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Pakistan Society of Development Economists
Programme
of
The 22nd
Annual General Meeting and Conference
19th -22
nd December 2006
Theme: Governance and Institutions
Host: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics,
Islamabad
Co-hosts: CIDA, National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), DFID,
UNFPA, Askari Bank Ltd., MCB Bank, ICI Pakistan
Limited, Arif Habib Investment Company.
Venue: The Pearl-Continental, Lahore.
Contact for conference updates: www.pide.org.pk
Pakistan Society of Development Economists
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Programme at a Glance
Pakistan Society of Development Economists
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Day First, December 19, 2006
Inaugural Session
Venue: Crystal AB
1. Recitation from the Holy Quran
2. Welcome Remarks and Secretary’s Report.
Rehana Siddiqui, Secretary, PSDE
3. Presidential Address:
Economics and Governance Nadeem Ul Haque
President
Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Islamabad.
4. Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest.
11:30 a.m. – 12.00 noon Refreshments
Thematic Session
Political Economy of Donor’s
Support
Venue: Emerald AB
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Chairperson: M. Akram Sheikh
Deputy Chairman
Planning Commission
Pak. Secretariat
Islamabad
Presenters:
The Political Economy of I FI’s Lending
to Pakistan.
Mumtaz Anwar
Hamburg Institute of International
Economics (HWWA) Hamburg, Germany.
Donor Support to Citizen Community
Boards in Pakistan.
Syed Mohammad Ali
International Policy Fellow
Open Society Institute
Impact of Governance Conditionality of
IFI’s on Development of Domestic
Institutions. Muhammad Azizali
IMF, Washington, D. C., USA.
Thematic Session
Effectiveness of Devolution
Programme in Pakistan
Venue: Shalimar A
12:00 noon – 01:30 p.m.
Chairperson:
Danyal Aziz
Chairman
NRB, Islamabad
Presenters: National Reconstruction Bureau
Post Devolution Enforcement of Local
and Special Laws.
Do Donor Programme Support
Devolution.
Accountability undr Local
Government System.
Citizen Community Boards.
Analysis of Provincial Finance
Commission Award.
Community and Economic
Development in Pakistan: The Case of
Citizen Community Boards in
Hafizabad and Japanese Perspectives.
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Thematic Session
Demographic Change and
Governance Issues
Venue: Zavier
12:00 noon - 01:30 p.m
Chairperson: Donya Aziz
Parliamentary Secretary
Population Welfare
Division
Government of Pakistan
Islamabad.
Presentations:
Implications of Youth Bulge on
Governance.
Mehtab S. Karim
Head, Reproductive Health Division,
Community Health Sciences, The Agha Khan
University, Karachi.
The Rapid Growth of Ageing Population
and its Implications for Governance and
Social Security.
Mohammad Nizam-ud-Din
Vice Chancellor
Gujrat University
Punjab.
Demography, Security and Governance:
Competiting Visions for Pakistan.
Saeed Shafqat
Executive Director
National Institute of Population Studies
Islamabad.
Challenges for Fertility Transition in
Pakistan.
Ghulam Y. Soomro
Senior Research Demographer
PIDE, Islamabad.
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. LUNCH
Thematic Session
Fiscal Accountability
Venue: Crystal AB
02:15 p.m. - 03:45 p.m.
Chairperson: Tony Venables
Professor of International Economics
London School of Economics and
Political Science, UK
Public Expenditure Management, Public
Financial Management and Accountability.
Ismail Cessay
Senior Financial Management Specialist
The World Bank, Islamabad. &
David Johnson
DFID, Islamabad.
Fiscal Transparency and Economic Outcomes.
Farhan Hameed
IMF, Washington D.C., USA.
Governance and Economic Growth.
Tony Venables.
03:45 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. TEA
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Day First, December 19, 2006
Thematic Session
Security for the 21st Century Sustainable
Growth.
2:15 p.m. – 03:45 p.m.
