Poverty, Institutions, Growth

Books Authored and Co-authored by Dr. Akmal Hussain:

• Strategic Issues In Pakistan's Economic Policy (authored)
• Poverty Alleviation In Pakistan (authored)
• Pakistan National Human Development Report, UNDP, 2003:
  Poverty, Growth and Governance (authored)
• Power Dynamics, Institutional Instability and Economics Growth. The Case of Pakistan, The Asia Foundation, 2008 (authored)

Chapters Contributed by Dr. Akmal Hussain

• Behind the Veil of Growth: The State of Pakistan's Economy
• Poverty, Power and Local Government in Pakistan
• Participatory Development Praxis in Pakistan’s Punjab: A Case Study
• Pakistan: Land Reforms Reconsidered
• Poverty, Growth and Governance in South Asia
• Lessons for Macro-Micro Policy
• A Policy for Pro Poor Growth
• Institutions, Economic Structure and Poverty in Pakistan
• Imperialism
• Economic Policy, Growth And Poverty In Historical Perspective: The Encyclopedia of Pakistan
• Peace, Poverty and Economic Growth in South Asia: A Policy Framework
• Participatory Development Praxis: A Case Study from Pakistan’s Punjab.
• Pakistan’s Economy in Historical Perspective: Growth, Power and Poverty
• A Perspective on Pakistan's Economic History: Growth, Economic Structure and Governance
• Agrarian Structure and Social Change
• The Green Revolution
• Land Reforms
• Institutions, Economic Growth, and Participatory Development
• Contemporary Challenges and Civilizational Wellsprings
• Strengthening Democracy through Inclusive Growth
• Meeting the Challenge of Demographic Change through Equitable Development
• Priority Policy Initiatives for Development
• Pakistan: Charting a New Course to Development

Reports Authored by Dr. Akmal Hussain

• PRSP - Punjab Rural Support Programme: The First Four Months, December 1998.
• Overcoming Poverty: The Report of the Task Force on Poverty Eradication, Government of Pakistan, May 30, 1997.
• Report of the Working Group on Poverty Alleviation, Ninth Five Year Plan, 1998-2003, Planning Commission,  March 1998.
• Employment Generation, Poverty Alleviation and Growth in Pakistan’s Rural Sector: Policies for Institutional Change, Report prepared for the International Labour Organization, Country Employment Policy Review (CEPR): March 1999.
• Report of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation,  Government of Pakistan, 2004.
• Report of the Working Group on Institutional Framework for Development, Panel of Economists, Government of Pakistan, 21 June 2009.  
• Report of the Working Group on Poverty Reduction Strategy and Human Resource Development for the Tenth Five Year Plan (2010-15), Planning Commission, 5 January 2010
• Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Analytical Basis and Policy Framework

Seminar Papers Presented by Dr. Akmal Hussain at Various Seminars and Conferences

• The Global Economic Crisis and South Asia
• A Policy Framework for Growth through Poverty Reduction
• BATTLING EXTREMISM: POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR GROWTH THROUGH POVERTY REDUCTION
• Institutional Imperatives of Poverty Reduction
• Devolution for Empowering the Poor: Institutions, Norms and Power
• Participatory Development Praxis in Pakistan’s Punjab: A Case Study
• Agriculture Growth and Poverty Reduction: A Policy Perspective
• Rising Poverty Trends: Causes and Remedies
• Taking South Asia Forward: Growth, Poverty and Peace
• Peace, Poverty and Economic Growth in South Asia: A Policy Framework
• A Policy for Pro Poor Growth in Pakistan
• Pakistan’s Economy: Current Situation and Future Prospects
• Regional Economic Disparity in Pakistan and A Framework for Regional Policy
• Rural Industrialization: Economic Logic and Institutional Requirements
• Sustainable Development in Pakistan
• Economic Growth, Poverty and the Child
• The State and Causes of Poverty: A Note on Rural Poverty and Agrarian Structure in Pakistan

