how to deal with our supreme court

[ravage]

Re: how to deal with our supreme court

@king_faisal

ravage, these surveys cannot be quantified. there is no way to measure whether indonesia is more corrupt than india or pakistan is more corrupt today compared to two years ago. these surveys are subjective opinions of people who make them and more than likely they get all the information from news reports.

Your opinion is subjective too. Mine is too. Any analysis you have is equally open for question. Characterizing it as a phd in a third rate university is pretty silly, their credentials are certainly more bonafide for me than with all respect due, yours.

if they got it right when they characterized benazir and nawaz’s govts corrupt, would you dismiss their analysis only when it doesnt jive with your political positions?

when making comparison across countries, i tend to look at cash measures such as fdi and govt revenue etc because these measures are easily observable. over the last two years foreign investors have put in more than $10bn in pak. this measure is better indication of which way corruption in govt is headed compared to any survey. in the end people who get their investment decision wrong end up being fired. so they have more to lose if they get their decision wrong than people making those surveys. no one cares if they get no. 4 and no. 5 wrong.

once again, presence of investment does not mean absence of corruption. there are corrupt government elsewhere that have plenty of investors. Iraq, under Saddam Hussain, attracted 40 billion dollar deals from countries like Russia and France. Does that mean that Iraqi government was not corrupt?

here you go, a more educated analysis of the impact of corruption on FDI. note, that the report does NOT say that presence of FDI means no corruption, infact models the investor’s behaviour in different levels of corruption, which implies that corrupt countries can still attract FDI:

http://www.improvinggovernance.be/upload/documents/T1_1_CrrptFDI.pdf