WASHINGTON: A United Nations report, directed by Pakistan’s former finance minister Mahbub Ul Haq, says that countries like Pakistan are spending too much ‘on the military and too little on social programmes.
Haq a former World Bank official, also blamed the bank indirectly for Sri Lanka’s troubles.
Developing countries the report says must cut military spending, which in Pakistan, Zaire, Chad and Uganda is two to three times as much as for social programmes.
An agency for international development report pointed ‘out recently that Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world where illiteracy has gone up.
The main theme of the report, prepared by the UN development programme and is called the “Human Development Report 1990” is that western governments and international aid organizations have done a crude job of measuring world economic and social development for decades, thus contributing to ineffective development strategies.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 8, 1990
