Over the last decade, the phenomenon of overseas migration from Pakistan to the countries of the Middle East and North Africal has had a far reaching impact on the domestic economy. Indeed, no factor has more dramatically affected the domestic employment situation and the balance~f-payments...

The purpose of this paper is to test how far investment by individual firms was related to profits and to sales in Pakistan in the sixties, and to explore in particular how the relationship differed between the first and second halves of the decade. These periods correspond roughly to the Second...

It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 26th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the PSDE. I would like to thank you Deputy Chairman and Past President of the PSDE for your time to inaugurate the meeting. I would like to thank our members and many guests who have come from all over...

Mr Prime Minister, Patron of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists and Chancellor PIDE, Minister for Planning and Development, Ministers, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 24th Annual...

Finance Minister, Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Dr Nadeem VI Haque, Patron of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists and Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my pleasure to welcome you all to...

It is indeed a privilege for me to join Dr Naved Hamid in paying tribute to Dr Parvez Hasan, an outstanding economist recognised for his work on development economics, on the economy of Pakistan, and the East Asian economies. The Pakistan Society of Development Economists honours him today for...

Syed Naveed Qamar, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Professor Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Former President, PSDE, Dr Sarfraz Khan Qureshi, Former President, PSDE, Dr G. M. Arif, Secretary, PSDE, Past Presidents and...

The paper argues that if Pakistan is to survive and prosper under the competitive conditions of the new global economy, then it must move away from its overwhelming dependence on “cottonomics” into more technology- and knowledge-based productswhere global growth is concentrated. For this to...

Understanding Pakistan’s economic performance has never been easy. Its capacity to generate impressive rates of economic growth in the 1960s and 1980s with low levels of savings, investment and very poor human development indicators confounded its critics. Indeed during the overall period...

The paper provides a consistent time-series of poverty estimates for the period 1963- 64 to 1992-93 for both the rural as well as the urban areas, examines the influence of macroeconomic policies on the poverty levels, analyses the impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes on the levels of...