New Perspectives on Pakistan`s Political Economy, McCartney Matthew

Автор: Khan Rina Saeed
Название: From Mountains to Mangroves: Protecting Pakistan`s Natural Heritage
ISBN: 0199405468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199405466
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Pakistan is a geographical gem-a land with the greatest change in elevation within any sovereign state on earth, from 0 metres at Sonmiani Bay to 8,611 metres at the summit of K-2. Such dramatic changes in altitude have resulted in incredibly diverse ecosystems with wildlife ranging from snow
leopards up in the high mountains to marine turtles on the coast. This book, written by the pioneering Pakistani environmental journalist, Rina Saeed Khan, is an attempt to highlight some of this amazing diversity. From Mountains to Mangroves informs the reader about the many inspiring stories of
conservation activities taking place across Pakistan. The sixteen stories in the book are penned in an engaging, personal manner with rigorous research endorsed by WWF-Pakistan. An important record of the recent conservation history of Pakistan, these stories have been selected from the author's
many travels over the past two decades to far-flung areas ranging from the Karakoram Mountains to the Makran Coast.

Автор: S?nchez-Triana, Enriquez, Afzal,
Название: Cleaning Pakistan`S Air (210235)
ISBN: 1464802351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464802355
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The harm to Pakistanis health, economy, and environment from urban air pollution is among the highest in South Asia, exceeding several high-profile causes of mortality and morbidity in Pakistan. This report details a broad spectrum of research on Pakistan`s air quality management challenges and presents concrete steps to achieve improvements.

Автор: Abbas Shemeem Burney
Название: Pakistan`s Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Taliban
ISBN: 0292762127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292762121
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Under the guise of Islamic law, the prophet Muhammad’s Islam, and the Qur’an, states such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh are using blasphemy laws to suppress freedom of speech. Yet the Prophet never tried or executed anyone for blasphemy, nor does the Qur’an authorize the practice. Asserting that blasphemy laws are neither Islamic nor Qur‘anic, Shemeem Burney Abbas traces the evolution of these laws from the Islamic empires that followed the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present-day Taliban. Her pathfinding study on the shari’a and gender demonstrates that Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are the inventions of a military state that manipulates discourse in the name of Islam to exclude minorities, women, free thinkers, and even children from the rights of citizenship.

Abbas herself was persecuted under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, so she writes from both personal experience and years of scholarly study. Her analysis exposes the questionable motives behind Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which were resurrected during General Zia-ul-Haq’s regime of 1977–1988—motives that encompassed gaining geopolitical control of the region, including Afghanistan, in order to weaken the Soviet Union. Abbas argues that these laws created a state-sponsored “infidel” ideology that now affects global security as militant groups such as the Taliban justify violence against all “infidels” who do not subscribe to their interpretation of Islam. She builds a strong case for the suspension of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and for a return to the Prophet’s peaceful vision of social justice.

Автор: Siddiqa-Agha
Название: Pakistan`s Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99
ISBN: 0333731727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333731727
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This is an in-depth study of Pakistan`s security link with its arms suppliers and defence industrial capacity, and the influence of Pakistan`s Army on conventional and non-conventional defence decisions.

Автор: Haq & Safavian
Название: Are Pakistan`S Women Entrepreneurs Being Served By The Microfinance Sector
ISBN: 0821398334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821398333
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Financial services are important for women who are starting and growing a business, but in Pakistan microfinance providers (MFPs) are not reaching Pakistan's businesswomen. Only 59 percent of microfinance clients are women, yet the majority of these loans are passed on the male members of the household - husbands, fathers, and sons. The practice of passing on loans to male household members is quite widespread; women may be bearing all the transaction costs and risks of accessing loans, but are not the final beneficiaries. Second, a very low proportion of female microfinance clients are entrepreneurs. The report explores why businesswomen in Pakistan may not be using microfinance products to meet their start-up and working capital requirements, in spite of identifying access to finance as a key constraint to their business operations. <br><br>Against this backdrop, access to finance remains the biggest challenge for a woman who wants to start or grow a business. Yet less than a quarter of the entrepreneurs identified through business development service providers were currently borrowing from microfinance lenders. Even among those entrepreneurs that borrow, dissatisfaction is high. Why?<br><br>Women borrower-entrepreneurs are not able to access individual loan products, but instead are consistently relegated to group lending. But group loans are very costly for a woman who is running a business, and the loans are too small to fulfil working capital needs. Businesswomen are rarely given the opportunity to access individual loan products, which are usually offered exclusively to male borrowers, and women are not given opportunities to graduate from group loans to individual loans over time. Lending practices often are discriminatory, requiring husbands' permission, male guarantors, and unmarried women are rarely considered as potential clients.<br><br>Although MFIs understand that women's inclusion is integral to the objectives of microfinance, the practice of passing on loans raises serious issues about consumer protection for women clients, and the best and most effective solutions to these challenges could and should come from the sector itself. Designing better products that reach the needs of emerging women entrepreneurs could prove to be good business, achieving double bottom-line objectives. Investing in financial literacy and education of both men and women borrowers can help curb the demand for pass-through loans and help lower risks associated with deceptive practices.

Автор: Ispahani Farahnaz
Название: Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan`s Religious Minorities
ISBN: 0190621656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190621650
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In Purifying the Land of the Pure, Farahnaz Ispahani analyzes Pakistan`s policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim and non-Muslim, since independence in 1947.

Автор: Samir Puri
Название: Pakistan`s War on Terrorism: Strategies for Combating Jihadist Armed Groups since 9/11
ISBN: 041572127X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415721271
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines Pakistan`s strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups from late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.

Автор: Nosheen Ali
Название: Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan`s Northern Frontier
ISBN: 1108497446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108497442
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The first in-depth study of state power and social struggle in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested border zone that forms part of disputed Kashmir. The book movingly captures citizenship struggles in present-day Pakistan, offering distinct contributions to studies of militarism, Muslim cultural politics, and development in South Asia.

Автор: Mufti Mariam, Shafqat Sahar, Siddiqui Niloufer
Название: Pakistan`s Political Parties: Surviving Between Dictatorship and Democracy
ISBN: 1626167710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626167711
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Pakistan`s Political Parties examines how the civilian side of the state`s current regime has survived the transition to democracy, providing insight into the evolution of political parties in Pakistan and their role in developing democracies in general. This overview is a one-of-a-kind resource.