Read the extract from a textile-worker interview collected in Karachi. The worker says that factories were taken over by the government in the 1970s, but th...
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Read the extract from a textile-worker interview collected in Karachi. The worker says that factories were taken over by the government in the 1970s, but that management and production later became difficult. The interviewer wants to examine Bhutto's economic programme and its effects on ordinary people in Pakistan.
(a) Identify the term used when the state takes private industries into public ownership. [1]
(b) Explain one reason why Bhutto introduced this policy. [2]
(c) Analyse one disadvantage of nationalisation for Pakistan's economy. [2]
Answer Details
(a) Nationalisation. [1] (b) Any two: to reduce power of wealthy industrialists; to distribute wealth more fairly; to bring key services under state control; to fulfil socialist election promises. [2] (c) Any two linked points: inefficient state management could reduce output; political appointments could weaken expertise; private investors could be discouraged; losses increased pressure on government finance. [2]
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