Leading Issues In The Economy Of Pakistan

This book is the main text for post-graduate courses on South Asia's development, economic history and on its political economy. For researchers on Pakistan's economy, it is the key source for reference, and covers a huge and diverse array of data, literature reviews, commentary and analysis.

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.

Makes a major intervention in debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics.

Pakistan from 1950 to 1965 had a rate of industrial growth as rapid as any in the non-coommunist wold. To achieve this the country employed a variety of policy instruments. This study examines in detail the relatiionships among the principal policy variables and the rate & direction of industrialization. Condition good.

The Economic Survey is the budget document of the Government of India. It presents the state of affairs of the Indian economy. Economic Survey 2017-18 consists of two volumes. Volume I provides an analytical overview of the performance of the Indian economy during the financial year 2017-18. It highlights the long-term challenges facing the economy. Volume II is a descriptive review of the major sectors of the economy. It emphasizes economic reforms of contemporary relevance like GST, the investment-saving slowdown, fiscal federalism and accountability, gender inequality, climate change and agriculture, science and technology, among others.

This book, by the former chief of the World Bank Mission in Central Asia, presents an assessment of Pakistan's economic record and performance over the last fifty years. Hasan examines the role of politics and economic policies in explaining Pakistan's development experience and highlights the sources of present economic difficulties. A unique feature of the book is that the analysis of the period prior to separation presents trends for East and West Pakistan separately and focuses on inter-regional economic issues that became so divisive in the final years of united Pakistan. Drawing on these past lessons, the book also presents an agenda for policy and institutional reform for the future.