The ‘success’ of a development project, it is generally accepted, is related to the feasibility of its objectives within the socioeconomic conditions of the context in which the programme is to be implemented. What remains less categorical however, is the correspondence between the...

My difficulties with this paper relate primarily to the methodology. Professor Christophe Jaffrelot has chosen to omit the section on Kashmir that figured in the version first presented at the Fourteenth Annual General Meeting, of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. The omission...

Worsley and his colleagues (1971) have drawn attention to the tendency in all traditional societies, to assume communal relations as `solidary' in nature. The structure of village cooperatives is presumed to reinforce the solidarity of those relations. Anthropological analyses, however, have...

Pakistan's development project that was initiated in the 1950s with a focus on creating a prosperous and quitable society, making the benefits of scientific advancement and progress available to all the people, got lost somewhere in the labyrinth of development fashions and econometric modelling...

There is no clear-cut, comprehensive or cohesive government policy on non-profit organisations in Pakistan. Policy documents talk about non-profit organisations (NPOs) in a piecemeal fashion. The overall posture of national government towards the non-profit sector ranges from indifference to...

Contrary to expectation, and the generally accepted belief that ethnicity defines one's primordial indentity and is, therefore, relevant and functional only in a pre-modem context, the phenomenon of ethnicity has surfaced in the modern world as a force more vital than class conflict and a source...