Pakistan : moving the economy forward / edited by Rashid Amjad, Shahid Javed Burki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amjad, Rashid, 1947- editor.

Burki, Shahid Javed, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Pakistan.

Economic development.

Pakistan--Economic conditions--21st century.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 398 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pakistan's economic performance over the past 65 years has confounded its critics - when the country has performed much better than expected, especially in the early years - and disappointed those who had high expectations, given its initial start and economic potential. The central question that the contributors to this volume seek to answer is how to reverse the current prolonged period of low growth and high inflation that Pakistan has experienced, and to suggest and implement measures that would decisively move the economy onto a more sustainable growth path. The book draws on the wide experience of the authors at the highest level of policy-making to put forward realistic and concrete policies keeping in mind what works and does not work in the current socio-economic-political milieu. It also moves beyond the income measurement of poverty toward a more comprehensive analysis of what the best way is to target poverty in Pakistan.

Contents:

Overview / Rashid Amjad and Shahid Javed Burki

Failed economic promise: lessons from Pakistan's development experience / Parvez Hasan

Economic management under IMF tutelage: key lessons from the Musharraf and PPP rule 1999-2013 / Rashid Amjad

A country and an economy in transition / Shahid Javed Burki

Tackling the energy crisis / Afia Malik

Exports: lessons from the past and the way forward / Hamna Ahmed, Naved Hamid, and Mahreen Mahmud

The future path of tax reforms in Pakistan / Hafiz A. Pasha and Aisha Ghaus-Pasha

Pakistan's Indus basin water strategy: past, present and future / Shahid Amjad Chaudhry

Economic governance and institutional reforms / Ishrat Husain

Benefiting from foreign direct investment / Khalil Hamdani

An analysis of the remittances market in Pakistan / Rashid Amjad, M. Irfan, and G.M. Arif

The prospects for Indo-Pakistan trade / Hafiz A. Pasha and Muhammad Imran

Beyond the poverty line: a multidimensional analysis of poverty in Pakistan / Azam Chaudhry, Theresa Chaudhry, Muhammad Haseeb, and Uzma Afzal

Can the new intergovernmental structure work in Pakistan? Learning from China / Ehtisham Ahmad.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-316-33908-4

1-316-33948-3

1-316-33962-9

1-316-33971-8

1-316-33954-8

1-316-27171-4

1-316-34040-6