Table of Contents

PART ONE: DEVELOPMENT UNDERMINED
Introduction
Towards a New Praxis for Sustainable Development in Asia - Poona Wignaraja
Catalyzing Alternative Development - D L Sheth
Values, the Knowledge System, Power
Ecology, Equity, and Self-Reliance - Vandana Shiva
Economic Growth and Endemic Poverty in India - K Sundaram
Bangladesh - W D Lakshman Lineages of Dependent Development: From State Control to the Open Economy in Sri LankaSyed M Hashemi
Aid Dependence and the Structure of Poverty
Behind the Veil of Growth - Akmal Hussain
The State of Pakistan′s Economy
PART TWO: REGIME DYNAMICS AND REGIONAL COOPERATION
Introduction
The Crisis of State Power in Pakistan - Akmal Hussain
Militarization and Dependence
Community Identity and Militarization in Sri Lanka
Social Origins of the Armed Forces and Tamil Militants
A. Sri Lankan Armed Forces - Newton Gunasinghe
B. Tamil Militants - Karthigesu Sivathamby
Annex
Ethnic Relations and Nation Building in Sri Lanka
An Agenda for a Nonviolent Solution
Indian Society - Harsh Sethi
Crisis and Responses
Islam, Ethnicity and Leadership in Pakistan - Akbar S Ahamad
Ideology and the Status of Women in Indian Society - Gowrie Ponniah
The Fate of the Ideology of the State in India - Ashis Nandy
SAARC and the Asymmetry Issue - Pran Chopra
SAARC - Q K Ahmad
Some Comments on the Evolution and Some Elements of a Future Agenda

About the Author

Ponna Wignaraja Chairman, South Asian Perspectives Network Association (SAPNA), Colombo. He served as Vice Chairman of the SAARC Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation (1992). During a career with the UN system of over four decades, Dr Wignaraja has held numerous advisory roles in the World Bank, IMF, the UN University, UNESCO, UNICEF, IFAD and UNRISD. He has pioneered development banking and poverty focussed institutions at national and local levels, both internationally and in South Asia. A prolific author, Dr Wignaraja has published more than eight books so far, including Women, Poverty and Resources; Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia (co-author); New Social Movements in the South (ed.); and Pro-poor Growth and Governance in South Asia (ed.). He is currently also involved in issues relating to conflict management transformation and negotiations for peace in several South Asian countries. In 1993, he was awarded the highest civilian honour for national service in Sri Lanka—Deshamanya.

Akmal Hussain has authored/co-authored several books on Pakistan’s economic development, including strategic issues in Pakistan’s Economic Policy, and more recently the UNDP, Pakistan National Human Development Report, 2003. He has also contributed to Pakistan’s macro-economic policy as an independent economist in the President’s Economic Advisory Board (1999–2002). Over the last decade he has helped establish institutions for poverty alleviation and participatory development at the village, provincial and national levels (the Punjab Rural Support Programme as its first honorary CEO and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund as a founding board member). He is currently senior fellow at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, and Member, Board of Governors, of the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (Dhaka).

Reviews

`... the book provides a deep insight into the process of economic development and regional cooperation in South Asian Nation States. All aspects of economic development are neatly and lucidly presented and the volume is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on this subject.′ - Margin `the contributors to the volume have posited alternative models of growth which could induce systematic stability instead of breeding forces of instability.′ - The Book Review