A Cry for Justice

Empirical Insights from Balochistan
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-940804-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Balochistan is clichéd as the largest province of Pakistan, with the smallest population, and with vast natural resources. This is indeed true. It is also true that with just 1.5 million families, Balochistan-at one job per family-needs just 1.5 million jobs. Yet the province is abjectly under-developed, with virtually absent physical infrastructure and abysmally low social development indicators. Unemployment and poverty even hunger is rampant. Local discontent and anger over the state of affairs has repeatedly boiled over into insurgencies, with one under way currently.

A Cry for Justice empirically documents five different aspects of under-development and deprivation in Balochistan: gas pricing, federal development expenditure, federal social protection, federal civil service, and structure of electoral representation. It is the first attempt to detail the facts of systematic economic exploitation, discrimination, and neglect that Balochistan has shouldered and continues to face-minus the fiction of imagined wrongs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bengali, Kaiser

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Boxes, Charts, and Tables

- List of Maps

- Acknowledgements

- Note on Photographs

- Foreword

- Preface

- 1 The Great Gas Grievance

- 2 Chronic Development Deficit

- 3 Deficit in Social Protection

- 4 Imbalance in Services

- 5 Representational Imbalances

- Epilogue

- Annexures

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Kaiser Bengali is an economist with over 35 years of experience in teaching, research, and policy advisory. He has a Masters in Economics from the Boston University, USA, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Karachi, Pakistan.He has been associated with prestigious institutions in Pakistan such as the AERC, University of Karachi, SDPI, SZABIST, PILER, and was Managing Director of the SPDC, Karachi.

Dr Bengali's international academic and consultancy experience includes work at the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Developpment, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, and with international organizations in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, and Kenya.

He has also held a number of government positions and has served as Head of the Chief Minister's Policy Reform Unit, Government of Balochistan, and Advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh for Planning and Development.