Venue: Shalimar A
Chairperson: Mahmood Ali Khan
Chaudhry
Abu-Bakar Block
New Garden Town
Lahore.
Presentations:
Law and Order, Economic Development
and Community Based Policing, in Context
of Pakistan.
Azhar Hassan Nadeem
Additional Inspector General of Police,
Punjab.
The Evolution of the Police from Force to a
Service Model.
Tariq Khosa
DIG/FIA, Islamabad
Ali Murtaza
03:45 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. TEA
Thematic Session
Governance and Regulation of
Agriculture.
2:15 noon – 03:45 p.m.
Venue: Emerald AB
Chairperson: Ismail Qureshi
Secretary Agriculture
Islamabad.
Presentations:
Governance of Agriculture Support
Sciences.
Zafar Altaf
Ex-Chairman
Pakistan Agriculture Research Council
Islamabad.
Impact of Global Cotton and Wheat Prices
on Rural Poverty in Pakistan.
David Orden, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI,
USA, Abdul Salam, Reno Dewina, Hina
Nazli and Nicholas Minot.
Issues in Agriculture Management.
Sohail J. Malik.
03:45 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. TEA
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First Technical Session December 19, 2006 at 04:15 p.m. - 06:15 p.m.
Public/Private Choice Markets and Regulations-I
Chairperson: Najam Sethi
Lahore.
Chairperson: Arif Habib
Chairman and Chief Executive
Arif Habib Group
Karachi.
Venue: Crystal AB Venue: Emerald AB
1. Role of Household Income and Public
Provision of Basic Needs in Pakistan – A
Cross District Analysis.
Rizwana Siddiqui, Research Economist, PIDE,
Islamabad.
1. What Determines the Domestic Prices of
Agricultural Commodities in Pakistan?
Henri Lorie, Senior Resident Representative,
IMF in Pakistan, and Kiran Younas Khan,
Economist,
IMF Representative Office, Islamabad.
2. Is Good Governance an approach to Civil
Service Reforms?
Muhammad Iqbal, General Manager, Human
Resources, Civil Aviation Authority, Karachi.
2. Retailer Compliance as a Predictor of
Youth Smoking Participation and
Consumption.
Alan Diener, Sr. Survey Methodologist,
Rashid Ahmed, Sr. Data Analyst, University of
Waterloo, Judy Snider, Manager of Surveillance,
Murray J. Kaiserman, Director of Surveillance,
Surveillance and Evaluation, Tobacco Control
Programme, CANADA.
3. Public-Private Wage Differentials,
Preference for Public Sector Jobs and
Unemployment Duration in Pakistan.
Asma Hyder, Ph. D scholar, NUST Institute of
Management Sciences, Rawalpindi & Research
Fellow, PIDE, Islamabad.
3. Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing
in Pakistan: A Production Frontier Approach.
Tariq Mehmood, Ejaz Ghani, and Muslehuddin,
PIDE, Islamabad.
4. Whose Public Action? Collaboration
between State and Non-State Providers of
Basic Services in Pakistan.
Karin Astrid Siegmann, Junior Research Fellow,
Nazima Shaheen, Consultant/Research Assistant,
Saleem Shah, Research Associate SDPI,
Islamabad.
4. Did they do it differently? Capital
Structure Choice of Public Private Sector
Firms in Pakistan.
Muhammad Azeem Qureshi, Assistant Professor
in Finance, Institute of Management Sciences,
and Toseef Azid, Professor, Department of
Economics
Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.
5. The Impact of Public Investment on Private
Investment: A Disaggregated Analysis
Noman Saeed, AERC, Karachi, Kalim Hyder,
LSE, Lahore, Asghar Ali, AERC, Karachi.
DISCUSSANT: Eatzaz Ahmed
Chairman Department of Economics
QAU, Islamabad
DISCUSSANT: Abid Aman Burki
LUMS, Lahore.
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First Technical Session December 19, 2006 at 04:15 p.m. - 06:15 p.m.
Governance, Poverty and Inequality
Governance and Growth
Chairperson: Akmal Hussain
Managing Director
Sayyed Engineering Private
Limited, Lahore.
