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What is the economic agenda of the Islamic parties? Can it be distinguished sufficiently from the policies of the mainstream parties, to legitimate the claim, that the Islamic groups have an alternative national economic vision? Or is the Islamic economic agenda merely a partial modification of liberal nationalist and social democratic economic perspectives? The Institute of Policy Studies has produced a document which allows us td address these important questions. The Institute of Policy Studies is the premier Islamic policy think tank in Pakistan. But this annual economic review claims that the IPS Working group on the economy has produced "an independent and apolitical assessment of national economic conditions", (p.1),

Javed Akbar Ansari. (1996) BOOK REVIEWS – IPS Pakistan Working Group, Pakistan: The State of the Economy, Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Volume-12, Issue-1.
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