Exports stagnant despite rupee fall
November 16, 2025
For years, Pakistan has relied on traditional levers like currency depreciation and energy subsidies to stimulate exports. Yet despite multiple rounds of rupee devaluation, the country's export earnings have largely stagnated.
According to an empirical analysis by the Lahore School of Economics, it is not price adjustments but innovation, diversification, and access to high-income markets that truly drive export growth.
Labels: Dr. Azam Chaudhry, Exports, Pakistan, Pakistan Export, Research, Trade Policy, WTO, WTO Chairs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/16/2025 01:50:00 PM,
Use of Artificial Intelligence
On 15 November 2025, the Lahore School of Economics MBA program hosted a session on the Use of Artificial Intelligence by Mr. Badar Khushnood, Cofounder Bramerz & Fishry.com, former Country Consultant, Google, Facebook & Twitter, and Executive in Residence at LUMS, for the MBA participants of Lahore School. It was a hands-on session, and the students had brought their laptops to the classroom. The students learnt, amongst other things, how to use AI not only to gather information but also to present it.
Labels: AI, Alumni, Guest Speaker, Winter 2025
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/16/2025 09:29:00 AM,
Factors that Impact Pakistan's Exports: An Empirical Analysis
November 15, 2025
Dr. Azam Amjad Chaudhry, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Economics, Lahore School of Economics, WTO Chair for Pakistan
Dr. Gul Andaman, Teaching and Research Fellow, Innovation and Technology Center, Lahore School of Economics
Despite multiple currency depreciations, exports have barely grown. Research by Dr. Azam Amjad Chaudhry (Professor & Dean, Faculty of Economics, WTO Chair for Pakistan) and Dr. Gul Andaman (Teaching & Research Fellow, Innovation and Technology Center, Lahore School of Economics) shows that it’s not prices but diversification, innovation, and global demand that truly drive export growth. To move forward, Pakistan must build capabilities, add value, and expand into high-tech, complex products — not just rely on exchange rates.
Read Lahore School, Innovation and Technology Center, Policy Note No. 2/25 here
Labels: Dr. Azam Chaudhry, Exports, Pakistan, Pakistan Export, Research, Trade Policy, WTO, WTO Chairs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/15/2025 04:14:00 PM,
Management: Policy and Practices
On 13 Nov 2025, Mayfair Foods' Haleema Tariq shared her expertise with Lahore School of Economics MBA students. She discussed strategic management, marketing, highlighting business strategy levels & data-driven decisions, giving valuable insights to future leaders.
Labels: Guest Speaker, Winter 2025
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/15/2025 10:42:00 AM,
Poverty puzzle
November 14, 2025
The recent World Bank Pakistan Development Update, released at the end of October 2025, claims that poverty fell in 2024-25. This assertion raises troubling questions, especially since Pakistan’s poverty assessment report, published just a few months earlier by the World Bank, presented a very grim picture. It stated, “Pakistan’s once promising poverty reduction trajectory has come to a troubling halt, reversing years of hard-fought gains.” The report indicated a return to rising poverty, as their estimates after 2022/23 showed.
More importantly, the earlier World Bank poverty assessment stressed that the economic model responsible for reducing poverty from 64.3 per cent in 2001 to 21.9pc in 2018 “had reached its limits”. It noted that further declines in poverty would require much greater effort in the “face of deep-rooted inequalities, political instability, elite capture and vulnerability to climate risk”. The basic message of the assessment was that the resilience of the population, which had previously led to declining poverty, had been significantly weakened by natural disasters, climate change, and the economy’s diminishing capacity to create jobs with adequate income to lift workers out of poverty.
Read more »Labels: Faculty, Publications, World Bank
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/14/2025 08:04:00 AM,
Lahore School of Economics Seventh Annual Social Sciences Conference
November 13, 2025
The Lahore School of Economics held its 7th Social Sciences Conference, titled “Trends and Practices in the Social Sciences,” on November 13–14. Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Rector of the Lahore School of Economics, welcomed the speakers and participants from universities across the country. He emphasized the need for academia to contribute to policy prescriptions for pressing issues such as the climate crisis confronting Pakistan.
Day 1 featured an engaging focus on the role of language and literature in identity construction. Dr. Sonia Irum (International Islamic University) presented how contemporary critical fiction negotiates the notions of environment, power, and resistance in present-day contexts. Dr. Zakia Rashid Ehsan (Kinnaird College) discussed how literary texts are contextualized within localized cultural settings. Dr. Fauzia Janjua (International Islamic University), Dr. Tayyaba Tamim (LUMS), and Ms. Nida Saeed (Lahore School) shared their findings on class, language, education, and empowerment—particularly of marginalized communities. Dr. Nabiha Fatima Shahram, a sociologist at Lahore School, presented her research on the transgender community in Punjab and called for effective policymaking to equip them with the skills needed for a socially respected life. Dr. Afaf Manzoor (University of Education) examined the role of education in bridging inequalities.
Labels: Lahore School, Research, Social Sciences
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/13/2025 12:48:00 PM,
Conflict Resolution
The most important value, characteristic or even trait in a good conflict resolver is integrity, he said. Without integrity, one cannot respect even oneself. If you are seen as partial to one side, that would undermine the entire project. And it was part of integrity to ensure that you are familiar with the data you have at hand.Read more »
Labels: Guest Speaker, Winter 2025
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/13/2025 12:45:00 PM,
Distribution
November 08, 2025
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Labels: Guest Speaker, Winter 2025
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/08/2025 09:22:00 AM,
Banking
November 06, 2025
Asim Jilani from Faysal Bank shared expertise on risk management & Islamic banking with BS IV students at Lahore School of Economics. He covered key risk areas, the credit risk framework, and contrasted Islamic vs conventional banking.
Labels: Guest Speaker, Winter 2025
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/06/2025 01:13:00 PM,
How to Win Framework
November 05, 2025
On 4 November 2025, Salman Haroon, CCL Pharmaceuticals' CSIO, shared industry insights with BBA students at Lahore School of Economics. He discussed global pharma standards, the $1.65T industry, and emphasized clear brand positioning using the 'How to Win' framework.
Labels: Guest Speaker, Winter 2025
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/05/2025 12:55:00 PM,
Digital Marketing
Badar opened the session by showing the cohort a digital landscape of Pakistan, highlighting the access to the mobile phone by a very large percentage of the population, the implications for marketers of this development, and the need to differentiate between the macro trends and the variations and gaps that exist at the micro levels. For example, he specifically discussed limitations marketers faced when dealing with rural areas.Read more »
Labels: Alumni, Guest Speaker, Winter 2025
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11/05/2025 09:43:00 AM,
Lahore School of Economics and London School of Economics and Political Science signed a Memorandum of Understanding
October 16, 2025
Labels: Memorandum of Understanding
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10/16/2025 01:17:00 PM,
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