Chairperson: Arif Nizami
Nawa-i-Waqt
Venue: Shalimar C Venue: Zavier
1. Corruption and Income Inequality: A
Panel Data Analysis.
M. Aman Ullah, student, Eatzaz Ahmed,
Chairman, Department of Economics,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
1. Sectoral Volatility, Development and
Governance: A Study of Pakistan.
Toseef Azid, Fulbright Fellow, Social and
Behavioural Sciences Division, El Camino
Community College, Torrance CA, USA.
2. Governance and Income Inequality.
Saima Shafique, Lecturer
NUML & Ph. D Scholar (Economics), Quaid-i-
Azam University, Islamabad, and Rashida Haq,
Research Economist, PIDE, Islamabad.
2. Urban Poverty and Governance: The Case
of Multan City.
Imran Sharif Chaudhry, Assistant Professor,
Shahnawaz Malik, Chairman & Professor,
Department of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya
University Multan, and Asma Imran, Lecturer in
Economics, Multan Postgraduate College, Multan.
3. Governance and Pro-Poor Growth –
Evidence from Pakistan.
Rashida Haq, Research Economist and Uzma
Zia, Staff Economist, PIDE, Islamabad.
3. The Evaluation of Efficiencies of
Governments of Pakistan.
Farooq Rasheed, Assistant Professor, Karachi
Institute of Economics and Technology, Karachi.
4. Measurement of Absolute Poverty and
Governance in Pakistan (1988-99 and 2004-
05).
Talat Anwar, Senior Economist, UNDP Project
Centre for Research on Poverty Reduction and
Income Distribution, Planning Commission,
Islamabad.
4. Myths and Realities of Long Run
Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants.
Lubna Hasan, Research Economist, PIDE,
Islamabad.
DISCUSSANT: G. M. Arif
Poverty Specialist
ADB, Islamabad.
DISCUSSANT: Faisal Bari
Associate Professor
LUMS, Lahore.
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Second Technical Session December 20, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Decentralisation and Devolution-I Governance and Institutions-I Chairperson: Arvind Virmani
Chairperson: Ahsan Iqbal
Formerly Deputy Chairman
Planning Commission
Islamabad.
Venue: Crystal B Venue: Shalimar A
1. Whether Decentralisation in Pakistan is
Purposeful? A Survey under Public Sector
Framework.
Syed Adnan Haider Ali Shah Bukhari, Lecturer
in Economics, National University of Computer
& Emerging Sciences-FAST, Karachi.,
Muhammad Sabihuddin, Dean and Qazi Masood
Ahmad, Jr. Fellow, College of Management
Sciences, PAF-Karachi Institute of Economics
Technology, Karachi.
1. Which Institutions are more relevant than
others in Inequality Mitigation?
Dawood Mamoon, Institute of Social Studies
(ISS)
The Hague, The Netherlands.
2. Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic
Growth in Pakistan.
Shahnawaz Malik, Chairman and Professor,
Mahmood-ul-Hassan and Shahzad Hussain, Ph.
D scholars, Department of Economics,
Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.
2. Economics of Regaining Office: The Case
of Pakistan.
Muhammad Shahid Akram, Ph. D Student,
Department of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya
University, Multan and Toseef Azid, Fulbright
Fellow, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Division,
El Camino Community College, Torrance CA,
USA.
3. Convergence Model of Governance: A
Case Study of Local Government System of
Pakistan.
Syed Akhtar Hussain Shah, Ph. D. Scholar,
PIDE, Islamabad and Mahmood Khalid and Tariq
Shah, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Department, Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad..
3. Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in
Pakistan.
Shabbar Jaffry, Reader in Economics and
Director of Postgraduate Programme in
Economics, Yaseen Ghulam, Sr. Lecturer,
Vyoma, Shah, Ph.D student, and Joe Cox,
Lecturer Department of Economics, Portsmouth
Business School, University of Portsmouth, UK.
