty reduction through erty reduction – strategies to make sure they comple- policy interventions for the employment- eco- ment poverty reduction * Civil society and – de- nomic growth-poverty initiatives veloping strategies for reduction nexus; * Information and Com- partnering with civil soci- Agriculture? * Public resource man- munication Technology ety in overcoming poverty agement – focusing on for Development (ICTD) fiscal issues, in terms of – making ICT work for Madina Trading Company Page - 5 Industrial Option January 2009 | industrialoption.com Editor’s Desk “advisor” means giving “advice,” right, The Presidency and not providing all the facts. Of course, there’s also the problem of job security. When a politically-appointed Bureaucratic system boss insists in some way to “get the results that I want!” regarding a piece of I think the problem with the Presidency rises to the highest non-politically-ap- intelligence or other data, it is probably begins with people who care about pointed positions in government, the in one’s career interest to find the data, certain social problems. Not any one more dangerous he becomes. Whether or spin the dubious facts you have to fit problem in particular, not rural poverty, in the military, intelligence, diplomacy, the requirements of the boss. inner-city education, world democracy, law-enforcement, or social welfare, the population growth, trade deficits, arma- knowledge and advice that the bureau- A services company executive can’t ments, or whatever. And I’m not say- crat gives to his boss, whether it be a make the same demands. The boss ing that it’s wrong to care about these Minister, Secretary, or maybe even the may say, “Our best act sold ten million problems. But once people have been President himself, is but one piece of of sales the last time. Make sure new trained that only government can solve advice among many. With your one shot, services sells twelve million!” Sure, the problem, all hell can break loose. give them the best you got. heads may roll if the album fails to live up to the boss’s demands, but what can’t Because then “public service” becomes a Are these senior officials supposed to be hidden successfully is the actual data highly-valued, honorable profession. So- know and understand every detail of – the actual sales of the services. cially-concerned people get the proper everything? They would be swamped, education and become bureaucrats with conflicting reports, interpretations, Services sales, or sales on anything, or – experts in their field. I have no doubt and recommendations. television ratings, provide pretty much than most of them care about what they irrefutable data. Not so the questions of do, that they want to do good. That’s In such an environment, if I were a bu- government. What does “obesity” mean? probably half the problem right there. reaucrat, I’d be inclined, even if uncon- What’s the difference between healthy Caring about what they do, their budget sciously, to spin all the relevant facts into drugs and unhealthy, immoral drugs? is never large enough – they are always a recommendation that I think would be What is a wetland? Or an under-per- shafted, understaffed, and underpaid best for the country. I’d probably omit forming school? – and they can’t do their jobs properly. data I personally thought was unim- portant and emphasize what I thought The free-market has the objectivity of To the degree that the bureaucrat are the crucial points. After all, being an prices, whereas the government bureau- Page - 6 Industrial Option January 2009 | industrialoption.com Editor’s Desk crat has the subjectivity of “social prob- the nation’s campaign finance laws can to hear, or what his advisors expect him lems.” In a free market, if the money isn’t operate in full accordance with the to want to hear. The unvarnished truth coming in through sales, the business Constitution. is the casualty. And how do we know will have to close. But the more that that senior bureaucrats and advisors coercion infects a society through taxa- The libertarian answer to all of these is even know the truth themselves, but rely tion, price control, and prohibition, the pretty clear: get the federal government instead on what the lower-levels report less freedom producers and consumers out of the way. But since few people to them? ©RAD Federation can set prices, and the more bureaucrats are libertarian, and no President ever is, Even the most honest, principled and have the leeway to cook the statistics to all of these issues become irreducibly well-meaning of men would be consid- bend to whatever they or their politi- complex. That means, when the princi- ered a corrupt failure as President. cally-appointed superiors see fit. ple of freedom is rejected out of hand, discerning the best of the remaining The President is always too susceptible For some people in government, no indi- options requires supernatural, God-like to bad advice, and no human being is vidual will ever be fit enough, no country intelligence. capable of always knowing when to get will ever be democratic enough, the good advice. Even a “good” man who environment will never be clean enough, The President can’t possibly know or is President will mislead the Pakistani the teachers will never be paid enough. anticipate the effects of all of his execu- people on numerous occasions, even if Public policy can bend to their demands, tive orders and bill signings. He has to he isn’t aware of it. no matter how inaccurate or wasteful rely on advisors – not being a libertarian, they may be. there’s no other realistic choice. To make The political and bureaucratic structure the “right decision” on matters he barely of the office of the Presidency is too Through the maze of political appoint- knows anything about, he must trust his complicated for one person to manage ments and specialized, self-interested appointed underlings, political advisors, or control.

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