Pakistan

Rashid Amjad is Director of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies at the Lahore School of Economics, and former vice-chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE). Shahid Javed Burki retired from the World Bank in 1999 after having served in a number of senior positions including as director of the Bank's China operations and regional vice-president of its Latin America and Caribbean office. Since 2008, he has been a visiting senior fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.

• 1. Overview Rashid Amjad and Shahid Javed Burki; 2. Failed economic promise: lessons from Pakistan's development experience Parvez Hassan; 3. Economic management under IMF tutelage: key lessons from the Musharraf and PPP rule, 1999–2013 Rashid Amjad; 4. A country and an economy in transition Shahid Javed Burki; 5. Tackling the energy crisis Afia Malik; 6. Exports: lessons from the past and the way forward Hamna Ahmed, Naved Hamid and Mahreen Mahmud; 7. The future path of tax reforms in Pakistan Hafiz A. Pasha and Aisha Ghaus-Pasha; 8. Pakistan's Indus basin water strategy: past, present and future Shahid Amjad Chaudhry; 9. Economic governance and institutional reforms Ishrat Hussain; 10. Benefiting from foreign direct investment Khalil Hamdani; 11. An analysis of the remittances market in Pakistan Rashid Amjad, M. Irfan and G. M. Arif; 12. The prospects for Indo-Pakistan trade Hafiz A. Pasha and Muhammad Imran; 13. Beyond the poverty line: a multidimensional analysis of poverty in Pakistan Azam Chaudhry, Theresa Chaudhry, Muhammad Haseeb and Uzma Afzal; 14. Can the new intergovernmental structure work in Pakistan? Learning from China Ehtisham Ahmed.