4. Province-Wise Growth Patterns in Human
Capital Accumulation.
Muhammad Sabir, National Expert (GRBI)
& Senior Economist, SPDC, Karachi, and Zehra
Aftab, Research Fellow, PIDE, Islamabad.
4. Corporate Governance and Firm
Performance: Evidence from Karachi Stock
Exchange.
Attiya Y. Javed, Research Economist, PIDE,
Islamabad, Robina Iqbal, M.Phil student,
Department of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad.
DISCUSSANT: Tony Venables
DISCUSSANT: Lubna Hasan.
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA
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Second Technical Session December 20, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Financial Deregulation-I
Agriculture, Environment and Governance
Chairperson: Tariq Hameed
Chairman WAPDA
Chairperson: Zafar Altaf
Formerly Chairman PARC,
Islamabad.
Venue: Shalimar C Venue: Zavier
1. Stock Market Volatility and Weak Form
Efficiency: Evidence from an Emerging Market.
Abid Hameed, Economist, Monetary Policy Department,
State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, and
Hammad Ashraf, Assistant Professor, Bahria Univeristy,
Islamabad.
1. Competitiveness and Policy Analysis of Potato
Production under different Agro-Ecological Zones
of Northern Areas: Implications for Food Security
and Poverty Alleviaiton.
Noor Pir Khan, Professor of Agricultural Economics,
NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar, and Javed
Akhtar, Agricultural Officer, Department of
Agriculture, Northern Areas of Pakistan.
2. Financial Development and Income Inequality in
Pakistan: An Application of ARDL Approach.
Muhammad Shahbaz Akmal, Economist, Applied
Economics Research Centre, Qazi Masood Ahmad,
Associate Professor, Institute of Business Administration
and Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt, Sr. Research
Economist, Applied Economics Research Centre,
University of Karachi, Karachi.
2. Relationship between Income Distribution and
the Cost of Environment and the Cost of
Environmental Management in Australia.
Seeme Mallick, Deputy Director, New Murree
Development Authority, Murree, Naghmana Ghani,
Research Economist, and Shahnaz Hameed, Research
Economist, PIDE, Islamabad.
3. Impact of Political Events on Financial Market
Volatility: Evidence from Pakistan.
Ahmed M. Khalid and Gulasekaran Rajaguru, Bond
University, Gold Coast, Australia.
3. Policy Implications of Problem of Banning
Two-Stroke Auto-Rickshaws in Lahore.
M. Rafiq Khan, Senior Research Fellow, Lahore
School of Economics, Lahore.
.
4. Banking: Interest Spread, inelastic deposit Supply
and Mergers.
M. Idrees Khawaja, Research Associate, and
Muslehuddin, Chief of Research, and PIDE, Islamabad.
4. Is Trade Good for Environment: A Link Root
Cointegration Analysis.
Samina Khalid, Senior Research Economist, and
Zeeshan Inam., Ph. D Scholar, Applied Economics
Research Centre, University of Karachi, Karachi.
DISCUSSANT: Rizwana Siddiqui
PIDE, Islamabad.
DISCUSSANT: Chaudhry Shujat Ali
Chief Economist, Planning and,
Development Board, Punjab, Lahore.
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Day Second, December 20, 2006
The Mahbub Ul Haq Lecture
Underdevelopment
11:30 a.m. - 01:00
p.m.
Venue: Crystal B
Chairperson:
Chief Minister
Punjab
Speaker: Raghuram G. Rajan
Director and Economic Counselor
Research Department
IMF, Washington, D.C. , USA.
Topic: The Persistence of Underdevelopment Constituencies
and Competitive Rent Seeking
Discussant: Akmal Hussain
Managing Director
Sayyed Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Lahore.
01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m. LUNCH
Thematic Session
Bureaucracy for
Growth
02:00 p.m. - 04:00
p.m.
Venue: Crystal B
Chairperson:
Aitazaz Ahsan
Panelists: Perception Survey of Civil Servants.
Nadeem Ul Haque
Director
PIDE, Islamabad.
