Topic Breakdown Exercise

Topic: Bureaucracy Doldrums

Seed: What are the problems of bureaucracy in Pakistan?
Heading 1: Why is bureaucracy like the way it is now in Pakistan
 Pressure from two sides: Delivery targets, hinderances in
delivering.
 As a result of this pressure, bureaucracy keeps trying to adjust
itself to new demands and situations
 Bureaucratic adjustments take years of planning, and require
years to show results.
 One of the basic problems in Pakistan is that whenever a policy is
changed, it does not get enough time to show its result as well; it
is usually truncated long before its outcome becomes apparent.
 Political influence on bureaucracy is of two dimensions: politicians
demand immediate results for which they exert undue pressure,
and second, politician change too often, too fast.
Heading 2: Some major bureaucracy overhauls and changes in the
past.
Examples
Heading 3: In recent past international monetary organizations have
exerted pressure on restructuring bureaucracy.
Data on governance restructuring
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Heading 4: Ironically, the ones who are to be directly affected by the
austerity measures are the one who are supposed to implement those
measures in the country.
 Planners are also employees of the same department. Hence,
whatever policies they make, are to be implemented on them
too.
 Executives must execute policies on themselves
Heading 5: Way forward to extract bureaucracy from doldrums
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d- .
Conclusion