Public policy and agricultural transformation in Pakistan.

Abstract

Argues that by promoting policies favourable mainly to large landowners and traditional landlords governments have contributed to persistent income inequalities and rural poverty without raising the efficiency levels or increasing the tax revenues for the services needed by agriculture in general and the rural poor in particular. A major part of the argument is that certain key policy options have not been used effectively and that the others that have been used are contradictory to the goals of maximizing efficiency, equity, and revenues. There are concluding remarks by S.F.Imam. -from Author