A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan - Couverture rigide

Sultan, Atiyab

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108832636 ISBN 13 : 9781108832632

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This book examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicise theories of institutional change and community development. It advances the economic history of the region by analysing microeconomic reform in the province. A close examination of programmes of rural reconstruction in colonial Punjab reveals stark parallels with more contemporary prescriptions of development economics. Simultaneously, a study of the trajectory of legislative change sheds light on the institutional legacies of colonial rule. It engages deeply with the theoretical scholarship on development and rural uplift that emerges in this period and develops an intellectual genealogy that links colonialism to development studies. It questions the continued valorisation of the 'community' despite a lack of supportive evidence and argues that one reason for the continued popularity of ideas of community development and institutional malaise is that both absolve the status quo from blame.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Atiyab Sultan is a career civil servant in the Pakistan Administrative Service currently serving as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108832636
• ISBN 13: 9781108832632
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; France