Abstract
‖Ashar‖ is a cultural tradition of Pashtuwali-Pashtun code of life. It is a kind of
community based collective set of works/tasks related to ordinary business of
tribal life. It includes mostly socio-economic and socio-cultural set of household
jobs/tasks that are undertaken in collective mood by the village members in
most of the Southern Pashtunkhwa. It might be proved as one of the most
efficient and optimal economic models in tribal set-ups due to its integral
attributes of the absence of monetary markets, service exchange among the
individuals without any wages, no price signals, cultural gifts exchange,
ecological friendly, tribal economic modeling, sustainability without surpluses
and shortages of goods/services, labor productivity, kinship promotion, cultural
promotion, no dishonesty propelled by abnormal profits, and no boom and busts
in rural economy. Its economic modeling provides widespread prosperity, less
economic disparity, equality, redistribution of income and services, no windfall
gains or losses, basic nursery for new job comers and young lot of the
population, training and development in community services, and many other
attributes the modern economic models could provide to the mankind.
Aziz Ahmed, Dr. Noor Mohammad, Dr. Fida Bazai. (2019) “Analyzing the Economic Modeling of Pashtun Cultural Tradition of “Ashar” for Socio-economic Development of People of Tribal Set-ups in Southern Pashtunkhwa, Takatoo Journal, Volume 11, Issue 21.
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