Books – Center of Research & Statistics

Welcome to the Shop Books page. Here you will find books written by the author and available for purchase. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of any title, please contact the author using the contact details provided on this website.

Revisiting the Rise and Fall of Industrial Productivity in Pakistan
Published in 2026	This book shows that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) increased only for a short stint from 1959-60 to 1965-66, and declined continuously thereafter, due to nationalization of basic industries, followed by the borrowing binge from the IMF by successive Pakistani Governments. The resulting increase in the cost of production led to decline in TFP growth, deindustrialization, accentuating the imbalance in income and wealth distribution and massive increase in poverty never witnessed in Pakistan before. These imbalances were accentuated due to high aggregate and market concentration causing massive decline in the wage share of income in Pakistan’s large scale manufacturing sector.

Revisiting the Rise and Fall of Industrial Productivity in Pakistan

Published in 2026

This book shows that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) increased only for a short stint from 1959-60 to 1965-66, and declined continuously thereafter, due to nationalization of basic industries, followed by the borrowing binge from the IMF by successive Pakistani Governments. The resulting increase in the cost of production led to decline in TFP growth, deindustrialization, accentuating the imbalance in income and wealth distribution and massive increase in poverty never witnessed in Pakistan before. These imbalances were accentuated due to high aggregate and market concentration causing massive decline in the wage share of income in Pakistan’s large scale manufacturing sector.

The Rise and Fall of Industrial Productivity in Pakistan
Published in 2002	This is a pioneering work on industrial economics in Pakistan, based on empirial research. The author has traced the changing patterns of industrial growth in Pakistan and analyzes the causes behind the change.

The Rise and Fall of Industrial Productivity in Pakistan

Published in 2002

This is a pioneering work on industrial economics in Pakistan, based on empirial research. The author has traced the changing patterns of industrial growth in Pakistan and analyzes the causes behind the change.

Alternative to the IMF
Published in 2022	Different articles in the book reveal that Pakistan’s policies are made abroad, governments are made abroad and strategic routes and natural resources are given free or at nominal rates. Nothing seems to have changed since 1947 when Pakistan gained ‘independence’. And after giving our resources and routes for free, we go to the IMF for budgetary support. Excessive borrowing from the IMF started in the late 1980s causing decline in the growth of output, investment and employment, creating imbalances in income distribution, increasing poverty, with very adverse impact on the social and political fabric of the country. The book brings to the fore how state power is being used to demolish the state to take us to the colonial world order that existed prior to 1945. “Alternative to the IMF” offers out of the box solutions to agriculture, industry, balance of payments, public finance, natural resources, political economy, education, governance, privatization and liberalization problems afflicting the state of Pakistan. The strategies formulated for Pakistan are applicable to other countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc. that are facing similar problems due to borrowings from the IMF. I have also looked at the problems of Jammu and Kashmir and Afghanistan that have affected our economy, politics and society very severely and offered solutions.

Alternative to the IMF

Published in 2022

Different articles in the book reveal that Pakistan’s policies are made abroad, governments are made abroad and strategic routes and natural resources are given free or at nominal rates. Nothing seems to have changed since 1947 when Pakistan gained ‘independence’. And after giving our resources and routes for free, we go to the IMF for budgetary support. Excessive borrowing from the IMF started in the late 1980s causing decline in the growth of output, investment and employment, creating imbalances in income distribution, increasing poverty, with very adverse impact on the social and political fabric of the country. The book brings to the fore how state power is being used to demolish the state to take us to the colonial world order that existed prior to 1945. “Alternative to the IMF” offers out of the box solutions to agriculture, industry, balance of payments, public finance, natural resources, political economy, education, governance, privatization and liberalization problems afflicting the state of Pakistan. The strategies formulated for Pakistan are applicable to other countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc. that are facing similar problems due to borrowings from the IMF. I have also looked at the problems of Jammu and Kashmir and Afghanistan that have affected our economy, politics and society very severely and offered solutions.

FIGHTING DEPENDENCE: Proclaimimg Sovereignity For An Enslaved Pakistan
Currently Unavailable

FIGHTING DEPENDENCE: Proclaimimg Sovereignity For An Enslaved Pakistan

Currently Unavailable

FIGHTING IMPERIALISM: Liberating Pakistan
Published in 2011	Fighting Imperialism: Liberating Pakistan shows how the formulation of economic policies by the World Bank and the IMF, foreign policy by the State Department, and military policies by the Pentagon, are making a mockery of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Execution of these policies by ‘selectees’ drawn from a network extending from the bureaucracy and the military, to politicians and technocrats, and to the media, have brought Pakistan to its present predicament. These ‘selectees’ are heading institutions which have now become dysfunctional, as they continue to be abused in the pursuit of American interests or for personal gains of the ‘selectees’ themselves. This book is recommended to those fighting dependence, oppression, exploitation, and imperialism.

FIGHTING IMPERIALISM: Liberating Pakistan

Published in 2011

Fighting Imperialism: Liberating Pakistan shows how the formulation of economic policies by the World Bank and the IMF, foreign policy by the State Department, and military policies by the Pentagon, are making a mockery of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Execution of these policies by ‘selectees’ drawn from a network extending from the bureaucracy and the military, to politicians and technocrats, and to the media, have brought Pakistan to its present predicament. These ‘selectees’ are heading institutions which have now become dysfunctional, as they continue to be abused in the pursuit of American interests or for personal gains of the ‘selectees’ themselves. This book is recommended to those fighting dependence, oppression, exploitation, and imperialism.