Pakistan
Two books explain almost everything an investor needs: kinship and patronage as the operating system, and the army as the largest business group in the country.
7 books
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- Pakistan: A Hard CountryAnatol Lieven, 2011
- Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military EconomyAyesha Siddiqa, 2007
- Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist StateIshrat Husain, 1999
Books 7
Ishrat Husain · 1999 · By a later central bank governor; the structural diagnosis that still holds.
Anatol Lieven · 2011 · Kinship networks, patronage and why the state is weaker and more durable than it looks.
Ayesha Jalal · 2014 · Why the security state crowded out the productive economy from the start.
Ayesha Siddiqa · 2007 · The army's foundations, land and industrial holdings mapped for the first time.
Shuja Nawaz · 2008 · The army's internal history; essential for reading political risk here.
Maleeha Lodhi · 2011 · Practitioner essays on energy, taxation, banking and the reform agenda.
Ishrat Husain · 2018 · Insider on why Pakistani institutional reform keeps failing at implementation.