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Ethnicity and Development: Addressing the Gaps in New Institutional Economics book cover

1st Edition

Ethnicity and Development Addressing the Gaps in New Institutional Economics

By Shahrukh Rafi Khan Copyright 2024
92 Pages
by Routledge

92 Pages
by Routledge

92 Pages
by Routledge
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Ethnicity and Development explores the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the success or failure of nations and uses case studies of Bangladesh and Pakistan to illustrate this. It analyzes the role of institutions in engendering economic and social progress and challenges the New Institutional Economics (NIE) narrative. The book argues that the NIE narrative has some gaps, particularly that it... Read more

List of tables viii

Preface ix

1 New institutional economics and economic development 1

2 Nations, conceptual framework and method 15

3 Ethnicity and development 24

4 Independence, ethnicity and development: case studies 37

5 Forging national cohesion in constructed nations 51

6 Summary and conclusion 72

Index 75

Biography

Shahrukh Rafi Khan is currently a research associate at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. He has published extensively in refereed journals and authored and edited numerous books. His recent books include Economic Successes in South Asia: A Story of Partnerships (Routledge, 2022); Spontaneous and Induced Collective Action in Pakistani Rural Development (with Shaheen Rafi Khan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); Development Economics: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2020); A Microcredit Alternative in South Asia (with Natasha Ansari, Routledge, 2018); Routledge History of Development Economics Thought (Routledge, 2014); and Market as Means Not Master: Towards New Developmentalism (Routledge, 2010).

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