Lord Keynes in a famous statement said that “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”It is not surprising to …
Devolution in Pakistan is an evolving subject. Even as we speak fresh local government law is being debated and developed for legislation sometime this year. Devolution in Pakistan is moving in the direction of the expectations for city management in the rest of the world (see Box1). The debate on local government is sporadic but …
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The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) organised a conference on the development policy of Pakistan with a focus on planning and public investment policy. At the Conference, a PIDE study entitled, Doing Development Better1 was launched and discussed. The key findings of the conference are listed below:
It is indeed an honour to present the Mahbub ul Haq Memorial lecture this year at the PSDE. Dr Haq was the single most important economist that Pakistan has produced. He laid the groundwork for the development planning as well as affected many a policy debate in the international circles the most memorable of which …
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The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) organized a conference on the development policy of Pakistan with a focus on planning and public investment policy. At the Conference (see Box 3 for details), a PIDE study entitled, Doing Development Better’ was launched and discussed.
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