Skill Formation Strategies for Sustaining 'The Drive to Maturity' in Pakistan

Muhammad Zahid Siddique and Javed Akbar Ansari
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Muhammad Zahid Siddique: NU-FAST, Karachi.
Javed Akbar Ansari: PAF-KIET, Karachi.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2005, vol. 44, issue 4, 541-566

Abstract: This paper outlines some problems in the articulation of a national skill formation strategy seeking to sustain ‘the drive to maturity’ of the Pakistan economy. We examine the thought of two economists—Adam Smith and Amartya Sen—to identify market-, society-, and state-related skills that they theorise as necessary for sustaining an economy’s ‘drive to maturity’. We then briefly outline Michel Foucault’s social theory to contextualise these skill formation paradigms within the institutional structure characteristic of mature capitalism. We argue that integration within global capitalist order leaves little room for the articulation of such a skill formation national strategy. Pakistan is therefore likely to share the fate of the majority of the under-developed countries which are experiencing de-skilling and detechonolgising

Date: 2005
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