Issues in Pakistan's Economy - Softcover

Zaidi, S. Akbar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195790529 ISBN 13: 9780195790528

Publisher: OUP Pakistan, 1999

Synopsis

The first comprehensive fifty-year perspective on Pakistan's economic history, it re-examines the conventional wisdom about development in Pakistan's society and economy, and provides facts and data that are not easily available.

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About the Author

S. Akbar Zaidi is a Karachi-based social scientist who specializes in the field of political economy. He taught at Karachi University for nearly fifteen years and continues to lecture at universities in Pakistan and abroad. Most recently (2004-05) he was a Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He conducts research and has published twelve books, two of which, Issues in Pakistan's Economy (OUP, 1999) and The New Development Paradigm: Papers on Institutions, NGOs, Gender and Local Government (OUP, 1999), have become standard textbooks for graduate and postgraduate courses on Pakistan's economy and Development Economics, both in Pakistan and abroad. He has published in numerous international professional journals on themes as diverse as devolution, health sociology, local government, fiscal policy, and international financial institutions.

Synopsis

This 50-year perspective on Pakistan's economic history re-examines the conventional wisdom about development in Pakistan's society and economy, and provides facts and data that are not otherwise easily available.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Pakistan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195790529
• ISBN 13: 9780195790528
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 480