Senior Executive Service: Lessons for the National Executive
Service and Civil Service Reform in Paksitan.
Afzal Latif
Public Policy Training and Civil Service Reforms.
Anjum Khurshid
Vice President, Information Technology
The Medical Institute for Sexual Health Austin, Texas, USA.
Pre-eminent Issues for the Civil Service Reform Agenda in
Pakistan.
Musharraf R. Cyan
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
Atlanta, USA.
The Sinews of Governance: Bureaucracy, Narrative and Power
under Colonialism and Independence.
Imran Ali
Professor of Economic History and Business Policy
LUMS, Lahore.
04:00 p.m. – 04:30 p.m. TEA
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Thematic Session
Governance and
Institutions.
04:30 p.m. – 06:30
p.m.
Venue: Crystal B
Chairperson:
Imran Khan
Chairman
Tehrik-i-Insaf and
Member of the
National Assemble,
Islamabad.
Topic: Governance and Institutions.
Panelists:The Causal Link between Governance and
Development: Re-examining the Evidence.
Surjit Bhalla
Oxus Research and Investment
New Delhi, India.
The “New Institutional Economics” Approach to Economic
Development: A Discussion of Social, Political, Legal and
Economic Institutions.
Omar Afzar
Associate Professor of Economics
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA.
Geography, Institutions and Development: A Bayesian
Approach.
Adeel Malik
Lecturer in Development Economics
University of Oxford, UK.
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Third Technical Session December 21, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Markets and Regulations-II
Financial Deregulation-II
Chairperson: Khalid Mirza
Chairman Monopoly Control
Authority, Islamabad
Chairperson: Zubair Khan
Venue Crystal B Venue: Emerald AB
1. Trade Liberalisation, Financial Sector
Reforms and Growth.
Muhammad Arshad Khan, Research
Associate, and
Abdul Qayyum, Associate Professor, PIDE,
Islamabad.
1. Market Manipulation, Volatility and Regulatory
Study of Bombay and Karachi Stock
Markets.Jamshed Y. Uppal, Assistant Professor of
FinanceDepartment of Business and
Economics,Catholic University of America, USA,
and Inayat U. Mangla,Professor of Finance,
Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan
University, USA.
2. Badla Investment in the Karachi Stock
Exchange: An Investigation of Causal
Relations.
Fazal Hussain, Sr. Research Economist, PIDE,
Islamabad, and Abdul Rashid, Institute of
Business Management, Karachi.
2. Impact of Regulatory Reforms on Labour
Efficiency in the Indian and Pakistani
Commercial Banks.
Shabbar Jaffry, Reader in Economics and Director
of Postgraduate Programme in Economics,
Department of Economics, Portsmouth Business
School, University of Portsmouth, Richmond
Building, Portland Street, UK.
3. X-efficiency, Scale Economies,
Technological Progress and Competition of
Pakistani’s Bank.
Abdul Qayyum, Associate Professor, and
Sajawal Khan, Research Associate, PIDE,
Islamabad.
3. Sectoral Efforts of Monetary Policy.
Tasneem Alam and Muhammad Waheed, Ph. D
scholars, PIDE, Islamabad.
4. Policy Induced Inflation: An Analysis of
Core Inflation in a Broader Perspective.
Kalbe Abbas, Research Economist, PIDE,
Islamabad.
4. Governance of Money Laundering (M.L):
An Application of Principle Agent Model.
Syed Azhar H. Shah, St. George College, London
U.K. Syed Akhtar H. Shah,Ph. D Scholar, PIDE
and M. Sajawal Khan, Research Associate, PIDE,
Islamabad.
5.Determinants of Recent Inflation in
Pakistan
Abdul Aleem Khan, SPDC, Karachi; Syed
Kalim Hyder Bukhari, LSE, Lahore; Qazi
Masood Ahmed, IBA, Karachi
DISCUSSANT: Ejaz Ghani
PIDE, Islamabad.
DISCUSSANT: Ahmed M. Khalid
Bond University, Australia.
