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UNINA9910797574903321 |
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Titolo |
Development challenges confronting Pakistan / / edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak |
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Boulder, Colorado : , : Kumarian Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development - Pakistan |
Human security - Pakistan |
Pakistan Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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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 |
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