"This book provides a comprehensive reassessment of the development of the economy of Pakistan since independence to the present. It employs a rigorous statistical methodology, which has applicability to other developing economies, to define and measure episodes of growth and stagnation, and to...

1. Introduction -- 2. A methodological critique and framework -- 3. Episodes of growth and stagnation in Pakistan, 1951-2008 -- 4. Theoretical framework -- 5. An episode of growth, 1951/52-1958/59 -- 6. An episode of growth, 1960/61-1969/70 -- 7. An episode of stagnation, 1970/71-1991/92 -- 8....