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Third Technical Session December 21, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Governance and Institutions-II
Growth and Exports
Chairperson: Shahid Amjad Chaudhry
Rector, Lahore School of
Economics, Lahore.
Chairperson: Anjum Nasim
LUMS
Lahore.
Venue Shalimar A Venue: Zavier
1. Governing the Labour Market: The
Impossibility of Cooperationist Reforms.
Muhammad Zahid Siddique, Lecturer in
Economics,
National University of Computer & Emerging
Sciences-FAST, Karachi, Javed Akbar Ansari,
Dean,
and Qazi Mohammad Salman, Jr. Fellow, College
of Management Sciences, PAF-Karachi Institute of
Economics Technology, Karachi.
1. Determinants of Exports in Developing
Countries.
Muhammad Tariq Majeed, Lecturer in
Economics, and Eatzaz Ahmad, Chairman,
Department of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad.
2. Badla Investment in the Karachi 2.
Institutions, Economic Growth, and the Role of
Social Capital.
Amir Mahmood, Associate Professor, Newcastle
Graduate School of Business, University of
Newcastle, Australia.
2. Money Output and Inflation: Evidence
from Pakistan.
Wasim Shahid Malik, Research Associate,
PIDE, Islamabad.
3. Corrupt Clubs and the Convergence
Hypothesis.
Naved Ahmad, Associate Professor of Economics,
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
3. Effects of Exchange Rate on Output and
Price Level: Evidence from Pakistan
Economy.
Munir A.S. Chaudhry and Muhammad
Aslam Chaudhry, Department of
Economics, Punjab University, Lahore.
4. Towards Good Governance: Developing an E-
Government.
Adeel Ghayur, Lecturer, University Institute of
Information Technology, Rawalpindi.
4. Managing Fresh Fruits Trade under
WTO Scenario: A Case Study of Citrus
Export from Paksitan.
Muhammad Sharif, Chief Scientific Officer,
NARC, Islamabad, Usman Mustafa, Chief
Training and Project Evaluation Division,
PIDE, Islamabad, and Umar Farooq,
SSO/Deputy Director (Agricultural
Economics), SSD, PARC, Islamabad.
5. Law as a Cultural System: Chaudhry, Mullah
and Judge in Pakistani Legal Culture.
M. Azam Chaudhry, Department Anthropology
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
5. Export Function Estimates for the
Pakistani Carpet Industry
Sam Cameron, Bradford University,
England; Khair-uz-Zaman, Gomal
University, D. I. Khan
DISCUSSANT: Adeel Malik
University of Oxford, UK.
DISCUSSANT: Khawaja Idrees
PIDE, Islamabad
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Day Third, December 21, 2006
The Allama Iqbal Lecture (sponsored by MCB Bank)
Governance
11:30 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
Venue: Crystal B
Chairperson: Jahangir Tareen (Minister)
Federal Minister
Islamabad.
Speaker: Danyal Aziz
Chairman
National Reconstruction Bureau
Prime Minister Secretariat,
Islamabad.
Topic: An Approach to Governance
Reforms.
Discussants: Surjit Bhalla
Oxus Research
and Investment
New Delhi, India.
01:00 p.m. – 02:00 p.m. LUNCH
Thematic Session
Law Constitutionalism and Economics
02:00 p.m. – 03:30 p.m.
Venue: Crystal B
Chairperson: Pervaiz Hassan
Advocate
High Court, Lahore.
Panelists:Judicial Systems and
Authoritarian Transitions.
Hilton L. Root and Karen May
The Jurisprodence of Dissolutions:
Presidential Power to Dissolve Assemblies
under the Pakistani Constitution and its
Discontents.
Osama Siddique
Department of Law
Lahore University of Management
Sciences, Lahore.
Specialised Commercial Benches in the
High Courts
Ahmed Hosain
Advocate, Advocates & Corporate
Counsel, Lahore
Property Rights and Taxonomy of Land
Records: A Case Study of Lahore.
