The paper analyses the income patterns of women workers employed in the urban manufacturing sector of Pakistan. It examines the wage differentials across regions, manufacturing sectors and industrial categories including large scale factories, small-scale enterprises and home based work. The...

Based on the premise that a functioning state is a necessary pre-requisite for pro-poor change, it is critical to investigate the role of the bureaucracy as a key catalyst in this process. Weber (1968) ascribes bureaucracies to be anchors of the modern nation state as their conduct is based on...

This paper takes a political economy perspective in analysing the nature and causes on the decline in bureaucratic conduct. Section 1 lays out the details of this structure. Based on a logical model which places the bureaucracy within the larger context of the objective function of the state,...

Khawar Mumtaz outlines how the ICPD helped to shift the nature of the population and development debate in Pakistan by bringing women's fundamental needs and the links between productive and reproductive rights into sharp relief. Development (1999) 42, 15–17....

Wendy Harcourt and Khawar Mumtaz, who have worked together for the last decade on many issues around women's rights, environment and reproductive health, reflect on how globalization has impacted on women's place-based organizing. They take the processes around the International Conference on...

Khawar Mumtaz examines the gender–poverty nexus in Pakistan, and how gender disparities relate to, and link with, poverty reduction, economic growth and wellbeing. Development (2007) 50, 149–153. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100369