Newspaper Articles (Essays) by Dr. Akmal Hussain

Articles Published in the Daily Times

• Respecting institutions
• Governance, Growth and Inequality
• Is GDP Growth Sustainable?
• Questioning the Poverty Figure
• Questioning the Official Truth
• The Constitution and the Nation
• Questioning the poverty figure
• A new paradigm for overcoming poverty
• Consciousness, poverty and power
• Endogenous and exogenous norms, and some questions
• A Policy for Pro poor growth
• Crisis in agriculture
• Development through agricultural research
• Economic growth through small scale enterprises
• Economics for the twenty first century
• Growth, poverty and power in South Asia
• Health and poverty
• IMF programs and poverty in South Asia
• Imperialism and the nature of economic growth
• Institutions, Individuals and The National Crisis
  Z.A. Bhutto: The Semiotics Of Charisma
• Institutions, individuals and the national crisis
  Ayub Regime
• Institutions, individuals and the national crisis
  The Z.A. Bhutto regime
• Institutions, individuals and the national crisis
  The Zia regime (1977-1989)
• Is Pakistan's economy at "Take Off"?
• Overcoming poverty in rural Punjab: A field report
• The knife edge of fiscal space
• The wasteland
• What determines investment?
• Questioning the official truth
• Pro poor growth: Concept, measurement and strategy
• Land reforms for sustainable democracy
• Land for the landless
• Is Imperialism obsolete?
• Imperialism and the changing structure of the Global Economy
• Pakistan's poor export performance: 
  The social origins of economic behaviour
• Policy challenges for industrial revival
• Public institutions and individual power: 1990s
• Questioning the IMF prescription
• Restructuring growth for faster poverty reduction
• Reviving investment in the shadows of war
• Stabilization without growth or poverty reduction?
• Structural constraints to the growth of agriculture and industry
• Institutions, individuals and the national crisis
  The 1990s: Misgovernance and the economy
• The budget, growth and poverty
• The economy: Apparent versus the real
• The imperatives of economic revival
• The question of regional economic disparity
• Water: The imperative of national survival

Articles Published in the Daily Dawn

• A medium term strategy of economic revival
• Economics and economic policy in the new millennium
• State of the Economy
• Fallacy of poverty reduction
• Unstable growth and poverty
• First aid for the poor.
• Beyond the IMF

Article published in the Herald Magazine

• The political economy of poverty alleviation.

Articles Published in the News

• Land reforms, economic revival and decentralization
• Pakistan and the new world war
• The Political Economy Of Economic Revival
• Strategic dimensions of economic revival and poverty eradication
• The strategy of economic revival and poverty alleviation: The challenge of implementation
• The water crisis
• Equality: Fulfilling the Pakistan Vision
• Land to the Tiller
• Corporations for the Poor
• The Roots of Underdevelopment
• Towards Transformation
• Rethinking IMF Programs
• Social Capital
• The Injustice of Inequality

Article published in the Nawa-e-Waqat

• Issues for twenty first century economics and economic policy

Article Published in the Journal, NGORC

• Microfinance: Not a panacea for poverty
  Interview of Dr. Akmal Hussain published in the Journal of NGO Resource Centre

Articles Published in the Friday Times

• PAKISTAN’S ECONOMY: THE WAY FORWARD
• Debt for human development swap
• Lifting sanctions: Imperatives of a new epoch
• The budget and the state

Articles Published in the Nation

• Achieving higher growth of output and employment in the rural sector
• The Millennium Challenge to economics and global economic policy
• Facing the Poverty Crisis

Articles Published in the Express Tribune

• Reconstruction for economic democracy
• The path to real change
• Changing the social order
• Origins of the world economic crisis
• Towards a new global financial architecture: an agenda for action
• The budget and food security
• Reviving the economy
• The budget and growth
• A framework for economic growth?
• Sustainable development
• Floods, humanity, institutions
• Questionable poverty estimates
• Growth through equity
• The challenge of real change
• An agenda for change
• Inequality and human potential
• Development: new dimensions
• Governance model and "mehrangate"
• The demographic knife edge
• Health and development
• Eurozone's policy dilemma
• GDP growth: only way out of the mess
• Europe’s decisive moment
• Towards economic change
• Economic growth and the university
• Violence, institutions and the state
• The economics of corruption
• IMF and economic revival
• Rethinking structural adjustment
• Budgeting on a knife edge
• Agrarian reforms
• World economy at a watershed
• Basic services for all
• Stabilization without growth
• Initiating inclusive growth
• Mainstreaming the poor
• Can Pakistan prosper