Inaugural Address

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (4I) ◽  
pp. 313-318
Author(s):  
Makhdoom Shahab-Ud-Din
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

It is with great pleasure that I inaugurate the Eleventh Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. I have noted with satisfaction the contribution this Society has made over the years to add to our knowledge about the importance of development economics, and particularly in comprehending adequately the multi-dimensional character of the development process and for framing fruitful policies to accelerate the rate of economic development. Above all, it has given an institutional shape to the meaningful dialogue between professional economists and policy-makers. I am delighted to see such a large number of distinguished economists from all over the world participating in the Society’s deliberations. Only the best results can be expected to come out of such objective discussions about some of the highly topical economic issues of our time. I wish to extend my appreciation to the Society for providing such an effective platform to economists, demographers, and anthropologists.

scholarly journals Inaugural Address

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4I) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Author(s):  
Abdul Hafeez Sheikh
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
New Ideas

Dr Rashid Amjad, President Pakistan Society of Development Economists and Vice-Chancellor PIDE, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to address the 27th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE). I am pleased to note that the Society has been instrumental in promoting scholarly research and debate on critical socio-economic issues facing Pakistan, and that the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) has played a vital role in promoting and nurturing the Society since its inception in 1982. The Society has not only upheld and galvanized the profession of development economics in Pakistan but has also helped inspire new ideas for the greater development and prosperity of Pakistan. Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to see that when I address you today Pakistan's economy is again showing distinct signs of recovery and we hope to achieve a growth rate of 4 to 5 percent this year which should help lift us to a much higher growth trajectory in the future. Despite the heavy headwinds that we have had to face, our government took important fundamental economic decisions of which we can be justly proud.

Inaugural Address

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (4I) ◽  
pp. 347-353
Author(s):  
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
The Past

Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Dr Ghaffar Chaudhry, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my privilege to inaugurate the Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. During the past six years of its existence the Society, which I founded in 1982, has become an institution devoted to the pursuit of scientific virtuosity and academic rectitude. It has provided a powerful medium through which a serious discussion of economic and demographic issues related to Pakistan's economy has become possible. I am happy to know that by this time over one hundred papers, written by scholars from all over the world, have been presented in this forum. In addition, the Inaugural Address, the Presidential Address, the Quaid-i-Azam Lectures, and the Guest Lectures, presented in this forum each year, provide a synoptic review of the fields of development economics and demography, and of issues relating to the economics of education, health and the role of women in the development process. This massive intellectual output should strengthen the process of knowledge creation by matching the theories of economic development with the 'reality' in the developing countries. The resulting literature, with a focus on Pakistan, also provides rich source material and guidelines for policy formulation in the field of socio-economic development. I must add, however, that while due to the contributions of the Society we know much more about the nature of the development problem, our knowledge of how to solve it has probably not expanded as much.

Inaugural Address

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-221
Author(s):  
Mian Muhammad Yasin Khan Wattoo
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

Mr President of the Society, Secretary of the Society, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure to inaugurate the Third Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE). I am happy to note that, within only four years of its existence, the Society has become one of the most important national forums for discussing economic and demographic issues relating to Pakistan's economy and has attracted to its fold a large number of social scientists from all over the world. The first and second Annual General Meetings of the Society, held in the last two years, have already generated a substantial body of relevant knowledge about development economics and Pakistan's economy. I am sure that the third meeting will be even more fruitful in this respect.

Inaugural Address

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4I) ◽  
pp. 329-333
Author(s):  
Sartaj Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Dr A. R. Kemal, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a matter of pleasure and privilege for me to inaugurate the Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. I;un grateful to the President of the Society for his invitation to address this august body. I am pleased to observe that in its short but eventful existence the Society has grown in stature, nationally and internationally. It has contributed immensely to the cause of development economics and has deepened our understanding of the development process in Pakistan. The Society has carried out its task: in a low-keyed but efficient fashion, and has shown its commitment to achieving academic excellence. I wish to congratulate the Society for its accomplishments, with the sincere hope that it will continue to pursue its mission with undivided attention. This session of the Society is taking place at a crucial time. On the international front, the world is in the grip of a serious crisis emanating from the Gulf situation and the slowing down of world economic growth. And at home, despite many constraints the newly elected Government has embarked upon a bold programme of economic and social development and reforms.

Inaugural Address

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (4I) ◽  
pp. 349-354
Author(s):  
Sartaj Az1z
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
International Forum ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Great Satisfaction ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Shed Light

Professor Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Distinguished Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great privilege for me to inaugurate the Ninth Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE) and exchange ideas with eminent national and international economists, planners and scholars. It is a source of great satisfaction to note the contribution of PSDE to enhance knowledge in the area of economic development in Pakistan and abroad. Since its formal inception in 1983, the Society has grown in many ways-it has broadened its scope as well as gained in-depth, and has also attained the stature of a prestigious international forum, which provides an opportunity to outstanding scholars, policy-makers and economists to shed light on new ideas. The Society and its office bearers deserve our congratulations on conducting their affairs in such a competent and constructive manner.

