Development challenges confronting Pakistan / edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Weiss, Anita M., editor.
• Khattak, Saba Gul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Economic development--Pakistan.
• Human security--Pakistan.
• Pakistan--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Kumarian Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although scholars and practitioners have identified explicit structural impediments that constrain countries' efforts to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable social development, there has been limited research conducted to identify the specific barriers to development that prevail in Pakistan today. The authors of Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan go far toward filling this void, articulating the unique blend of factors that affect Pakistan's ability to eliminate poverty and promote social justice.

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
• The "Guardian" Military Takes It Upon Itself

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-56549-554-3

OCLC:

936880758