Tenth Annual Conference on Management of the Pakistan Economy
March 24, 2014
Pakistan in the Global Economy – Opportunities and Challenges
26-27 March, 2014
Day 1: Wednesday, 26 March 2014
9:15 – 9:30 Opening Remarks: Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Rector, Lahore School of Economics
9:30 – 10:00 Keynote Address: Growth Spurts and Reversals: A Historical Perspective - Rashid Amjad
10:00 – 11:15 Session 1 – Macroeconomic management under constrained balance of payments and an open capital account
Monetary Policy, Inflation and Economic Growth - Mohsin Khan
Understanding Pakistan’s Parallel FX Market - Mushtaq Khan and Asma Khalid
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2 – The Exchange Rate as a Policy Instrument
Foreign Liquidity Crisis and the Economy – Pakistan A Long Term Comparative View - Shakil Faruqi
Being “Afraid of Float” to “Benign Neglect”, A Jolting Ride of SBP on the Roller Coaster of Exchange Rate Regime - Syed Kumail Rizvi, Nawazish Mirza and Bushra Naqvi
What does the exchange rate do? A status symbol - Sikander Rahim
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3 – Pakistan and the World Trading order
Changing Landscape of RTAs and PTAs: Analysis and Implications - Rashid Kaukab
Regional trade: How it might support Pakistan’s economic growth - Manzoor Ahmad
WTO New Trade Facilitation Agreement: Implications for domestic trade policy formulation of Pakistan - Ahmad Irfan Aslam and Mohammad Saeed
15:45 – 17:15 Session 4 – Imports: are they the villain in the piece?
Pakistan’s Imports Dependency and Regional Integration - Nasir Iqbal, Ejaz Ghani, Musleh-Ud-Din
Reviewing the Import Demand Function of Pakistan - Resham Naveed and Zunia Tirmazee
Day 2: Thursday, 27 March, 2014
09:00 – 10:45 Session 1 –Pakistan’s Competitiveness
Towards a Competitive Pakistan: The Role of Industrial Policy - Irfan ul Haque
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy: A Comparative Study of the Textile Industry in Pakistan - Matthew McCartney
Barriers to Growth of Small Firms in Pakistan: A Qualitative Assessment of Selected Light Engineering Industries - Nazish Afraz, Syed M. Turab Hussain and Usman Khan
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2 – Pakistan’s Export Performance
Exporters in Pakistan and Firms Who Do Not: What’s the Big Difference - Theresa Thompson Chaudhry and Haseeb Ashraf
Analysis of Export Expansion and Diversification in East and South Asia - Azam Chaudhry and Gul Andaman
13:30 – 15:00 Session 3 – Building up Pakistan’s technological capabilities
Foreign Direct Investment and Technological Capabilities: Relevance of the East Asian experience for Pakistan - Khalil Hamdani
Pakistan Auto Industry - Nabeel Hashmi
Global Quality Standards and their Compliance and Gaps within Pakistan's Export Sector - Salman Ehsan and Azam Chaudhry
15:15 – 16:30 Session 4 – Diversification – Markets and Exports
Pakistani Textiles: A Case for Moving up the Value Chain - Naved Hamid, Ijaz Nabi and Rafia Zafar
Patterns of Export Diversification - Evidence from Pakistan - Hamna Ahmed and Naved Hamid
Analysing Pakistan's Trade Opportunity with Turkey - Asha Gul
16:30 – 17:30 Conference Closing: Policy and operational implications of the conference discussions
Discussants: Irfan ul Haque, Rashid Amjad and Matthew McCartney
Labels: CREB, Management of Pakistan Economy, Pakistan, Pakistan Economy
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3/24/2014 01:12:00 PM,
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