Essential Reading

Listed here are some of the articles and books that the study group has found especially helpful in understanding the challenges of development in Pakistan. Click on a theme to skip ahead or download the whole list as printer-friendly PDF.

I. Pakistan General Reading

Easterly, William. “The Political Economy of Growth without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan.” Paper for the Analytical Narratives of Growth Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (June 2001).

Paris, Jonathan. “Prospects for Pakistan.” Legatum Institute (2010).

II. Multilateral Donor Experience in Pakistan

Asian Development Bank. “ href="http://www.adb.org/Documents/CAPES/PAK/CAPE-PAK-2007/CAPE-PAK-2007.asp">Country
Assistance Program Evaluation: Pakistan.” Operations Evaluation Department,
Asian Development Bank (May 2007).

Birdsall, Nancy, Adeel Malik, and Milan Vaishnav. “ href="http://www.cgdev.org/doc/commentary/birdsall/Poverty_SocialSectors.pdf">Poverty
and the Social Sectors: The World Bank in Pakistan 1990–2003.” Center for
Global Development, Washington, D.C. (August 2005).

World Bank. “ href="http://lnweb90.worldbank.org/oed/oeddoclib.nsf/DocUNIDViewForJavaSearch/88F4238DA5D1176885257122006C11DC/$file/pakistan_cae.pdf">Pakistan:
An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance.” Independent Evaluation Group
(2006).

III. US Assistance and Aid Effectiveness

Fair, C. Christine. “ href="http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Fair.pdf">Time for Sober Realism:
Renegotiating U.S. Relations with Pakistan.” The Washington Quarterly 32(2):149–172.

Fair, C. Christine. “ href="http://home.comcast.net/~christine_fair/index.html">U.S. Aid to Pakistan:
Planning and Accountability: Testimony presented before the House Subcommittee
on National Security and Foreign Affairs.” December 9, 2009.

Ibrahim, Azeem. “ href="http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Final_DP_2009_06_08092009.pdf">U.S.
Aid to Pakistan—U.S. Taxpayers Have Funded Pakistani Corruption.” Belfer
Center Discussion Paper #2009-06. International Security Program, Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
(July 2009).

Schafer, Teresita. “ href="http://csis.org/files/media/csis/congress/ts071206_sfrcusaid.pdf">U.S.
Assistance to Pakistan: Testimony before the Subcommittee on International
Development, Foreign Assistance, and International Environmental Protection,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.” December 6, 2007.

Schmidle, Nicholas. “ href="http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2216991">How to
Save Pakistan.” Slate (April 27, 2009).

Wilder, Andrew. “ href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/sbhrap/news/Wilder_PakistanAidTestimony_12_9_09.pdf">U.S.
Aid to Pakistan: Planning and Accountability. House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs.” December
9, 2009.

IV. Energy, Water, and Infrastructure

Burki, Shahid Javed. “The Weight of History: Pakistan’s
Energy Problem.” In Hathaway (ed.), href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Asia_FuelingtheFuture_rptmain.pdf">Fueling
the Future: Meeting Pakistan’s Energy Needs in the 21^st Century.
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2007.

Vucetic, Vladislav, and Achilles G. Adamantiades. “Power
Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Issues and Challenges.” In Hathaway (ed.), href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Asia_FuelingtheFuture_rptmain.pdf">Fueling
the Future: Meeting Pakistan’s Energy Needs in the 21^st Century.
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2007.

Fraser, Julia M. “ href="http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/240338/Lessons%20from%20the%20Independent%20Private%20Power%20Experience%20in%20Pakistan.pdf">Lessons
from the Independent Private Power Experience in Pakistan.” Energy and
Mining Sector Board Discussion Paper No. 14. World Bank (May 2005).

Kamal, Simi. “Pakistan’s Water Challenges: Entitlement,
Access, Efficiency and Equity.” In Kugelman (ed.), href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ASIA_090422_Running%20on%20Empty_web.pdf">Running
on Empty: Pakistan’s Water Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009.

