Pakistan's Development Priorities: Choices for the FutureShahid Javed Burki, Robert LaPorte, Robert Laporte Conference papers, interdisciplinary research studies of economic development problems and development policy options in Pakistan - discusses political developments and social environment; examines development potential of irrigation for agricultural development, and industrial development, role of fiscal policy in economic growth, population policy and labour force emigration; comments on development administration, the impact of institutional framework on agricultural production, and the development role of mass media. References, statistical tables. |
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A Historical Perspective on Development | 15 |
Potential for Irrigated Agricultural Development | 45 |
The Potential for Industrial Development | 84 |
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activities administrative system agricultural allocation areas Ayub Ayub Khan barani benefits Bhutto Burki canal colony census cent per annum cited in note consumption costs crop decision-making developing countries domestic drainage economic development effective eighties emigration employment estimated expenditure export family planning farm farmers fertility finance foodgrain Government of Pakistan green revolution groups growth rate households impact important improve income increase industry infrastructure inputs institutions investment irrigation Islamabad Kalabagh dam Karachi Khan labour force Lahore land M. H. Khan major mass media ment Middle East migration million NWFP output performance period political population growth potential problems production programme projects provincial public sector Punjab radio reforms remittances revenues role rural development seventies Shahid Javed Burki sixties social society strategy structure subsidies Table television tenants tion tubewells urban wage West Pakistan workers World Bank