Development Challenges in The New Decade - April 23, 2010
April 23, 2010
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Development Challenges in The New Decade - April 22, 2010
April 22, 2010
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At the Lahore School
April 16, 2010
At Lahore School - April 2010’ appeared in print today. Get your own copy.
Labels: Campus Life, Lahore School, Publications
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/16/2010 02:49:00 PM,
Development Challenges in The New Decade
April 14, 2010
Sixth Annual Conference
on Management of the Pakistan Economy
on Management of the Pakistan Economy
DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IN THE NEW DECADE
Center for Research in Economics and Business
Lahore School of Economics
Lahore School of Economics
April 22-23, 2010
The Lahore School of Economics is having its Sixth Annual Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy on the 22nd – 23rd of April, 2010 at the Lahore School main campus (on Burki Road). The theme of this year's Conference is "Development Challenges in the New Decade".
The underlying objective of the conference is to promote dialogue/discussion on key economic management and policy issues facing the country today. The inaugural speech will be made by a leading economist of Pakistan. The inaugural session will lay the foundation for the rest of the conference and it will be followed by four sessions concerning the major obstacles to sustained and inclusive growth. The topics and broad areas that will be covered in the different sessions are as follows:
The excessive centralization of resources in Pakistan has its roots in history and the institutional set-up
of the country. The imbalance of power between the center and the provinces has long been a point of
contention between Punjab and the other provinces. The perception of Punjab as an overpowering province
underlies the grievances of the smaller provinces. Furthermore, provincial disparities in the economic and social
indicators are huge and add to the trust deficit. The lack of trust amongst the provinces is at the root of the
failure to adopt policies of national importance such as optimal use of water and other natural resources, or
achieving consensus on issues as fundamental as revenue sharing and distribution. Papers in this session can
focus on any of the issues raised above, including the allocation of resources through NFC to reduce regional
disparities.
Session 3 – Addressing the Energy Crisis
Pakistan is currently facing the worst energy crisis in its history. The impact of this crisis has been
multi-dimensional affecting everyone from households to industries to trade. Given the severe consequences of
the energy crisis and that Pakistan experienced a similar crisis in the 1990s, it is important to understand the
factors underlying these periodic crises. The analysis should aim to show how the problem can be addressed and
what is the way forward for the economy? The discussion should address both demand and supply side issues as
well as the energy sector’s governance and management problems.
Currently, Pakistan’s tax-to-GDP ratio is amongst the lowest in the world. This is a chronic problem and
repeated reforms to improve the situation have been tried without success. The consequence of the failure to
improve tax revenue mobilization is shortages in infrastructure, inadequate investment in social sectors, inability
to transfer resources to poor provinces, periodic fiscal and balance of payments crises and a persistent, excessive
reliance on foreign assistance. These costs are large and dealing with this problem is almost a precondition for
solving many of the other problems Pakistan is faced with today. Papers in this session should aim to discuss
reasons for the failure of the past reform efforts and strategize ways of breaking out of this low level tax
mobilization trap.
Session 5 – Managing the Scarce Water Resources
Pakistan is one of the most water-stressed countries in the world and dependence on a single river
system makes availability of water highly vulnerable. From a long term perspective Pakistan’s water resources
are faced with three major challenges. These include: 1) Building a knowledge-based capacity to nurture
Pakistan’s scarce water resource. 2) Maintaining, rehabilitating and expanding infrastructure for managing
Pakistan’s water resource. 3) Creating a modern institutional framework that employs international best
practices of water management which ensures sustainability and enhances efficiency of water use. Papers in this
session may address any of the aforementioned challenges as well as suggest a future direction for managing
Pakistan’s water economy.
Session 6 – Round Table Discussion: Development Challenges – Alternative Perspectives
The round table will bring together leading economists and policy makers to discuss what they think are
the most important challenges facing Pakistan, including those that might not have been covered in the previous
sessions. It is anticipated that this discussion will provide further insights on the development issues and policies
needed to help Pakistan make the transition to a middle income country.
