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Old Wednesday, October 02, 2013
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Today,our world has unfolded itself to an epoch of globalisation. Traditional ideas of government function and responsibilitiy (policing and providing security by maintaining law and order) have been changed radically, due to infleunces left over by globalistaion.Globalisation will go on in an unrestricted way in near future and has progressed ,already.It has led to exhange and and communication of not only socio-political ideas governing current world order but also movement of capital and human resource acros the national geographic boundaries. The reason behind the successful penetration of the notion of globalisation into each and every country across the globe, except some hard-liners likey north korea and iran , is the common belief that national resources are not evenly distributed amongst the nations of the world ,and every country is dependent on another country's resources in one way or another.So natural skewed distribution of resources across the various countries of the world has augmented the phenomenon of globalisation and it had consequently surfaced the notions of foriegn aid and trade as one of its leading repurcussions. Yes, one can point towards the process of globalistaion as no more than hegemony of few cultures,societies,currencies over the prevailing global socio-economic polity.As globalisation itself being double edged sword as said by many,there is no reason to not object over the foriegn aid assisstance given to a country.It has been said that globalised village leaders and sustainers are a few one and the sustenance of current world order will certainly benefit them, both politically and economically .In the same way in which some tribal leaders, in villages of past period,used to control and manipulate the masses by giving them loans and, in turn ,bullying them into thier own motives, the current major players of the world has used the foriegn aid as a trumpt card to rule indirectly ,at the behest of globalisation.The foriegn aid given to a reciepient country by a donor country have become a political meal today .It has made the reciepeint country overridden with public debts and has made more vulnerable to economic setbacks,resultantly.Often foriegn aid reduces the exploration and research activities for resources in a reciepient country which is a real remedy for its problems ,in many circumstances.More importantly , when alien aid disbursement on infrastructure development and human resource development is not carried on , and instead used by a few in corridors of power, in irresponsible way in the absence of effective auditing and accountablity mechanism ,that most of aid reciepient country lacks, the desired goals and objectives cannot be achieved upto a satisfactory level.what needs today in the domain of foriegn aid assisstance given to receipient country is to divert them into a workable and sound socio-economic status raising plans , in order to promote the human resource development .It is because of the undeveloped and unskiled human resource which leads to unexploration and untapping of natural resources,if any present in a country,which leads to unemployment and poverty and makes the country less rellisient to economic pitfalls.South korea ,japan and china are a leading example in this regard.former two has very meager natural resources in form of power,mineral or agriculture etc but thier deep acute attention over huan resource development and skilled labour has profitted them upto such an extent both are among the top ten economies of the world.though china has rich mineral and coal deposits but it was thier hardworking and skilled labour that uplifted chinnese economic system right from the rubble of war-torn and drug traffickling affected china.ALmost every emerging economy of the world has once recieved foriegn aid during thier lifetime ,it was thier staunch and firm adhermement to their own peoples' betterment purpose that has led them out of impasse. So far as pakistan is concerned,foriegn aid comes largely from three countries usa,china and saudi arabia though usa makes a chunk of the amount.The aid given to pakistan was not on humantarian basis or economic uplift of the poor and impoverished segments of the populace but to achieve some strategic motives in the region.the aid granted by china though are not viewed through the prism of mistrust in pakistani people but some geo-political strategist include it as a part of strings of pearl policy of china to secure its petroleum supply through arabian sea.In most of cases the foriegn aid hasnot been accorded in a fair transparent manner and kept them from public sight and local media.to add more the grievances ,beaurucratic government system and overcentralized economic deveopment planning, by planning and commission division of the country,has further added feul to the fire. Therefore ,the hopes of uplifting and extripating poverty from country fell short of reality through foriegn aid.no real mechanism of resource development and exploration have been devised by successive regimes that mainly are military ones.If foriegn aid had chanelled towards agricultural sector reforms and moderinisation, and research in this sector , majority of our population would have been not only freed from land activities but also more revenue generation to them and more time left for villagers to move towards the industrial sector. this is reason behind slow pace of urbanisation of town and villages in pakistan and resultant unemployment as our farmers allocate thier most time to agribusiness and few to other activities and earn little .

Foreign aid may have some pleasing and tranquilizerfunction between the two states provided it is given for no ulterior motives and only on humantarian grounds by a donor country.a part of this success lies also depends upon the allocation and disbursement of these funds on various projects envisaged by the government in power.As globalisation has encroached deep into the states's various domains ,one shoud hope amidst the appehension that its positive effects will be garnered by both the major players and minor players
of the world to harness and achieve its true and positive lasting effects.
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