Limiting the Unlimited

Sabur Ghayur

Price:   US $ 20.0, SING $ 25.0, Rs. 350.0

ISBN:             

SBN:    04012002-0001

Cover:  Paper back.

Size:     8” x 5.5”

The “limiting the unlimited” – bad governance, corruption, exclusion, illiteracy, mismanagement, poverty and unemployment – is an attempt in to highlight the areas of concerns and also put forward remedial measures. Though, mainly focusing on the current malaise in Pakistan, the issues identified nonetheless are reflective of the situation prevailing in a vast majority of developing countries and equally applicable are the proposed remedial measures. It is believed that an adequate attention to the set of recommendations as contained in different chapters in the nine main, and opening and concluding sections will go a long way towards good governance, and beneficial and sustainable development. Opening with a wake up call in the form of an allegory, the nine sections are: i) pearls of wisdom, ii) setting the tone, iii) the challenges – I (national), iv) the challenges-II (global), v) the economy, vi) employment, poverty and vocational training, vii) election 1997, viii) corruption, and ix) good governance. It concludes with a section on “the vital link”.

Except the opening section that carries a paper, in the form of an allegory, presented on the occasion of an international conference on the national poet “Iqbal” – popularly known as poet of the East, rest of the book comprises of a selection of newspaper articles appearing in Pakistan during 1993-2001. Incidentally, this year (2002) has been declared as the “year of Iqbal”. A truly befitting tribute to him would be none else than ordering the very process of development and governance.