50 Years of Pakistan's Economy - Traditional Topics and Contemporary Concerns

Author: Shahrukh Rafi KhanPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 1999Language: EnglishPages: 499ISBN/UPC (if available): 019577826X DescriptionFifty years of Pakistan's economic experience represents the case history of a country as a laboratory where currently fashionable economic ideas are being tried out. This is one of the main themes of this book. A related theme is the transition, also a response to imported ideas, from the more traditional macro and sectoral concerns to a new set of concerns. These ideas include a concern for human development in a broad sense and more specifically, with poverty, women and development, and a concern for the environmental impact of economic development. In section 2 of this introductory chapter, the notion of economic experimentation will be demonstrated by associating economic growth rates to periods in which different economic philosophies were applied. In section 3 to 5, the same theme will be demonstrated b reviewing the findings of the b