Essential Reading : Center for Global Development : Initiatives: Active: U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan

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
II. Multilateral Donor Experience in Pakistan
III. U.S. Assistance and Aid Effectiveness
IV. Energy, Water, and Infrastructure
V. Pakistan Economy
VI. Trade
VII. Social Sectors in Pakistan
VIII. Development and Security in the Tribal Regions

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. “Country Assistance Program Evaluation: Pakistan.” Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank (May 2007).

Birdsall, Nancy, Adeel Malik, and Milan Vaishnav. “Poverty and the Social Sectors: The World Bank in Pakistan 1990–2003.” Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C. (August 2005).

World Bank. “Pakistan: An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance.” Independent Evaluation Group (2006).

III. US Assistance and Aid Effectiveness

Fair, C. Christine. “Time for Sober Realism: Renegotiating U.S. Relations with Pakistan.” The Washington Quarterly 32(2):149–172.

Fair, C. Christine. “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. “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. “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. “How to Save Pakistan.” Slate (April 27, 2009).

Wilder, Andrew. “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.), 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.), 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. “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.), 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.), Running on Empty: Pakistan’s Water Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009.

V. Pakistan Economy

Asian Development Bank. 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.), Islamization and the Pakistani Economy. Washington, D.C.: Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2004.

Qayyum, Abdul, Idrees Khwaja, and Asma Hyder. “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. Strengthening the U.S.-Pakistan Economic Partnership: Policy Recommendations to the Obama Administration and to Members of Congress (2009).

World Bank. Pakistan Economic Update (September 2009).

VI. Trade

Bolle, Mary Jane. “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. “Sustaining Reform With a US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement.” Peterson Institute for International Economics (November 2006).

Birdsall, Nancy, Adeel Malik, and Milan Vaishnav. “Poverty and the Social Sectors: The World Bank in Pakistan 1990–2003.” Center for Global Development (October 15, 2009).

Rasmussen, Stephen F, et al. “Scaling Up Rural Support Programmes in Pakistan.” In Deepa Narayan and Elena Glinskaya (eds), Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2007.

Ashraf, Naseem. “The Islamization of Pakistan’s Educational System: 1979–1989.” Middle East Institute (2009).