Nadeem Ul Haque

Impact of Export Subsidies on Pakistan’s Exports

Throughout Pakistan’s history, policy has sought to promote exports through government support and incentives. The government machinery is geared to export promotion especially through direct and indirect subsidies. Surprisingly, these policies have been continued without serious examination. This paper makes a first attempt to evaluate these policies by estimating the impact of two such schemes—export …

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Why Civil Service Reforms Do Not Work

Public sector reform (PSR) efforts in developing countries have been less than successful in the past. Motivated by budgetary considerations, they have focused on downsizing and procedural changes without radically altering the outmoded incentive system, which, in many countries, is now characterised by declining real wages, wage compression, and a non-merit promotion and reward system. …

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Gender and Empowerment Evidence from Pakistan

PIDE has for years been providing Pakistan with studies based on hard evidence and strong analysis. In keeping with this tradition, this volume, Gender and Empowerment: Evidence from Pakistan, presents survey-based evidence to examine several aspects of the role and status of women in our society. The study shows that gender differences in access/availability to …

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Domestic Commerce – The Missing Link

Participants in the workshops noted the following factors as constraining domestic commerce: → Lack of educated and trained human resource. Education system not delivering the kind of manpower required. → Lack of physical infrastructure. Poor road network. Limited, expensive and uncertain electricity. → Frequent changes in Government policies. → Fundamentalists can impact commerce without threat …

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Public Sector Efficiency Perspectives on Civil Service Reform

Order Now Economic research over the last decade has shown that underdevelopment persists where governance is of a poor quality. Un modernised and unreformed structures of governance often increase the cost of doing business and hence reduce the competitiveness of a country. It is no wonder that countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Korea that developed …

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Promoting Domestic Commerce For Sustainable Pro Poor Growth (Urdu)

To frame the issue, two characteristics of Pakistan should be noted. First, Pakistan has a very large market of 160 million people. For decades, this fact has been ignored in policy because of the focus on production and exports.1 Second, a large and growing population has now produced a huge youth bulge in the population …

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Promoting Domestic Commerce For Sustainable Pro Poor Growth (English)

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Awake the Sleeper Within: Releasing the Energy of Stifled Domestic Commerce!

Policy in Pakistan has been fairly path-dependant, placing a higher weight on export promotion and domestic industrialisation development than on domestic commerce. Yet domestic commerce is growing rapidly, and quite possibly is the largest sector in the economy. This paper argues that a more holistic policy, with no favourites, that allows for all sectors to …

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Brain Drain or Human Capital Flight

The Brain drain literature has recently been revived. Several new papers have been written while several international organi s ations and univers ities are initiating long term research projects. Developing country economists and activists have long voiced their concerns for the short supply of domestic skills in their countries. 1 Unfortunately, the new literature seems …

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Vision and Ownership – Understanding Economic Reform

I am a Pakistani who trained to be an economist to see if I could help my country seek its way out of a poverty trap. Unfortunately, all I bought myself was a job in an international organization. My preoccupation with the study of my own country’s economic problems remained strong and I continued to …

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