Development challenges confronting Pakistan

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Development challenges confronting Pakistan

edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak

Kumarian Press, 2013

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"American Institute of Pakistan Studies"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Explaining the puzzle of Pakistan's lagging economic growth / Shahrukh Rafi Khan
  • Dependency is dead : long live dependency / Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
  • Insecurity breeds insecurity / Abid Qaiyum Suleri
  • What must be changed in Pakistan's legal system, but how to succeed? / Aitzaz Ahsan
  • Political impediments to development / Hassan Askari Rizvi
  • Reforming Pakistan's bureaucracy : will the eighteenth amendment help? / Saeed Shafqat
  • Social protection : extending exclusion or ending exclusion? / Saba Gul Khattak
  • "No American, no gun, no BS" : tourism, terrorism and the eighteenth amendment / John Mock
  • The importance of population policy in Pakistan / Zeba Sathar and Peter C. Miller
  • Religion and development challenges in Pakistan / Muhammad Khalid Masud
  • Faith-based versus rights-based development for Pakistani women / Afiya Shehrbano Zia
  • Gendered peripheries : structuring the nation, the state and consensus in Pakistan / Nazish Brohi
  • Pakistan's political development : will the future be like the past? / Ashley J. Tellis
  • The intersection between development, politics and security / Moeed Yusuf

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The global scholarly community concerned with development and social transformation has identified explicit ""structural impediments"" that constrain countries’ efforts to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable social development. The UNDP, in launching its Millennium Development Goals, contends that there are “practical, proven solutions” to breaking out of the poverty traps that entangle poor countries. In Pakistan, there has been limited substantive research conducted to identify the unique blend of structural impediments to development that prevail in the country today. Indeed, Pakistan’s prospects to promote viable, sustainable social development appear bleaker today than a decade ago. This volume seeks to rectify this void by bringing together scholars and practitioners—many of them from Pakistan—to provide a scholarly understanding of the structural impediments, or barriers, that have negative effects on Pakistan’s ability to eliminate poverty, promote social justice and implement policies to promote equity. This book will be an essential tool for analysis, study and practice. Its publication is indeed a major event in South Asian scholarship.

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