Towards Balanced Development in Pakistan (Distinguishedl Lecture)

Authors

  • Graham Pyatt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30541/v31i4pp.407-429

Abstract

The United Nations Development Programme has recently launched an annual series of Human Development Reports (HDRs) see UNDP (1990-annual). This event marks a major initiative to broaden the debate over development strategies and, in particular, to secure a greater emphasis within that debate on people and their circumstances. From the outset the Human Development Reports have documented the fact that the correlations between economic growth and improvements in health, education and other social indicators are not necessarily close, although there are obvious causal links which can be traced in both directions. In particular, there are countries for which the economic growth performance has been more impressive than the gains which are suggested by various social indicators. Pakistan is a case in point and this paper reports on an effort to first understand why this might be, and then to develop a framework within which to structure the issues arising as an initial step towards the redesign of policies.

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2022-12-23

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Towards Balanced Development in Pakistan (Distinguishedl Lecture). (2022). The Pakistan Development Review, 31(4), pp.407-429. https://doi.org/10.30541/v31i4pp.407-429