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Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque, VC PIDE   Speaker:  Dr. Shandana Khan Mohmand, Book Author   About the Author: Her work in this area focuses on questions of representation, accountability, and responsiveness, and takes a political economy approach to the analysis of local government and service provision in the Western Balkans, South Asia, and Africa.    

Wednesday, January 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC, PIDE) Speaker: Prof. James A. Robinson   By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.        

Tuesday, January 12, 2020 at 7:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque, VC PIDE Speaker: Prof. Abhijit V. Banerjee   About Speaker: Professor Banerjee is the recipient of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded jointly with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a Research Associate of the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Professor Banerjee received the Infosys Prize 2009 in Social Sciences and Economics. In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers. His areas of research are development economics and economic theory. Banerjee is a member of J-PAL's Executive Committee

Monday, January 11, 2020 at 7:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC. PIDE) Speaker: Prof. Cass R. Sunstein About Speaker:  Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the Euro

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers Zarar Khuhro (Senior Journalist and Hots of Zara Hut Kay) Amer Zafar Durrani (President, Reenergia) Zaigham Khan (Executive Director, Civic Action Resources) Omar Quraishi (Journalist and CEO, Positive Media Communications) Usman Raza Jolaha (Founder/President, Volunteer Force Pakistan)   There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan. In the past, such initiatives have led to APCs that have mainly tried to strengthen political cartels. Reform for changing the way we do business of politics and policy is conveniently never in the agenda. We at PIDE are proposing a Grand National (intellectual) dialog on reform to parallel and possibly lead the possible GND with ideas. PIDE questions to our intellectuals will be: 1. Is democracy working as it should? 2. Can the system be improved through reform? What would you suggest! 3. Can the clash of institutions be avoided through reform? 4.Parliament virtually becomes irrelevant after elections! Atten

Monday, December 28, 2020 at 07:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers Mr. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob (President PILDAT) Dr. Adnan Rasool (Assistant Professor Political Science- University of Tennessee-Martin ) Ms. Jamila Aslam (Advocate Supreme Court) , Ms. Nasim Zehra (Journalist)   There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan. In the past, such initiatives have led to APCs that have mainly tried to strengthen political cartels. Reform for changing the way we do business of politics and policy is conveniently never in the agenda. We at PIDE are proposing a Grand National (intellectual) dialog on reform to parallel and possibly lead the possible GND with ideas. PIDE questions to our intellectuals will be: 1. Is democracy working as it should? 2. Can the system be improved through reform? What would you suggest! 3. Can the clash of institutions be avoided through reform? 4.Parliament virtually becomes irrelevant after elections! Attendance rates are low and legislative

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers  Mr. Asad Rahim (Adjunct Faculty - School of Law ) Mr. Raza Rumi (Policy Analyst) Ms. Arifa Noor (Journalist), Mr.Farooq Tirmizi (Author-Profit) Mr. Moeed Pirzada (Senior Journalist, Analyst) Mr. Farooq Tirmzi (Author - Profit)     Description: We at PIDE are proposing a Grand National (intellectual) dialog on reform to parallel and possibly lead the possible GND with ideas. There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan. In the past, such initiatives have led to APCs that have mainly tried to strengthen political cartels. Reform for changing the way we do business of politics and policy is conveniently never in the agenda. PIDE questions to our intellectuals will be: 1. Is democracy working as it should? 2. Can the system be improved through reform? What would you suggest! 3. Can the clash of institutions be avoided through reform? 4.Parliament virtually becomes irrelevant after elections! Attendance rates are low and legislative effo

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers  Ms. Najma Pirzada (Managing Editor-Global Village Space Publications ) Mr. Fahd Hussain (Journalist/Resident Editor Dawn ) Dr.Erum Haider (Assistant Professor Political Science and Environmental Studies College of Wooster OH) Ms. Huzaima Bukhari (Advocate High Court and Visiting Faculty at LUMS)   Description:  There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan. In the past, such initiatives have led to APCs that have mainly tried to strengthen political cartels. Reform for changing the way we do business of politics and policy is conveniently never in the agenda. We at PIDE are proposing a Grand National (intellectual) dialog on reform to parallel and possibly lead the possible GND with ideas. PIDE questions to our intellectuals will be: 1. Is democracy working as it should? 2. Can the system be improved through reform? What would you suggest! 3. Can the clash of institutions be avoided through reform? 4.Parliament virtually becomes irreleva

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers: Mosharraf Zaidi (Senior Fellow-Tabadlab) Osama Siddique (Associate Fellow at IDEAS and the Executive Director of Law & Policy Research Network (LPRN)) Amber Darr (Barrister, Advocate Supreme Court, Senior Research Fellow-UCL, Lecturer Coventry Law School) Usman Raza Jolaha, Founder/President, Volunteer Force Pakistan   There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan. In the past, such initiatives have led to APCs that have mainly tried to strengthen political cartels. Reform for changing the way we do business of politics and policy is conveniently never in the agenda. We at PIDE are proposing a Grand National (intellectual) dialog on reform to parallel and possibly lead the possible GND with ideas. PIDE questions to our intellectuals will be: 1. Is democracy working as it should? 2. Can the system be improved through reform? What would you suggest! 3. Can the clash of institutions be avoided through reform? 4.Parliament virtually becom

