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...

This article attempts to contribute to the literature by carefully documenting home-based work in four sectors in Pakistan in a value chain context. We attempt to isolate and compare the unit remuneration of workers relative to unit value added at the lowest tier of the chain as a measure of...

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...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- PART I: Background -- 1. Introduction -- What is development economics? -- Is "development economics" really a field? -- Paradigms, approaches...