The main objective of this paper was to explore if trade liberalisation has ushered in the large scale de-industrialisation that is feared by some to follow in its wake and whether it has been successful in enhancing export promotion. We relied on several different kinds of evidence to...

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...

Using the Kuznets inverted-U-shaped association as a structural constraint, we model the social tradeoff between changing inequality and changing income. If observed outcomes for recent decades are taken as constrained political-economic optima, this model identifies the parameters of a social...

India's economic success over the last decade and a half, and more recently Pakistan's economic progress under the military government, have drawn attention. While these and information technology in India may be the main South Asian success stories drawing attention currently, there are a...

Two aspects of the problem of the unemployed educated persons are discussed in this essay. Firstly, the magnitude and incidence of the unemployment of such persons are examined. One point that becomes apparent from looking at the secondary data is that the bulk of the educated unemployed persons...

Expenditure on education is very often justified on the grounds that it is the means of providing equality of opportunity. Actually, at least two related factors prevent each child from getting an equal chance to flourish academically. Firstly, in a dual system of education, elite private...