This collection archives books written or edited by the faculty of Institute of Business Administration.
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Adjustment in Africa: lessons from country case studies
Ishrat Husain and Rashid Faruqee
This report provides an assessment of structural adjustment policies undertaken by seven African countries in the mid-1980s. This report is distinct from other studies on this subject. First, it emphasizes the specific economic and social circumstances of each country that led to the adoption of an adjustment program. Second, it measures and analyzes the extent to which the adjustment policies were, in fact, implemented in each case. Finally, the report attempts to assess economic performance in relation to the strength of the implementation of policy reforms.
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The political economy of healthcare in Pakistan
S. Akbar Zaidi
This book deals with one of the most essential conditions of human existence: the health of individuals and society. The author has described the multi-faceted structure of health care in Pakistan at great length and has then identified and highlighted the results of this health system on the people of the country. He uses a Marxist framework and shows how the exploitation and domination of a small minority in the economic structure of society is mirrored in the health structure of the country. He argues that the existing economic and political situation in Pakistan has resulted in a model of health care which is elitist, western-oriented, and suited to the needs of a handful of well-to-do people.
The author shows how this elitist bias is predominant in the numerous layers of the model, and issues, such as medical education, the social background of medical students, the geographical location of health facilities and doctors, etc., are all analyzed within this perspective. He shows convincingly, that the goal "health for all by the year 2000", given the existing class structure in Pakistan, is an impossibility. To achieve health for all, or for even the majority of the people in Pakistan or any other underdeveloped capitalist country, one needs, as a prerequisite, to change the existing economic, social and political structure which gives birth to the particular inequitable model of health care. Only then can one have the beginnings of a more just and equitable society and hope for health for all.
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Guar gum and guar meal: a research study
Abdul Ghani Saeed
Research is a systematic and objective search for, and analysis of, information relevant to identification and solution of problems. Hence, by definition, it is one of the most difficulty things to do in a developing country, where very little information is available in publication form. Whatever data is available from secondary sources is inconsistent and, sometimes, even inaccurate. Often the form of presentation is not standardized causing innumerable hardship to the researcher.