Growth Fault Lines in Developing World

ISBN-13: 9783659478086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 136 str.

Khan Nasir

Opis

Developing countries have, by and large, failed to convert sporadic episodes of glorious growth into sustained development frameworks. The tremendous economic growth during the development decade of 1960s in Pakistan provides a good instantiation of this fact. The decade is known as development decade in the history of the country. However, the growth failed to mitigate miseries of the masses which ultimately led to momentous events at the turn of the decade. The ensuing circumstances at the end of the countrys glorious development decade make it an appropriate case for assessment through an alternative development approach, outside the purely income centred measurements. Capability approach of Nobel laureate Amartya K. Sen is one such alternative evaluative framework which scores a definite advantage over traditional welfare measurements due to its vast informational space. Accordingly, the book attempts to assess the extent to which Pakistans development of the 1960s qualifies Sens capability approach to see as to what explanations the capability approach offer for the events at the end of the decade and the failure of the adopted policies to achieve sustainability.

O autorze

Dr. Nasir Khan has a PhD degree in development studies from University of Auckland, New Zealand and three Post Graduate degrees in Development Studies, Economics and Statistics. Nasir s research interests include multidimensionality of poverty, social structures and distributional justice.