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

• Pubblicazione: Boulder, Colorado : , : Kumarian Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.95491
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - Pakistan; Human security - Pakistan
• Soggetto geografico: Pakistan Politics and government
• Persona (resp. second.): WeissAnita M.; KhattakSaba Gul
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Development challenges confronting Pakistan
• ISBN: 1-56549-554-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797574903321
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