1st Edition
Civil Society and Pakistan's Economy Robber Barons and Meritocracy
Introduction; Chapter 1 Economic Vision of Pakistani Elites and Challenges of Transition from Patronage to Participatory Practices, Fayyaz Baqir; Chapter 2 Politics of Constitution Making in Pakistan: Why Religion and Authoritarianism are Hands in Glove? Hassan Abbas; Chapter 3 Development and Planning Administration: Where Checks and Balance Fail? Mukhtar Ahmad Ali; Chapter 4 Management of Resources and Revenues: Transformation or Regression? Uzair Younus, Imran Ahmad; Chapter 5 Incidence of Taxes: Who Bears How Much Burden? Ikram ul Haq; Chapter 6 Pakistan’s Achilles’ Heel: Under Allocation, Underspending or Underperformance? Hassan Bilal; Chapter 7 Feminist Discourse and Rent Seeking Under Patriarchy, Saifullah Chaudhry; Chapter 8 Non-profit Sector and Informal Economy: Entrepreneurial Spirit in Action, Sayyeda Zainub Razvi; Chapter 9 Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, Sarra Latif; Chapter 10 Globalization, Global Jihad and Civil Society, Jennifer Bennet; Chapter 11 Limitations of the Political Discourse, Samar Raghib, Sara Khan, Amna Khan
Biography
Fayyaz Baqir is a Development Practitioner and a visiting scholar at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He served as senior advisor on civil society at the United Nations and CEO of Trust for Voluntary Organizations. He received top contributors’ awards from the UNDP’s global poverty reduction network.
