The golden jubilee presidential address “what price progress?”

In this Golden Jubilee year of the Institute it is befitting that the theme of my Presidential Address should be ‘The State of the Institute’. Since the formation of the Institute in 1947, Council has continually addressed this theme, recognizing the need throughout the years to maintain a twin-track approach. One track has been to address navigation issues, relying heavily for solutions on the expertise of members, and the other track has been to adopt measures which secure the future for the Institute. The first track has presented little problem, for within the Institute there are many experts, ranging from the practitioners of the art of navigation to the practitioners of the science and understanding of navigation and its associated disciplines. It is the second track, concerned with the future of the Institute, that requires Officers and Council to steer a sensible safe course around ominous thunder clouds that develop as rapidly as those in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

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Environment and Natural Resource Management (The Presidential Address)

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v46i4ipp.325-336 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 46 (4I) ◽

pp. 325-336

Author(s):

Rashid Amjad

Keyword(s):

Natural Resource Management ◽

Development Economics ◽

Presidential Address ◽

General Meeting ◽

Annual Conference ◽

Planning Commission ◽

Deputy Chairman ◽

High Regard ◽

Golden Jubilee ◽

Different Parts

Engr. Dr. M. Akram Sheikh, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of Pakistan. Past Presidents of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Distinguished participants to the 23rd Annual Conference and General Meeting of the Society. Ladies and Gentlemen: It is indeed an honour and privilege for me to deliver the Presidential address at this prestigious forum. I am very well aware of my distinguished predecessors who have served as Presidents of this Society and I hope that I can during my tenure do justice to this responsibility. As you perhaps know yesterday we held the first Convocation of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics and in the afternoon we launched the Golden Jubilee Celebrations to mark fifty years of its existence. I am sure that given the high regard and esteem with which we all hold the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, members of the Society will share in the pride that we all feel on the award of 10 PhDs and one MPhil to students of the Institute and also join me in congratulating the Institute on the occasion of its Golden Jubilee. The plans are to hold the Golden Jubilee Celebrations in different parts of the country and we look forward to your active participation in these events.

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