Stability Instability Paradox
Medha Bisht
PAKISTAN: MOVING THE ECONOMY FORWARD by Rashid Amjad Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, 2015, 398 pp., $110.00
July 2015, volume 39, No 7

Given the plethora of debates that have come up in the last few years on the stability of Pakistan, Paki¬stan: Making The Economy Move Forward, makes an attempt to address this key stabil¬ity-instability paradox, by critically examin¬ing the strengths and faultlines of Pakistan’s economy. This volume by Rashid Amjad and Shahid Javed Burki has not only been able to successfully capture the complexities of economics and politics, but has also been able to address and go beyond overarching structural questions which often impede the analyses of the South Asian states in general.

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