Inaugural Address

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Mahbub Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Policy Makers

Prof. Naqvi, Dr Sarfraz Qureshi, Ladies and Gentlemen! It is certainly a great privilege for me to inaugurate the Second Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. Even though these days I have a 'small' exercise going on for the forthcoming budget, I thought it was more important that I should come here and associate myself with fellow professionals also. I am delighted to learn from Dr Qureshi that there are 400 members of this Society. It is good to know that there are so many development economists around to lend us a helping hand. I hope that this tribe will grow. We just had the great pleasure of listening to Prof. Naqvi's Presidential Address about three categories of economists: the development policy-makers, the development economists and the defunct economists. I am sure that the Address gave you both as much pleasure and as many uncomfortable thoughts as it gave me because it made us do some soul-searching to find out which category we belonged to. I made the unpleasant discovery, as I reviewed myself, that I probably belong in part to all the three categories.

Inaugural Address

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-253
Author(s):  
Mian Muhammad Yasin Khan Wattoo
Keyword(s):  
General Meeting ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Almost All

Prof. Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Dr M. Ghaffar Chaudhry, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a privilege for me to inaugurate the Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. I am pleased to note that within only five years of its existence the Society has evolved into a prestigious forum for a free and precious exchange of ideas among economists and policy-makers. I am told that through these annual general meetings 74 papers on various topics have been prepared and published, and that, in its Lecture Series on Development Economics, eminent international economists and demographers have read papers on leading issues in economics and demography. The literature created under the aegis of the Society furnishes useful insights into the functioning of the economy and has contributed to the comprehension of the problems of almost all areas of Pakistan's economy - agriculture, industry, trade, resource mobilization, etc. I am happy to note that the Society has helped to promote a scientific and pragmatic approach in policy-formulation and economic decision-making, and has enabled us to think systematically about the nature of the challenges posed and faced by Pakistan's economic development and about the response to this challenge.

Inaugural Address

1984 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Stage Of Development

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to inaugurate the First Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. Based in the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the Society is intended to play a key role in disseminating information on pressing economic problems and in providing a permanent forum for a free and dispassionate exchange of ideas among professional economists and policy-makers. I am confident that the Society will set in motion a process of interplay between the ideas produced by the economists and the pragmatic application of these ideas by the policy-makers in the world of reality, thereby engendering efficiently functioning models of growth and development. Economics is a living and practical science which must draw its inspiration from and determine the parameters of its theories on the basis of actual organisation of economic life around us and the nature of economic problems faced at a particular stage of development. Theories and models, in turn, must stand the test of practical application in the market-place. A dialogue between the economists and the policy-makers, if they have to be at all placed into separate categories as a part of product discrimination, would represent the most desirable synthesis of professional energy, and for such a dialogue this Society, I am sure, will provide an ideal forum.

Inaugural Address

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (4I) ◽  
pp. 297-305
Author(s):  
Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World

Dr Sarfraz Khan Qureshi, Director of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to be present here this morning. Over the years, the Pakistan Society of Development Economists has made notable contributions to the profession of Economics and Planning. It has also helped to strengthen the evolution of scientific knowledge in Development Economics. More importantly, it has given an institutional shape to the exchange of ideas between economists, other social scientists, and policy-makers. I am happy to note that a large number of distinguished academics and policy-makers from all over the world regularly participate in the Society’s meetings. I earnestly hope that useful policy prescriptions will emerge from the deliberations that take place here about the major issues in economy. Indeed, I wish to extend my appreciation to the Society for providing a lively and effective platform both to researchers and policy-makers.

Inaugural Address

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (4I) ◽  
pp. 335-338
Author(s):  
Sartaj Az1z
Keyword(s):  
General Meeting ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Finance Minister ◽  
Distinguished Group

It is a matter of great pleasure and privilege for me to inaugurate the Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists and to address such a distinguished group of professional economists and policymakers. Many of you will recall Lord Keynes famous remark, "Every politician is a slave of some defunct economist". Perhaps the only way for a politician to escape that Keynesian trap is to remain an economist. That is what I am trying to do, but I have begun to realise that the principles of good economics cannot always be reconciled with the requirements of politics. Similarly, a Finance Minister cannot always be both popular and patriotic at the same time. Often he has to make a deliberate choice of taking unpopular decisions in the national interest.

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