Issues in Pakistan's economy : a political economy perspective / S. Akbar Zaidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaidi, S. Akbar, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pakistan--Economic conditions.

Pakistan.

Economic conditions.

Pakistan--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 836 pages ; 29 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This book is about understanding Pakistan's structural transformation over six decades in a political economy framework. The author examines how and where such transformations have taken place, in the economy, society, in class and gender relations, in manifestations of consumerism and culture, and in other ways. He assesses Pakistan's trajectory of economic and political development, and focuses on an economic and social history of Pakistan, using a political economy framework to examine the nature of this structural transformation. This book follows the narrative of the evolution of Pakistan's social, economic and even political dispensation over many decades, highlighting key developments and events. As has happened so many times in Pakistan's history, unintended consequences have shaped developments. Yet, social and economic change has also been somewhat anticipated and predictable, giving rise to relatively more certain outcomes. The immense growth of urban populations, a middle class, and a buoyant informal sector, alongside the breakdown of state authority and of state institutions, have been unfolding almost expectedly. The previous trend of the 'urbanization of everybody', seems to have morphed into an 'urbanization with informalization', with the co-movements of urbanization and informal relations of production and exchange dominating social and political interactions. What this means for subsequent development remains uncertain. Issues in Pakistan's Economy: A Political Economy Perspective, will interest serious scholars of Pakistan's economic history and its developments, as well as those who seek to understand how social and economic processes have an impact on numerous outcomes and forms of structural transformation, and how state and society evolve in a political economy perspective. -- from the publisher.

Contents:

1. Understanding Pakistan's Structural Transformation: 1947-2014

Part 1. Agriculture

2. Is Pakistan Feudal? A Historical Account of the Development of Agriculture in Pakistan

3. The Green Revolution and Land Reforms

4. The Nature and Direction of Agrarian Change

5. Agriculture: Critical Issues

Part 2. Industry and Trade

6. The Process of Industrialization in Pakistan I: 1947-77

7. The Process of Industrialization in Pakistan II: 1977-2013

8. Key Issues in Industry in Pakistan

9. Balance of Payments and Trade Regimes

Part 3. Fiscal Policy

10. Resource Mobilization and the Structure of Taxation

11. Debt and Deficits

Part 4. Devolution and Fiscal Federalism

12. Local Government and the Political Economy of Decentralization

13. Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan: Emerging Dynamics, Issues, and Prospects

Part 5. Monetary Policy and Financial and Capital Markets

14. Financial and Capital Markets

15. Monetary Policy, Savings, and Inflation

Part 6. Neo-liberalism, Stabilization, and Macroeconomics: From ESAFs to PRSPs to SBAs-1988 to the present

16. Structural Adjustment Programmes: Composition and Effects

17. The IMF and Structural Adjustment Programmes in Pakistan

18. Macroeconomic Developments: 1998-2013

Part 7. Social Sectors I: Institutions and Governance

19. The Social Sectors I: International Comparisons, Education, Population, Urbanization, and Housing

20. The Social Sectors II: MDGs, Gender, Environment, NGOs, Institutions, and Governance

21. The Social Sectors III: The Health Sector and the Health-Poverty Nexus

Part 8. Poverty and Inequality

22. Poverty: Trends, Causes, and Solutions

23. Regional and Income Inequalities

Part 9: Political Economics

24. The Political Economy of Neighbourly Relations

25. War, Destruction, and Aid

26. Political Economics: Class, State, Power, and Transition

27. A New Political Economy?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780199401833

0199401837

OCLC:

914163436