And that is why the Ehsaas Programme, during this government’s tenure, reached out to 16 million households, which means 96 million people, who are poor in this country. Then, take a portion of their profits and income through taxation and use this for the welfare of the poor and the downtrodden population. The philosophy of this government is to allow private businesses to create wealth for the country. So that is the innovation which I introduced to the governance structure. So, we now have an institutional mechanism for carrying out reform. This committee meets every week and monitors the progress which has been made on different reforms and also comes up with the reforms which have been discussed and agreed, but have not been approved by the cabinet.
I put into place a cabinet committee on institutional reforms. They are supposed to carry them through implementation. After the implementation of those reforms, it comes to the responsibility of the respective ministries, whether it is the Establishment Division, or the Cabinet Division, the Finance Division or the Planning Division. So my task was to design the reforms, consult stakeholders, incorporate their views, take it to the cabinet and get it approved. But here I was as an advisor I had no executive responsibility. T he News on Sunday (TNS): How was this particular stint as Advisor to Prime Minister on Institutional Reforms different from your previous roles in different capacities?ĭr Ishrat Husain (IH): In the past, I was working as the chief executive of organisations like the State Bank of Pakistan, IBA Karachi, where I would formulate the strategy, change management, bring reforms and execute it. A career bureaucrat, a former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, while also having a long and distinguished career with the World Bank and the Institute of Business Administration (2008-2016), Dr Husain has also worked as a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. Dr Husain last served as Advisor to the Prime Minister for Institutional Reforms and Austerity from 2018 to July 2021. The News on Sunday (TNS) interviews economist Dr Ishrat Husain, who, after over five decades of an illustrious career in public service, has decided to hang up his boots.
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