Had adult literacy rate been close to 100 instead of close to 50 today, it is my estimate that the per capita income would have reached at least $ instead of $ Pakistan’s manufactured exports in the 1960s were higher than those of Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia.
Had investment in educating the population and upgrading the training, skills and health of the labour force been up to the level of East Asian Countries and a policy of openness to world market would have been maintained without any break, Pakistan’s exports would have been at least $ billion instead of paltry $ billion.