Khadija Haq outlines the successes of the NSRT in setting the human centred international development agenda of the last decades. Within this context she also frames the major questions posed by the papers published here from the Tidewater NSRT meeting. Development (1999) 42, 5–8....

In common with most developing countries, the statistical information about savings in Pakistan is weak and incomplete. Some studies were made in the recent past [lea), pp.I-50; 1(b), pp.163-208] but these relate to specific sectors of the economy, or they are based on one statistical source and...