Story of Sindh remain­s incomp­lete withou­t bringi­ng out socio-politi­cal underp­inning­s of develo­pment proces­s‘The Economy of Modern Sindh’ is the title of a recent book from the Oxford University Press, authored by Ishrat Husain, Aijaz Qureshi and Nadeem Hussain. What began as the updating of a similarly titled book by the venerable Ishrat Hussain in 1981 has turned out to be an impressive compendium of the economy of Sindh. The story of Sindh – a politically conscious province – remains incomplete without bringing out the socio-political underpinnings of the development process. Curiously, rural Sindh is not productive due to ignorance and disease and the urban Sindh is not productive despite a better score on human development. A tough but necessary call for a ‘new’ modern Sindh.

Source: The Express Tribune March 22, 2019 04:49 UTC