Is it possible to cover the 77 years of economic management of this country in a book of just 115 pages? It looks impossible but the author of The Management of the Pakistan Economy- 1947-2024, who has a number of books to his credit, has done it.
Dr Rashid Amjad, the author, is professor of economics at the Lahore School of Economics. He also spent 26 years with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as Director Employment Policy. He has rich and diversified knowledge on the subject. So, when he says poverty declined during the first two decades of (2000-2019) and more things like that, we have to rely on his deep knowledge.
However, Dr Amjad makes it clear in the very beginning that he has written this book on the management of Pakistan’s economy 40 years after he last delved into the subject. His previously co-authored book with the late Dr Viqar Ahmed, published in 1984, was also on the same topic, but it only covered the period from 1947 to 1982.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1/26/2025 10:46:00 AM,
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Institutional Reforms and Austerity Dr Ishrat Hussain has said that the economic and political disparities surfaced between home and host countries as a result of the pandemic. He emphasised that an important aspect which surfaced as a result of the pandemic was the economic and political disparities between home and host countries.
He was speaking as a Chief Guest at the launch of book “Covid-19 Crisis & Asian Migration” edited by Dr Nasra M Shahat at the Lahore School of Economics, Burki Campus. Dr Azam Amjad Chaudhry, HoD and Dean of Faculty of Economics, Lahore School of Economics opened the proceedings of the launch. Dr Ishrat elaborated that Japan and Europe were facing a decline in population growth which would materialise into shortage of labour. Pakistan that has a growing population and labour force, which can make up for the shortage in these economies but the ability to exploit that opportunity rests on being able to identify the relevant sectors and building the required skill sets. He raised important questions for future policy and research. Talking about Saudi Arabia, host to the largest Pakistani migrant workers, he drew attention towards the implications of liberalisation happening in the country on the outflows of migrants from Pakistan and the living conditions of all migrant workers in general. Especially since the liberalisation in the context of migration would mean a shift away from the current kaffala (sponsorship) system.
He also touched upon the issue of stigmatisation of migrant workers in the host countries and xenophobia. On the subject of remittances, he pointed out that while the macroeconomic linkages and importance has been well-established, there is a need to evaluate the consumption patterns of these remittances by households. He recognised the richness of coverage and diversity of the contents of the book and appreciated the effort of Dr Nasra Shah and the Lahore School of Economics in putting together this important volume on key issues. The editor of the book, Dr Nasra Shah, Coordinator CIMRAD and Professor at
Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), presented an overview of the book. She highlighted how South and Southeast Asia over the last few decades had become important origins of migrant workers especially to the oil-rich Arab Gulf region. Prior to COVID-19, in 2019, 22 million out of the 30 million international migrants in the Gulf were Asians, i.e., 72 percent. Most of these workers are employed in low-skilled temporary jobs or have an irregular migration status which made them more susceptible to unexpected shocks. The COVID-19 pandemic was one such shock that halted economic activity and affected not just the work and lives of the migrants, but also their families that relied on the remittances received to sustain their living back home. According to an estimate by Dr GM Arif and Shujaat Farooq in the book, around 1.7 million workers could return to Pakistan constituting around 2.5 percent of the domestic labour force.
The book contributes to enhance our understanding of migration dynamics and related issues that emerged in the wake of the pandemic. It contains opinions from leading experts and scholars on returnee management initiatives taken by home countries, host countries’ strategies to facilitate migrant workers and ways to improve governance of migration. It covers case studies of Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, and Sri Lanka to highlight the impacts of the pandemic.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12/10/2021 03:47:00 PM,
“The Three Regularities in Development: Growth, Jobs and Macro Policy in Developing Countries” (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) by Dr Moazam Mahmood was launched on 20 September 2019 at Lahore School of Economics. Dr Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Rector Lahore School of Economics was the chief guest at the ceremony that was attended by students and senior faculty.
The book examines why developing countries are at different levels of income and growth, setting apart Least Developed Countries from Lower and Middle Incomes Countries and Emerging Economies, and all three from Advanced Economies. It answers this central question of development by observing over 140 Developing Countries over the past third of a century. This large scale empirical exercise yields three regularities that have consistently held, in growth, in jobs, and in their macro drivers, explaining differentials between Developing Countries and Advanced Economies. The answers are surprisingly heterodox. The regularities vindicate the classical and Kaldorian emphasis on manufacturing and accumulation. The panacea of exports is observed to be second best. The labour market emerges as an instrumental Smithian policy lever, rather than a neoclassical derivative product, in a variant of Lewis. But equally neoclassical macroprudential policy is observed to aid accumulation and growth, while poverty has a Malthusian demographic drag.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9/24/2019 12:58:00 PM,
Book titled
Economic Growth and Development: A Comparative Discussion by
Dr. Matthew McCartney from Oxford University was launched by the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) of the Lahore School of Economics on March 24, 2015.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/03/2015 06:00:00 PM,
Language, Gender, and Power, The Politics of Representation and Hegemony in South Asia by
Shahid Siddiqui has been published.
