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Title Development challenges confronting Pakistan / edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak
Edition First edition
Published Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, an imprint of Stylus Publishing, 2013
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Contents Title page; copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; ch1-Introduction; Historical Backdrop; Situating Development Today in Pakistan; Organization of the Volume; Notes; Part1-Economic Challenges; ch2-Explaining the Puzzle of Pakistan's Lagging Economic Growth; Weakness Diagnostics; Weakness Diagnostics: The Case of Pakistan; What Needs to Be Done?; Conclusion; Notes; Reference List; Appendix; ch3-Dependency Is Dead: Long Live Dependency; Competing Logics Inherited From Colonialism; The Emerging Politics of Jihad; Frontline State Yet Again; Conclusion: Dependency Is Dead?; Notes
Reference Listch4-Insecurity Breeds Insecurity; Notes; Reference List; Part2-Challenges of Infrastructural Transformation; ch5-What Must Be Changed in Pakistan's Legal System, But How to Succeed?; ch6-Political Impediments to Development; Major Obstacles to Development; Nature and Dynamics of Party Politics; Constitutional and Political Discontinuity; Islam, National Identity, and Nation-Building; Religious Extremism and Militancy; Civilian Governance and Development Problems Since 2008; Concluding Observation; Notes; ch7-Reforming Pakistan's Bureaucracy: Will the Eighteenth Amendment Help?
Historical OverviewContent and Context of Civil Services Reform; Generational Shifts in Bureaucracy; Civil Services Reform, Constitutional Architecture, and the Eighteenth Amendment; Conclusion; Notes; Part3-Challenges of Human Security; ch8-Social Protection: Extending Exclusion or Ending Exclusion?; The Pakistan Context: Dual Trends and Multiple Institutions; Challenges: A Social Protection Policy and Implementation; Social Sector Trends: The Case for Social Policy; Way Forward; Notes; ch9-"No American, No Gun, No BS": Tourism, Terrorism, and the Eighteenth Amendment
Pakistan Tourism-The Official PictureWho Are the Tourists?; Pakistan Tourism Revisited; Notes; Reference List; ch10-The Importance of Population Policy in Pakistan; Introduction; Population Policy-What's in It for Development?; Pakistan and Its Neighbors-A Different Scorecard?; Unraveling the Disconnect-Where Has Policy Worked and Where Has It Not?; Conclusions; Reference List; ch11-Religion and Development Challenges in Pakistan; Definitions of Development and Religion; The Ulama and Development in Pakistan; The Ulama's Resistance to Modernity and Development; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix
Ch12-Faith-Based Versus Rights-Based Development for Pakistani WomenTheocratization of Development; Where Are These Ideas Emerging From?; Main Concerns of Theocracy-Development Scholarship; Notes; Part 4-Ongoing Challenges of Militancy, Insecurity, and Political Paths; ch13-Gendered Peripheries: Structuring the Nation, the State, and Consensus in Pakistan; The Gendered Social Contract; Notes; ch14-Pakistan's Political Development: Will the Future Be Like the Past?; Notes; ch15-The Intersection of Development, Politics, and Security; The Primacy of the "India Factor" for the Pakistani State
Summary Annotation 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, Pakistans prospects to promote viable, sustainable social development appear bleaker today than a decade ago. Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan seeks to rectify this void by bringing together scholars and practitionersmany of them from Pakistanto provide a scholarly understanding of the structural impediments, or barriers, that have negative effects on Pakistans 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 27, 2015)
Subject Economic development -- Pakistan
Human security -- Pakistan
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Economic development
Human security
Politics and government
SUBJECT Pakistan -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096888
Subject Pakistan
Form Electronic book
Author Weiss, Anita M., editor.
Khattak, Saba Gul, editor.
ISBN 9781565495548
1565495543