Pakistan's Economy at the Crossroads

Download or read book Pakistan's Economy at the Crossroads written by Parvez Hasan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses Pakistan's economic performance during the first fifty years of its existence. It tries to answer two fundamental questions: what factors have contributed to the steady, if not spectacular, growth in Pakistan, despite high political volatility and the failure of development to dominate the national agenda over long periods of time? And why has the growth been so lopsided that the sustainability of the development process has been jeopardized? The book also presents an agenda for policy and institutional reform which would help to restore rapid growth, put the country's finances on a sound footing, and, above all, ensure a better distribution of growth benefits to all segments of the population.