Research Catalog

Title

Development challenges confronting Pakistan / edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak.

Publication

• Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, an imprint of Stylus Publishing, 2013.
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Weiss, Anita M.
• Khattak, Saba Gul

Description

viii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

American Institute of Pakistan Studies

Subject

• Economic development > Pakistan
• Human security > Pakistan
• Pakistan > Politics and government

Note

• American Institute of Pakistan Studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Anita M. Weiss -- part 1. Economic challenges. 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 Suleri -- part 2. Challenges of infrastructural transformation. 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 18th Amendment help? / Saeed Shafqat -- part 3. Challenges of human security. The challenges to social protection : extending exclusion or ending exclusion / Saba Gul Khattak ; "No American, no gun, no BS" : tourism, terrorism and the 18th 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 vs rights-based development for Pakistani women / Afiya Shehrbano Zia -- part 4. Ongoing challenges of militancy, insecurity and political paths. 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 : the case of Pakistan / Moeed Yusuf.

Call Number

JFE 13-5928

ISBN

• 9781565495524 (cloth)
• 1565495527 (cloth)
• 9781565495531 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1565495535 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 9781565494961 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1565494962 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 9781565494954 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 1565494954 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 9781565495548 (library networkable e-edition) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781565495555 (consumer e-edition) (canceled/invalid)
• 1565495543 (library networkable e-edition) (canceled/invalid)
• 1565495551 (consumer e-edition) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781565494978 (library networkable e-edition) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781565494985 (consumer e-edition) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012022876

OCLC

796354960

Title

Development challenges confronting Pakistan / edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak.

Imprint

Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, an imprint of Stylus Publishing, 2013.

Copyright Date

©2013

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American Institute of Pakistan Studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Weiss, Anita M., editor.

Khattak, Saba Gul, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-5928