Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan.

Intro -- Title page -- copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ch1-Introduction -- Historical Backdrop -- Situating Development Today in Pakistan -- Organization of the Volume -- Notes -- Part1-Economic Challenges -- ch2-Explaining the Puzzle of Pakistan's Lagging Economic Growth -- Weakness Diagnostics -- Weakness Diagnostics: The Case of Pakistan -- What Needs to Be Done? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- Appendix -- ch3-Dependency Is Dead: Long Live Dependency -- Competing Logics Inherited From Colonialism -- The Emerging Politics of Jihad -- Frontline State Yet Again -- Conclusion: Dependency Is Dead? -- Notes -- Reference List -- ch4-Insecurity Breeds Insecurity -- Notes -- Reference List -- Part2-Challenges of Infrastructural Transformation -- ch5-What Must Be Changed in Pakistan's Legal System, But How to Succeed? -- ch6-Political Impediments to Development -- Major Obstacles to Development -- Nature and Dynamics of Party Politics -- Constitutional and Political Discontinuity -- Islam, National Identity, and Nation-Building -- Religious Extremism and Militancy -- Civilian Governance and Development Problems Since 2008 -- Concluding Observation -- Notes -- ch7-Reforming Pakistan's Bureaucracy: Will the Eighteenth Amendment Help? -- Historical Overview -- Content and Context of Civil Services Reform -- Generational Shifts in Bureaucracy -- Civil Services Reform, Constitutional Architecture, and the Eighteenth Amendment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part3-Challenges of Human Security -- ch8-Social Protection: Extending Exclusion or Ending Exclusion? -- The Pakistan Context: Dual Trends and Multiple Institutions -- Challenges: A Social Protection Policy and Implementation -- Social Sector Trends: The Case for Social Policy -- Way Forward -- Notes.

ch9-"No American, No Gun, No BS": Tourism, Terrorism, and the Eighteenth Amendment -- Pakistan Tourism-The Official Picture -- Who Are the Tourists? -- Pakistan Tourism Revisited -- Notes -- Reference List -- ch10-The Importance of Population Policy in Pakistan -- Introduction -- Population Policy-What's in It for Development? -- Pakistan and Its Neighbors-A Different Scorecard? -- Unraveling the Disconnect-Where Has Policy Worked and Where Has It Not? -- Conclusions -- Reference List -- ch11-Religion and Development Challenges in Pakistan -- Definitions of Development and Religion -- The Ulama and Development in Pakistan -- The Ulama's Resistance to Modernity and Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix -- ch12-Faith-Based Versus Rights-Based Development for Pakistani Women -- Theocratization of Development -- Where Are These Ideas Emerging From? -- Main Concerns of Theocracy-Development Scholarship -- Notes -- Part 4-Ongoing Challenges of Militancy, Insecurity, and Political Paths -- ch13-Gendered Peripheries: Structuring the Nation, the State, and Consensus in Pakistan -- The Gendered Social Contract -- Notes -- ch14-Pakistan's Political Development: Will the Future Be Like the Past? -- Notes -- ch15-The Intersection of Development, Politics, and Security -- The Primacy of the "India Factor" for the Pakistani State -- The "Guardian" Military Takes It Upon Itself -- The India Factor: Affecting Pakistan's Core -- Beyond Numbers: The Political Economy of Defense -- The Global Context: India Factor Colors Pakistan's Global Outreach -- Pakistan Burns From Within: The Militant Fallout -- Breaking the Stronghold: Moving Beyond the India Factor -- Notes -- Reference List -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.

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