Open AccessComments on Professor Huda's Conference Address: "Planning Experience in Pakistan"
Author(s) -
Mohammad Anisur Rahman
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v8i3pp.347-353
Subject(s) - exposition (narrative) , debt , privilege (computing) , sociology , institution , space (punctuation) , economic justice , management , law , economics , social science , political science , computer science , finance , art , literature , operating system
It is a privilege to have been invited to comment on ProfessorHuda's Conference Address. It is worth noting that five out of the eightgentle¬men whose comments appear in this symposium have been students ofPro¬fessor Huda himself, no small achievement by one of the mostsuccessful teachers of his generation in this country. Ironicallyenough, the institution where Professor Huda has spent his wholeteaching career (and hopefully will return to) does not have any ofthese presumably distinguished economists in its current roll; nor, forthat matter, are any of them, save a solitary exception, currentlyserving any university in the country. But let us get down to business.1.2 In his characteristically lucid exposition of experience andprob¬lems in planning, Professor Huda has touched upon issues in a rangetoo wide for a commentator to do justice to within the constraints ofspace allotted to him. I shall confine my comments to two of the issuesonly, viz., repayment of external debt, and the strategy of generatinghigher income in the {private) capitalist sector. Other issues will bediscussed, I hope, by other more competent colleagues in thepanel.