Cory Smith received his PhD from MIT in 2020. He will join Dartmouth’s Political Economy Project as a postdoc and subsequently the University of Maryland AREC Department as faculty. His research interests are in long-run development and political economy.
Pakistan continues to struggle with persistent regional, local, ethnic and gender inequalities in economic development. These inequalities date back to Colonial Rule, which ended more than seventy years ago. In addition, the country’s political system has perpetuated political inequality...