Product Description A case-study of Pakistan's economic development during the past fifty years, which demonstrates that the benefit of this development has predominantly affected a small class of the elite, while the majority of the population remains illiterate, poor, and backward. Review `This book has raised very relevant issues for the Pakistani economy.'Sanjay Kumar, Economic and Political Weekly 17/7/99 About the Author Ishrat Husain is Country Director, Central Asia, World Bank.