S
Shahid Javed Burki
Researcher at National University of Singapore
Publications - 31
Citations - 1162
Shahid Javed Burki is an academic researcher from National University of Singapore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Decentralization. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1141 citations.
Papers
More filters
BookDOI
Beyond the Washington Consensus : institutions matter
TL;DR: The authors examines the precise nature of the required institutional reforms needed to achieve higher sustained rates of growth and to make a dent in poverty reduction and provides a framework for their design and implementation.
BookDOI
Beyond the center - decentralizing the State
Shahid Javed Burki,Guillermo Perry,William Dillinger,Charles Griffin,Jeffrey Gutman,Fernando Rojas,Steven B. Webb,Donald Winkler +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government, and examine the decentralization transformation of government structures in Latin America, which, since 1983, has largely transferred power, resources, and, responsibilities, to the local level.
Decentralization and accountability of the public sector
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for fiscal federalism, sectoral issues, and local financing and management capacity for developing countries to realize the power of globalization, that is, getting their citizens involved in their own development and defining their own future, is presented.
Book
Pakistan ; Fifty Years of Nationhood
TL;DR: In this article, political development: Continuing Search for Stability, Economic Development: Continuing Postponement of Structural Change, Social Development: Missed Opportunities, Governance, Corruption, and Development: Some Major Obstacles to Growth and Modernization, Foreign Relations: Searching for a New Identity, An Uncertain Future
Book
Pakistan under Bhutto, 1971-1977
TL;DR: In this article, the Bhutto regime in power, 1971-7: restructuring institutions redirecting economic development - management by the PPP left economic decision-making without constraints, 1974-7.