Pakistan at Seventy - Paperback / softback

This handbook examines Pakistan’s 70-year history from a number of different perspectivesWhen Pakistan was born, it did not have a capital, a functioning government or a centrabank. The country lacked a skilled workforce. While the state was in the process of beinestablished, eight million Muslim refugees arrived from India, who had to be absorbed into population of 24 million people. However, within 15 years, Pakistan was the fastest growinand transforming economy in the developing world, although the political evolution of thcountry during this period was not equally successful. Pakistan has vast agricultural anhuman resources, and its location promises trade, investment and other opportunities. Chapters in the volume, written by experts in the field, examine government and politics, economicsforeign policy and environmental issues, as well as social aspects of Pakistan’s developmentincluding the media, technology, gender and education.Shahid Javed Burki is an economist who has been a member of the faculty at Harvard University, USA, and Chief Economist, Planning and Development Department, Government othe Punjab. He has also served as Minister of Finance in the Government of Pakistan, and hawritten a number of books, and journal and newspaper articles. He joined the World Bank i1974 as a senior economist and went on to serve in several senior positions. He was the (firstDirector of the China Department (1987–94) and served as the Regional Vice-President foLatin America and the Caribbean during 1994–99. He is currently the Chair of the Board oDirectors of the Shahid Javed Burki Institute of Public Policy at NetSol (BIPP) in Lahore.Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury is a career Bangladeshi diplomat and former Minister of ForeigAffairs in the Government of Bangladesh (2007–08). He has a PhD in international relationfrom the Australian National University, Canberra. He began his career as a member of thcivil service of Pakistan in 1969. Dr Chowdhury has held senior diplomatic positions in thcourse of his career, including as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UniteNations in New York (2001–07) and in Geneva (1996–2001), and was ambassador to QatarChile, Peru and the Vatican. He is currently a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute oSouth Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.Asad Ejaz Butt is the Director of the Burki Institute of Public Policy, Lahore, Pakistan.