Author : Viqar Ahmed
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The first volume in a series on Pakistan's economy, this book investigates and analyzes the factors responsible for the economic policies followed in Pakistan from 1947 to 1982. These policies, the authors argue, are largely responsible for the economic situation of Pakistan today.
Author : Rashid Amjad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107109523
This book discusses the fundamental constraints that need to be overcome to move the economy of Pakistan to higher growth.
Author : Sohail J. Malik
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Pakistan
ISBN :
Author : Shaun Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1317550110
This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security. In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an elected government complete a full term in office and transfer power through the ballot box to another civilian government. At this important moment in Pakistan’s history, this collection brings together twelve leading academics and writers with an aim to provide a far-reaching analysis of the current situation in Pakistan and emergent trends. Drawing on history, diverse theoretical perspectives, and empirical evidence, three themed sections deal respectively with democratic transition (including Islam and democracy, civil-military relations, and economics), contested borders and contested spaces (the Pashtun belt, Kashmir, and intra-Islamic conflict), and regionalism (bilateral relations from both Pakistani and Indian perspectives, US-Pakistan relations, and nuclear weapons dynamics). Together the contributors explore the status of Pakistan’s democratic transition, contemporary security dynamics, and wider regional security and political dynamics, and the complex interplay of the three, to provide a wide-ranging analysis of Pakistan’s contemporary national and regional challenges, its impact on the region, and evidence of some positive trends for Pakistan’s future. The book will be of much interest to students of South Asian politics, Asian security, governance, and IR in general as well as policy-makers, diplomats, and military professionals.
Author : Matthew McCartney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110876309X
This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian–military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the lens of varied academic disciplines. It not only brings together new work by some emerging scholars but also formulates a new political economy for the country, reflecting the contemporary reality and diversification in the social sciences in Pakistan. The chapters dynamically and dialectically capture emergent processes and trends in framing Pakistan's political economy and invite scholars to engage with and move beyond these concerns and issues.
Author : Farzana Shaikh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190062061
Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with the United States since 9/11; others see it as a consequence of Pakistan's long history of authoritarian rule, which has marginalized liberal opinion and allowed the rise of a religious right. Farzana Shaikh argues the country's decline is rooted primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of Pakistan and the significance of 'being Pakistani'. This has pre-empted a consensus on the role of Islam in the public sphere and encouraged the spread of political Islam. It has also widened the gap between personal piety and public morality, corrupting the country's economic foundations and tearing apart its social fabric. More ominously still, it has given rise to a new and dangerous symbiosis between the country's powerful armed forces and Muslim extremists. Shaikh demonstrates how the ideology that constrained Indo-Muslim politics in the years leading to Partition in 1947 has left its mark, skillfully deploying insights from history to better understand Pakistan's troubled present.
Author : Matthew McCartney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136709452
This book provides a comprehensive reassessment of the development of the economy of Pakistan since independence to the present. It employs a rigorous statistical methodology, which has applicability to other developing economies, to define and measure episodes of growth and stagnation, and to examine how the state has contributed to each. Contesting the orthodox view that liberalisation has been an important driver of growth in Pakistan, the book places the state at the centre of economic development, rather than the market. It examines the state in relation to its economic roles in mobilising resources and promoting a productive allocation of those resources, and its political roles in managing the conflict inherent in economic development. The big conclusions for economic growth in Pakistan are that liberalisation, the market and the external world economy in fact have less influence than that of the state and conflict. Overall, the book offers analyses of the different successive approaches to promoting economic growth and development in Pakistan, relates these to medium-term economic outcomes - periods of growth and stagnation - and thereby explains how the mechanisms by which the state can better promote growth and development.
Author : Rajshree Jetly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1136516964
Pakistan is at currently at the centre of regional and global geo-strategic issues as a frontline state in the global war on terrorism. It is seeking to project itself as a modern Islamic state that can engage both the Islamic bloc and the western world in the post 9/11 era. This book addresses some questions under the broad rubric of International Relations and Security. It focuses on four themes: Pakistan and global security; Pakistan’s international relations; politics and identity in Pakistan; and economic development of Pakistan. Leading international experts have contributed articles within the framework of these themes.
Author : Srinath Raghavan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674731298
The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be understood only in a wider international context.
Author : Iain Cochrane
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1445240432
An enquiry into the causes of the Bangladesh War