Fooqua Saadiq Khan
Visiting Fellow
PIDE, Islamabad.
Land Locked: An Examination of Some of the
Inefficiencies Affecting Transactions Involving
Immovable Property
Ahmad Rafay Alam
Advocate High Court
Lahore.
Feisel Naqvi
03:30 p.m. – 04:00 p.m. TEA
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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The Quaid-I-Azam Lecture
(sponsored by Askari Commercial Bank Ltd.)
Role of Government
04:00 p.m. – 06:00 p.m.
Venue: Crystal B
Chairperson: Lieutenant Gen. (Retired)
Khalid Maqbool
Governor of the Punjab
Governor House,
Lahore
Speaker: Abdul Hafeez Shaikh
Former Minister
Privatisation and Investment
Commission
Islamababad.
Topic: Role of Government in Economic
Development.
Discussants: A. R. Kemal
Formerly Director PIDE
Islamabad.
06:00 p.m. – 06:30 p.m. Award Ceremony
Pakistan Society of Development Economists
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Day Fourth, December 22, 2006
Round Table
Decentralisation and
Devolution
09:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
Venue: Shamiana
Chairperson: Babar Ali
LUMS, Lahore.
Theme: Decentralisation and Devolution.
Panelists:
Making Decentralisation Work
Syed Ali Raza
Chairman and President
National Bank of Pakistan, Karachi.
Community and Economic Development in
Pakistan: The Case of Citizen Community Boards
in Hafizabad and Japanese Perspective.
Takashi Kurosaki
Professor
Institute of Economic Research
Hitotsubashi University
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.
Political Access, Campaign Financing and Median
Voter Model.
Ghazia Aslam
Voice and Votes: Does Decentralisation Work for
the Poor.
Regina Birner, IFPRI, and
Sarfraz Khan Qureshi
Chief Executive
Innovative Development Strategies (IDS)
Islamabad.
The Political Economy of Devolved Provision:
Equity-based Targeting or Elite Capture – Case
Evidence from 2 Pakistani Unions
Ali Cheema and Shandana Khan Mohmand
Devolution for Empowering the Poor:
Institutions, Norms and Power.
Akmal Hussain and Savail Hussain
Participatory Development Praxis: A Case Study
From Pakistan’s Punjab.
Akmal Hussain
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. TEA
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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Invited Panel Discussion
State and the Economy in
Pakistan
12:00 noon - 01:30 p.m.
Venue: Shamiana
Chairperson: Salman Shah
Advisor to Prime
Minister on
Finance.
Topic: State and the Economy in Pakistan:Where
have we come from? Where do we go?
Speaker: Pervez Hasan
Chairman
Working Group on External Sector
Ministry of Finance
Islamabad.
Discussant: Mohammad Azizali
IMF , Washington, D. C.
USA
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List of Participants
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1 Dr. Nadeem ul Haque Islamabad
2 Mr. Mumtaz Anwar Jermany
3 Syed Muhammad Ali Lahore
4 Muhammad Aziz Ali USA
5 Dr. Mehtab S Karim Karachi
6 Mr. Muhammad Nizam ud Din Gujrat
7 Mr. Saeed Shafaqat (NIPS) Islamabd
8 Mr. Ismail Cessay (World Bank) Islamabad
9 Mr. David Johnson (DFID) Islamabad
