Structural adjustment programs drove Pakistan’s data-producing intelligentsia

Evidence

This shift also had much to do with the need for a state intelligentsia who could provide quantitative data that would fulfill the requirements of structural-adjustment programs and ensure the continuance of foreign loans to Pakistan. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 925

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how do foreign-loan conditions from the IMF/World Bank shape domestic intellectual and bureaucratic capacity in postcolonial states?