Related: Lahore School Fifth Annual Conference on Management of the Pakistan Economy: Growth, Trade and Development
Labels: Annual Conference, CREB, Management of Pakistan Economy, Pakistan Economy
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/14/2010 12:26:00 PM,
Lahore School of Economics Map
April 12, 2010
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/12/2010 12:53:00 PM,
The South Asian Economics Students Meet Dhaka, Bangladesh
April 09, 2010
The South Asian Economics Students Meet (SAESM) is a discussion forum for South Asian undergraduate students to interact and introduce fresh international perspectives on economic development, motivating contemporaries to think beyond textbooks. In particular, this conference is an attempt to discuss the impact of economic development on different aspects of South Asian economy-agriculture, industry, trade, infrastructure, poverty and entrepreneurship from the perspective of a learning economics student.
At SAESM 2009 five countries namely Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka participated with each country having a delegation of ten participants. Team Pakistan consisted of two students from the Lahore School of Economics and eight students from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Tawha Ahmed (BSC IV sec A) participated in the theme paper submission category and presented a paper on the topic of SME Development while Asha Gul (BSC IV sec A) contested the Budding Economist category.
Related: Lahore School at South Asian Economics Students’ Meet
Labels: Debates, Extra Curricular, SAESM
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/09/2010 01:28:00 PM,
Lahore School Sports Feista, 2010
April 08, 2010
The Sports Society held their 1st field sports event “the Lahore School Sports Fiesta” on 2nd Feb,2010 at the football field . The event witnessed field sports for both males and females like 50m, 100m, 200m races, sack race, Tug of War, football free style and High Hell race for girls. Tug of War was the main attraction for the audiences and participants. Ayehs Akram won the high heel race, 50 meters race was only for girls in which Batool, Ayesha Nkram and Natalia Naveed were top three participants, 1st position 100 meters (males) top three contestants were Hussain Ali, Raza Sheikh and Mohid Sharif.
Labels: Extra Curricular, Sports
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/08/2010 01:23:00 PM,
Lahore School Annual Conference on Management of Pakistan Economy: Development Challenges in the New Decade
April 07, 2010
Lahore School Annual Conference on Management of Pakistan Economy will be held on April April 22-23, 2010. Theme of the this year's conference is "Development Challenges in the New Decade."
Labels: Annual Conference, CREB, Management of Pakistan Economy, Pakistan Economy
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/07/2010 07:29:00 AM,
Pakistan 1951-2001: The Forgotten Asian Economic Success
April 05, 2010
Seminar Pakistan 1951-2001: The Forgotten Asian Economic Success in progress now.
Labels: CREB, Dr Mathew McCartney, Pakistan Economy, Seminar
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/05/2010 01:13:00 PM,
Seminar on Pakistan 1951-2001: The Forgotten Asian Economic Success
April 04, 2010
Lahore School of Economics Center for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) is organizing a seminar by Dr. Mathew McCartney on Monday April 5, 2010 at Mahmood Chaudhry Library.
The topic of the seminar is: Pakistan 1951-2001: The Forgotten Asian Economic Success. There is an almost uniformly negative perception of Pakistan’s economy in current media and academia, this view is sharpened by the very positive reporting of India – the new Asian Giant/ Miracle. It is firstly interesting to remember how such images have changed dramatically over time. In the 1960s for example Pakistan was widely seen as a ‘miracle’ economy with a modernizing and pro-western leader and India as a country becoming increasingly impossible to govern and facing a future of likely mass famine.
Making a judgment about whether a country/ economy has been a ‘success’ or ‘failure’ is too often based on media perception and heavily weighed by recent economic events. There are more rigorous means of making such a judgment about Pakistan since 1947. Those included in this seminar are a comparison with Pakistan’s own history before 1947, a comparison with similar developing countries after 1947 and a comparison of Pakistan’s development after 1947 with the initial conditions and constraints prevailing at independence. Using these more substantial and rigorous measures it can be possible under certain circumstances to say that Pakistan is indeed ‘the forgotten economic success of Asia’ of the last sixty years.
Dr Mathew McCartney is visiting CREB for two weeks. He is currently a lecturer in Economics and admissions tutor in the department of Economics, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). He has an MPhil from Oxford and a PhD from SOAS. He has also taught at Korea University in Seoul and JNU, New Delhi. His recent publications include ‘India-The Political Economy of Growth Stagnation and the State, 1951-2007’, London, Routledge (2009), ‘Political Economy, Growth and Liberalization, in India 1991-2008’, London, Routledge (2009). His research interests are “role of the state in late development, industry and industrialization, economic growth, comparative political economy of South Asia, India and Pakistan since independence.”
Labels: CREB, Dr Mathew McCartney, Pakistan Economy, Seminar
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/04/2010 07:42:00 AM,
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