Development challenges confronting Pakistan - Weiss, Anita M.; Khattak, Saba Gul (Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, an imprint of Stylus Publishing, 2013)
Introduction / Anita M. Weiss -- part 1. Economic challenges. Explaining the puzzle of Pakistan's lagging economic growth / Shahrukh Rafi Khan ; Dependency is dead : long live dependency / Aasim Sajjad Akhtar ; Insecurity breeds insecurity / Abid Suleri -- part 2. Challenges of infrastructural transformation. What must be changed in Pakistan's legal system, but how to succeed? / Aitzaz Ahsan ; Political impediments to development / Hassan Askari Rizvi ; Reforming Pakistan's bureaucracy : will the 18th Amendment help? / Saeed Shafqat -- part 3. Challenges of human security. The challenges to social protection : extending exclusion or ending exclusion / Saba Gul Khattak ; "No American, no gun, no BS" : tourism, terrorism and the 18th Amendment / John Mock ; The importance of population policy in Pakistan / Zeba Sathar and Peter C. Miller ; Religion and development challenges in Pakistan / Muhammad Khalid Masud ; Faith-based vs rights-based development for Pakistani women / Afiya Shehrbano Zia -- part 4. Ongoing challenges of militancy, insecurity and political paths. Gendered peripheries : structuring the nation, the state and consensus in Pakistan / Nazish Brohi ; Pakistan's political development : will the future be like the past? / Ashley J. Tellis ; The intersection between development, politics and security : the case of Pakistan / Moeed Yusuf.
American Institute of Pakistan Studies
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Economic development -- Pakistan; Human security -- Pakistan; Pakistan -- Politics and government