This book aims to suggest ways to make the public sector rural primary schooling more effective. The broader objective is a comparative institutional analysis of government, private and NGO schools. The study identifies processes pushing for improvements in the NGO and private sectors and those...

The volume reviews the fifty years of Pakistan's economy, representing the case history of a country as a laboratory where currently fashionable economic ideas have been imported and tried out.

Few would oppose a devolution reform that truly empowers the grassroots level and improves service delivery for the poor. We demonstrate that the key to such devolution in rural Pakistanis diffusing power via land reforms so that the poor are empowered and capable of ensuring that the service...