This handbook examines Pakistan's 70-year history from a number of
different perspectives. When Pakistan was born, it did not have a
capital, a functioning government or a central bank. The country
lacked a skilled workforce. While the state was in the process of
being established, eight million Muslim refugees arrived from
India, who had to be absorbed into a population of 24 million
people. However, within 15 years, Pakistan was the fastest growing
and transforming economy in the developing world, although the
political evolution of the country during this period was not
equally successful. Pakistan has vast agricultural and human
resources, and its location promises trade, investment and other
opportunities. Chapters in the volume, written by experts in the
field, examine government and politics, economics, foreign policy
and environmental issues, as well as social aspects of Pakistan's
development, including 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 of the Punjab. He has also
served as Minister of Finance in the Government of Pakistan, and
has written a number of books, and journal and newspaper articles.
He joined the World Bank in 1974 as a senior economist and went on
to serve in several senior positions. He was the (first) Director
of the China Department (1987-94) and served as the Regional
Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean during 1994-99.
He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors 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 Foreign Affairs in the Government of Bangladesh
(2007-08). He has a PhD in international relations from the
Australian National University, Canberra. He began his career as a
member of the civil service of Pakistan in 1969. Dr Chowdhury has
held senior diplomatic positions in the course of his career,
including as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United
Nations in New York (2001-07) and in Geneva (1996-2001), and was
ambassador to Qatar, Chile, Peru and the Vatican. He is currently a
visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian
Studies, National University of Singapore. Asad Ejaz Butt is the
Director of the Burki Institute of Public Policy, Lahore, Pakistan.
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