Key Note Speaker: Riaz Riazuddin Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque Knowledge Brief Presenters: Abdul Jalil and Hafsa Hina   Riaz Riazuddin is a former Deputy Governor of State Bank of Pakistan. He served as Acting Governor very briefly in 2017. He also worked as Chief Economic Adviser and Director of Research Department of SBP. He is the founding editor of the SBP Working Paper Series. He also co-authored the Financial Sector Assessment Reports of SBP. Earlier, he has served as an Assistant Professor/Research Economist at the Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi. He is currently a Member of the Audit Oversight Board, and a Senior Partner at Inculcate – a small IT venture that recently introduced Math Practice Worksheets for the iOS platform. The external sector plays a vital role in the long-run pattern of any country's macro economy-especially in developing countries. The absence of an external sector can put developing countries in the vicious circle of developing status. While the pres

About Author Dr. Khalid Malik, Founder and Co-chair (alongwith Prof. Jean Paul Fitoussi) of the Global Sustainability Forum based in Rome, Italy. He also serves as Special Advisor, International Development Law Organization. He is a former Director of the UNDP Human Development Report Office from June 2011 till 31 August 2014. He has held a variety of senior management and substantive positions in the United Nations. He served as UN Resident Coordinator in China (2003–2010), Director, UNDP Evaluation Office (1997-2003) and Chair, UN Evaluation Group. Earlier he was UN Representative in Uzbekistan. He has been active on UN reform and has worked closely with development partners and UN intergovernmental bodies. In 2009, Mr. Malik was one of ten “champions” - and the only foreigner - to be honored for their contributions to the protection of the environment in China. Mr. Malik has lectured widely on global issues and development economics in the US, UK, Pakistan and China. He was the Simon Professional Fellow at

Concept Note Import tariffs have long been used for protecting an economy's domestic industries from external competition. More recently, the emergence of global value chains as an integration platform into the global marketplace has stressed the importance of reducing import tariffs on parts and components that cross international borders several times, before they get assembled into a final good. A stream of literature has emerged on how reducing tariffs on intermediates and raw materials can allow firms to leverage technologies embedded in foreign products as an means of productivity growth. Yet, tariffs on final goods still matter. When countries choose to decrease import tariffs on raw materials and intermediates but keep high tariffs on final goods (a tariff structure known as ‘cascading’), then firms’ profit margins increase, as their costs of production fall, but the price at which they sell their output remains higher than in international markets by virtue of the tariff on the final good. Th

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of political institutions, the military establishment and political parties in Pakistan. It provides a nuanced understanding of the practices of disenfranchisement by theocratic governments in the country which has relegated the people to the margins of their society. The volume provides an in-depth account of the political history of Pakistan focusing not only on national politics and foreign policy but also on their congruence with sub-national systems of governance, the criminal justice system, bureaucracy, the electoral system and the police. It discusses challenging issues plaguing the country such as the continued dominance of the military, lagging economic development, lack of accountability within political institutions, sectarianism and terrorism. The author dissects and critically examines Pakistan’s hegemonic politics and underlines the need for a new social contract based on the principles of inclusiveness and equality. The volume offers fre

ife on streets is not easy. Ask any street vendor on the roads, markets, parks and other public spaces in Islamabad. Given option of a regular job, majority of street vendors will quit their vocation. Unfortunately, these job offerings are not expected to arrive soon. And even, miraculously jobs are created for many, then more from poorer segments will be entering in the public space to fill the vending spots vacated by others. It is an avalanche of humanity that is seeping in through any space for making their livelihood. They work through the system by bribing, cajoling or guiling in their existential struggle. It is easy to bemoan the congestion, unhygienic and slyness, often attributed to the vendors on the streets, but difficult to wish them away in the fifth most populous low-income country.   PIDE has been raising the voice for the inclusion of the poor. And street vendors remain a potent manifestation of these excluded segments. PIDE has rolled up its sleeves by teaming up with Ehsaas, the premier po

Sania Nishtar; Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation Shahid Mahmood; Member, Planning, Capital Development Authority (CDA) Shafaq Hashmi; Chief Officer, Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) Zia Banday; Senior Fellow, PIDE (Presentation on the findings of Street Vendors’ Survey in Islamabad) Exposure on Ground; Fazal Hayat, Coordinator of Street Vendors’ Survey Team Voice of the Unheard; Bedar Bakht & Muhammad Sajid, Street Vendors from Karachi Company, Islamabad Panelist Dr. Durr-e-Nayab Dr. Zeba Sathar Dr. G.M.Arif Dr. Attiya InayatUllah Moderator: Dr. Nadeem-ul-Haque, Vice Chancellor, PIDE

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