UNRAVELLING GORDIAN KNOTS

THE WORKS AND WORLDS OF DR. ISHRAT HUSSAIN

By SIBTAIN NAQVI

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Unravelling Gordian Knots explores the life and times of Dr. Ishrat Husain, from his earliest days in a refugee camp in newly made Pakistan to his impactful tenures in the civil services, World Bank, State Bank of Pakistan, academia and institutional reform. A sweeping story, the biography touches upon the key moments in Pakistan’s history as told through the eyes of Dr. Ishrat Husain who served as Governor of State Bank and also other notables drawn from Pakistan’s politics and industry and the institutions Dr. Ishrat Husain has contributed to. As a high-ranking civil servant Dr. Ishrat Husain is an eyewitness to such epochal episodes as the separation East Pakistan and while at the World Bank he saw firsthand the economic struggles of African nations and countries formerly in the Soviet Union. Later he led Pakistan’s economic recovery in the 2000s and for past two decades has been involved in reform of the country’s public and private institutions. A savant and celebrated economist, Dr. Ishrat Husain has left his mark on several institutions. Currently Dr. Ishrat Husain is the Minister for Institutional Reform and as Pakistan strives to improve its public institutions and reform its bureaucracy, his timely biography is a must read for policy makers, educationists, economists, corporate managers and anyone interested in learning about a lifetime of service.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9789698729561
Categories:
All Products, Biographies and Memoirs, New Trends, Non Fiction
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2021
Number of Pages: 472
Author:
SIBTAIN NAQVI
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Language: English
Weight: 0.62 g

About the Author

Sibtain Naqvi Is An Independent Researcher And Author And On Focuses Institutional And Cultural History. A Frequent Contributor To Pakistan's English Newspapers, Naqvi's Research Has Been Presented In Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia And Other International Universities And His Essays Have Been Published By Oxford University Press In Pakistan's Radioactive Decade. He Has Been Heavily Cited In Through The Eyes Of Tiger Cubs: Views Of Asia's Next Generation By Mark L. Clifford And Janet Pau And Co-Sponsored By Time Magazine, Asia Business Council And The Lee Kuan Yew School Of Public Policy At The National University Of Singapore. Besides Unravelling Gordian Knots, Sibtain Naqvi Has Also Authored Chronicling Excellence: A History Of IBA, Cobwebbed World Of Sadequain: A Retrospective, Ghalib: Call Of Angel, Sadequain: Drawings 1970, Surah-E-Rehman: Calligraphy And Rubaiyaat-E-Kuliyaat-Sadequain (The Complete Quatrains Of Sadequain).