The case against technocrats

IT’S a simple argument: Pakistan’s problems emerge from leaders with poor skills — people who simply lack the knowledge of how to ‘fix’ the various issues that keep Pakistan poor. The solution is to bring people who are experts and give them the power to undertake reforms. In come people with fancy degrees and years of experience. In 1993, Moeen Qureshi, who hadn’t lived, voted, … Continue reading The case against technocrats