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The new development paradigm : papers on institutions, NGOs, gender and local government / S. Akbar Zaidi.
Lippincott Library HC440.5 .Z35 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zaidi, S. Akbar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Economic aspects.
- Public health.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Pakistan--Economic policy.
- Pakistan.
- Economic policy.
- Non-governmental organizations--Pakistan.
- Local government--Pakistan.
- Local government.
- Public health--Economic aspects--Pakistan.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Pakistan.
- Economic development projects--Pakistan.
- Women in development--Developing countries.
- Local Subjects:
- Economic development.
- Local government--Pakistan.
- Economic development--Pakistan.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Economic development projects--Pakistan.
- Women in development--Developing countries.
- Physical Description:
- x, 321 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Karachi : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- The role of government, institutions, and society has been radically transformed in the last two decades. This book examines how the New Development Paradigm is put into practice in Pakistan and other undeveloped countries. It focuses upon the role of NGOs, institutions, and local governments play in development related activity, and examines the attempts to alter the gender balance.
- Contents:
- Urban local government in Pakistan : expecting too much from too little?
- The role of municipalities in infrastructure : some evidence from small and intermediate towns in Sindh
- Politics, institutions, poverty : the case of Karachi
- Institutions and policy in the rural water supply sector in Pakistan
- NGO capability and community participation in the rural water supply sector in Pakistan
- NGO failure and the need to bring back the state
- Planning in the health sector : for whom, by whom?
- The health sector in Pakistan : issues, constraints, possibilities
- Health, well-being, and adjustment : the case of Pakistan
- Gender, health, and contextuality
- Women's health and nutrition in the World Bank's new agenda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195790413
- OCLC:
- 41388749
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