The book focuses on the role of language as a powerful tool in representing and structuring the world. It explores how language can help construct stereotypes, identities, and human relationships. By constructing stereotypes language also manifests and perpetuates gender differences. The author examines how gender is in fact made up on a continuous basis in different linguistic and artistic expressions, e.g., sayings and proverbs, jokes, songs, films, TV plays, newspapers, theatre, and slogans behind vehicles, and reveals how these apparently playful activities strengthen gender stereotypes unnoticed. The book highlights the politics of representation and hegemony with regard to women with special reference to language. The readers are encouraged to realize that on the one hand language is a tool of control and hegemony while on the other hand it can be used to mount resistance against hegemony by reversing the discourse.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10/29/2013 03:24:00 PM,
By Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed
Ultimately the economic or material base of a society determines its politics and other societal forms and manifestations. Most certainly this adage is as true today as it was in the past, and nobody put it better than Bulleh Shah:
Panj rukan Islam de te cheyaan tukk/Cheyaan jai na hovey te panje jaande mukk.
(Islam comprises five pillars of faith, but the sixth is food/If the sixth is not available the five pillars crumble.)
Two of Pakistan’s senior most economists,
Rashid Amjad and Shahid Javed Burki, have in cooperation with a galaxy of respected experts — Parvez Hasan, Afia Malik, Hamna Ahmed, Naved Hamid, Mahreen Mahmud, Hafiz A Pasha, Aisha Ghaus-Pasha, Ehtisham Ahmad, Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Ishrat Husain, Khalil Hamdani, M Irfan, G M Arif, Muhammad Imran, Sara Hayat, Eric Manes, Azam Chaudhry, Theresa Chaudhry, Muhammad Haseeb, Uzma Afzal, Akmal Hussain and Khalid Ikram — taken up cudgels on behalf of the citizens of Pakistan for a programme of change and transformation. This if pursued with sincerity and discipline can help Pakistan achieve the necessary break with the sordid past of missed opportunities and spoilt chances of the last 66 years. No doubt Pakistan is in dire straits at present.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8/19/2013 09:57:00 AM,
Dr Ishrat Hussain, former Governor of the State Bank and Director IBA Karachi will launch the book edited by
Dr Rashid Amjad and Mr Shahid Javed Burki,
Pakistan: Moving the Economy Forward on Thursday May 30, 2013 at the Lahore School of Economics, Main Campus, Burki Road, lahore.
The central question which the book addresses is how to reverse the current prolonged period of low growth and high inflation in the country – stagflation - over the past five years, and to suggest and implement measures that would decisively move the economy onto a higher, more sustainable growth path.
The book includes contributions by eminent economists and national policymakers including former State Bank Governor Dr Ishrat Hussain, former Minister of Finance Dr Hafiz Pasha, former Vice-President World Bank Shahid Javed Burki, former Chief Economist World Bank Dr Pervez Hasan, former Vice-Chancellor PIDE Dr Rashid Amjad, and prominent economists including Dr Naved Hamid, Dr Ehtisham Ahmed, Dr Aisha Ghaus Pasha, Dr Azam Chaudhry and others from a multidimensional perspective.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5/29/2013 04:05:00 PM,
Dolls, Toys and More by S A J Shirazi was launched on April 28, 2012. Prof. Dr. Norbert Pintsch, Senior Expert DGFK, Germany presented a copy of the book to
Dr. Azam Chaudhry, the Dean, Lahore School of Economics. The book is a story of NGO working for poverty alleviation and preservation of cultural heritage in a village Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka in Punjab. Dr. Norbert also apprised Dr. Azam Chaudhry of what has been happening in the village Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka – commonly called
Dolls Village – over last two decades.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5/04/2012 03:00:00 PM,
A text book in two volumes published by Lahore School of Economics, 2012
This applied study in two volumes has been published for graduate level studies in banking, financial system and financial markets at academic institutions though it may also be helpful to professionals engaged in banking and financial markets in Pakistan. The primary objective of this text book is to enhance learning of what a financial system is, how it operates, and how these operations impact on the economy, and how this performance in Pakistan compares with performance in other countries. In parallel, how operations of financial system affects well being of various segments of society, though social dimensions of impact are not a part of analytical framework of financial system.
Volume I: Banking and Financial system
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/15/2011 09:11:00 AM,
Dr. Shahid Siddiqui’d book titled Rethinking Education in Pakistan published by Paramount Publishers Enterprise, Karachi.
Dr. Shahid Siddiqui is working in Lahore School as Professor and Director Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore School of Economics. The book covers perception, practices and possibility of the author in the field of education in the context of Pakistan.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1/08/2008 10:09:00 AM,
City Campus
104 - C, Gulberg III,
Lahore, Pakistan.
Phones: 92-42-35714936, 38474385
Fax: 92-42-36560905
Main Campus
Intersection Main Boulevard Phase VI
Burki Road
Lahore, Pakistan.
Phones: 37254099, 37254311
This applied study in two volumes has been published for graduate level studies in banking, financial system and financial markets at academic institutions though it may also be helpful to professionals engaged in banking and financial markets in Pakistan. The primary objective of this text book is to enhance learning of what a financial system is, how it operates, and how these operations impact on the economy, and how this performance in Pakistan compares with performance in other countries. In parallel, how operations of financial system affects well being of various segments of society, though social dimensions of impact are not a part of analytical framework of financial system.
Dr. Shahid Siddiqui’d book titled Rethinking Education in Pakistan published by Paramount Publishers Enterprise, Karachi. 