10 Mr. G Y Soomro Islamabad
11 Mr. Tariq Khosa Islamabad
12 Farhan Hameed USA
13 Dr. Zafar Altaf Islamabad
14 David Orden USA
15 Mr. Ceaseer USA
16 Dr. Sohail J. Malik Islamabad
17 Rizwana Siddiqui Islamabad
18 Muhammad Iqbal Karachi
19 Asma Hyder Islamabad
20 Nazema Shaheen Islamabad
21 Noman Saeed Karachi
22 Asghar Ali Karachi
23 Kaleem Hyder Karachi
24 Dr. Eatzaz Ahmad Islamabad
25 Henri Lorie Islamabad
26 Kiran Yousaf Khan Islamabad
27 Rashid Ahmad Canada
28 Muhammad Azeem Qureshi Multan
29 Aman Ullah Islamabad
30 Saima Shafique Islamabad
31 Rashida Haq Islamabad
32 Dr. Talat Anwar Islamabad
33 Dr. G. M. Arif Islamabad
34 S Ayub Qutub Islamabad
35 Imran Sharif Chaudhry Multan
36 Karin Astrid Siegmann USA
37 Farooq Rashid Karachi
38 Dr. Faisal Bari Lahore
39 Syed Adnan H Shah Multan
40 Sabihuddin Butt Karachi
41 Qazi Masood Ahmad Karachi
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42 Lubna Hassan Islamabad
43 Syed Akhtar H Shah Islamabad
44 Mr. Mahmood Khalid Islamabad
45 Tariq Shah Islamabad
46 Mr. Sabir Karachi
47 Zehra Aftab Islamabad
48 Riaz Khan Islamabad
49 Dawood Mamoon Netherland
50 Shahid Akram Multan
51 Dr. Shabbar Jaffry UK
52 Ghazia Aslam Islamabad
53 Regina Dirner Islamabad
54 Dr Sarfraz Khan Qureshi Islamabad
55 Dr Pervaiz Hassan Islamabad
56 Anjum Khurshid USA
57 Musharraf R Cyan USA
58 Shahnawaz Malik Multan
59 Mahmood ul Hassan Multan
60 Shahzad Hussain Multan
61 Tony Venables UK
62 Imran Khan Lahore
63 Aitzaz Ahsan Lahore
64 Babar Ali Lahore
65 Salman Ghani Islamabad
66 Ali Cheema Lahore
67 Akmal Hussain Islamabad
68 Ms Attiya Javaid Islamabad
69 Dr. Abid Hameed Kharachi
70 Mr. Hammad Asharaf Karachi
71 Mr. Sabihuddin Karachi
72 Dr. Shahbaz Akmal Karachi
73 Qazi Masood Ahmad Karachi
74 Mr. Idrees Khawaja Islamabad
75 Dr. Musleh-ud Din Islamabad
76 Mr. Saqib Sherani Islamabad
77 Mr. Noor Pir Khan Peshawar
78 Dr. Seeme Malik Islamabad
79 Ms Naghmana Islamabad
80 Ms. Shahnaz Hameed Islamabad
81 Mr. Zeeeshan Anam Karachi
82 Dr. Raghuram Rajan USA
83 Mr. Sajawal Khan USA
84 Mr. Sujit Bhalla UK
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85 Dr. Omar Azfar USA
86 Dr. Adeel Malik UK
87 Mr. Arshad Khan Islamabad
88 Mr. Abdul Rashid Karachi
89 Mr. Sajawal Khan Islamabad
90 Mr. Kalbe Abbas Islamabad
91 Mr. Abdul Aleem Khan Karachi
92 Kalim Hyder Karachi
93 Mr. Jamshed Uppal USA
94 Mr. Tasneem Alam Islamabad
95 Syed Azhar Hussain Shah UK
96 Mr. Tariq Mahmood Islamabad
97 Dr. Ejaz Ghani Islamabad
98 Dr. Muslehud Din Islamabad
99 M. Zahid Siddique Karachi
100 Amir Mahmood Australia
101 Dr. Naved Ahmad Karachi
102 Dr. Adeel Ghayur Rawalpindi
103 Dr M Azam Chaudhry Islamabad
104 Tariq Majeed Islamabad
105 Wasim Shahid Malik Islamabad
106 M Sharif Islamabad
107 Dr. Usman Mustafa Islamabad
108 Umar Farooq Islamabad
109 Dr. Khair uz Zaman DI Khan
110 Hilton Root USA
111 Foqia Sadiq Khan Islamabad
112 Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh Islamabad
113 Dr. A. R. Kemal Islamabad
114 Donya Aziz Islamabad
115 Danyal Aziz Islamabad
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