Fifty Years of Pakistan's Economy: Traditional Topics and Contemporary Concerns

by Shahrukh Rafi Khan (editor)

This volume approaches Pakistan's economic system as a laboratory wherein a half-century's worth of fashionable economic ideas have been imported and tested. A related theme explored in this collection of essays is Pakistan's transition from more traditional macro and sectoral issues to a new set of concerns. Such interests include gender and development, specifically defined attempts at poverty alleviation, sustainable human development in the broad sense, and the environmental impact of economic development.

506 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Shahid Raja · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fifty Years of Pakistan's Economy by Shahrukh Rafi Khan is another excellent treatise on the political economy of Pakistan. Although a bit dated as it covers only the first fifty years of Pakistan’s development experience yet it is a masterly analysis of the issues Pakistan has been facing since its independence in accelerating its rate of growth. Unfortunately, those issues are still with us.

[Bilal Rashid · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thought provoking perspective, take it with a pinch of salt