Khan, Feisal. “Water, Governance and Corruption in
Pakistan.” In Kugelman (ed.), href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ASIA_090422_Running%20on%20Empty_web.pdf">Running
on Empty: Pakistan’s Water Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, 2009.

V. Pakistan Economy

Asian Development Bank. href="http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2009/update/pak.pdf">Pakistan
Economic Outlook (2009).

Burki, Shahid Javed. Changing Perceptions, Altered
Reality: Pakistan’s Economy under Musharraf, 1999–2006. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007.

Husain, Ishrat. “The Economy of Pakistan: Past, Present, and
Future.” In Hathaway and Lee (eds.), href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Asia.Pakistan_econ.pdf">Islamization
and the Pakistani Economy. Washington, D.C.: Wilson International Center
for Scholars, 2004.

Qayyum, Abdul, Idrees Khwaja, and Asma Hyder. “ href="http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/Working%20Paper/WorkingPaper-47.pdf">Growth
Diagnostics in Pakistan.” PIDE Working Paper 2008: 47. Pakistan Institute
of Development Economics, Islamabad (2008).

US-Pakistan Business Council and the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce. href="http://www.uschamber.com/NR/rdonlyres/eyhho4hsycm24jnny5ifqkivaj7q45amqwjcybw5vujsm36mh6cnzdymgttypkxl74sz2sklwixj3ujcp44rlwwww7h/0903uspbc_report.pdf">Strengthening
the U.S.-Pakistan Economic Partnership: Policy Recommendations to the Obama
Administration and to Members of Congress (2009).

World Bank. href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/PAKISTANEXTN/Resources/293051-1241610364594/PakistanEconomicUpdateOctober2009.pdf">Pakistan
Economic Update (September 2009).

VI. Trade

Bolle, Mary Jane. “ href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40627.pdf">Afghanistan and Pakistan
Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs), H.R. 1318/H.R. 1886/H.R. 2410 and S.
496: Issues and Arguments.” Congressional Research Service (October 15,
2009).

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde, and Shahid Javed Burki. “ href="http://bookstore.piie.com/book-store/3950.html">Sustaining Reform With a
US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement.” Peterson Institute for International
Economics (November 2006).

Rasmussen, Stephen F, et al. “Scaling Up Rural Support
Programmes in Pakistan.” In Deepa Narayan and Elena Glinskaya (eds), href="http://lnweb90.worldbank.org/EXT/epic.nsf/ImportDocs/ED60549042883C8F0025734500398729?opendocument&query=SN">Ending
Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work. Washington, D.C.: World
Bank, 2007.

Ashraf, Naseem. “ href="http://www.mei.edu/Portals/0/Publications/Nasim_the_islamization_of_Pakistans_educational_system.pdf">The
Islamization of Pakistan’s Educational System: 1979–1989.” Middle East
Institute (2009).

VIII. Development and Security in the Tribal Regions

USAID Office of Inspector General. “ href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/images/100128_USAID_OIG_FATA_Audit.pdf">Audit
of USAID/Pakistan’s Capacity building for the Federally Administered Tribal
Areas Development Program” (issued January, 2010).

FATA Civil Secretariat. “ href="http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/documents/Booklet_on_FATA_SDP_2006_-_15.pdf">FATA
Sustainable Development Plan: 2007–2015.” Northwest Frontier Province,
Government of Pakistan (2006).

International Crisis Group. “ href="http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6356">Pakistan: Countering
Militancy in FATA.” Asia Report No. 178 (October 2009).

Markey, Daniel. “ href="http://www.cfr.org/publication/16763/securing_pakistans_tribal_belt.html">Securing
Pakistan’s Tribal Belt.” Council on Foreign Relations Special Report No. 36
(August 2008).

Nawaz, Shuja. “ href="http://csis.org/publication/fata-most-dangerous-place">FATA – A Most
Dangerous Place: Meeting the Challenges of Militancy and Terror in the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.” Center for Strategic and
International Studies (January 2009).