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    ISAS Insights

    Detailed perspectives on developments in South Asia​​

    291 : Technology, Development and the Role of the State

    Shahid Javed Burki, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

    9 September 2015

    South Asian countries like India and Pakistan had in the beginning placed the State at the "commanding heights of the economy". Later, the State was justifiably displaced from that high pedestal. However, there is a strong case now for the State to play a catalysing role in engineering a technology-driven path of economic growth.