scholarly journals Environment and Natural Resource Management (The Presidential Address)

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.

scholarly journals Economic Growth and Development: New Directions (The Presidential Address)

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4I) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
Rashid Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Finance Minister ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Deputy Chairman ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Parts

Finance Minister, Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Dr Nadeem VI Haque, Patron of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists and Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 27th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. On behalf of the members of the PSDE, I would like to thank you, Finance Minister for having spared your precious time to open this important meeting. I would like also to especially thank our members and guests who have come from different parts of the country and from different continents to participate in the Conference. We are extremely pleased to see here today many young students of Economics and Development-Pakistan's future economists and development specialists-who I am sure are enthusiastic to learn from the many leading economists attending this Conference of the critical issues and economic challenges that we face at the national, regional and global levels.

scholarly journals Inaugural Address

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (4I) ◽  
pp. 327-329
Author(s):  
Syed Naveed Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deputy Chairman

Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr Rashid Amjad, President, Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Dr G. M. Arif, Secretary Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen! It is indeed a privilege and honour to address this distinguished gathering of economists and social scientists. Over the years the Annual Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists has become one of the leading events on the calendar of meetings where experts from various disciplines discuss cutting edge issues that confront developing economies in general and Pakistan’s economy in particular. I want to especially congratulate the Society and the President on completing 25 years as it celebrates its Silver Jubilee. I am very happy that the founding President, Prof. Dr Nawab Haider Naqvi is with us today and that some of the past Presidents are also present. The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the home of the Society, also needs to be congratulated for holding such conferences on an annual and regular basis. I am very happy that this meeting as in the past is being attended by internationally acclaimed economists and academics from both within and outside the country. I am especially heartened to see that students of economics from all over Pakistan have been especially invited to attend this meeting.

scholarly journals Fiscal Decentralisation: Empowering the Provinces, Strengthening the Federation (The Presidential Address)

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (4I) ◽  
pp. 279-282
Author(s):  
Rashid Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Past President ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Short Notice ◽  
Deputy Chairman ◽  
Fiscal Decentralisation ◽  
Different Parts

It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 26th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the PSDE. I would like to thank you Deputy Chairman and Past President of the PSDE for your time to inaugurate the meeting. I would like to thank our members and many guests who have come from all over Pakistan and abroad to participate in the Conference. A special welcome to students of economics and business studies from PIDE and different universities in Islamabad and from different parts of Pakistan, who are I am sure, just as eager as the senior members to understand the issues to be discussed at the Conference better. Let me join Dr Musleh ud Din in welcoming our distinguished speakers, Dr Vito Tanzi, Dr Ehtisham Ahmed and Dr Anwar Shah who will be delivering the invited lectures this year. Our chief guest, I might add at short notice, will deliver the prestigious Quaid-i-Azam Lecture this year.

scholarly journals Investing in People (The Presidential Address)

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (4I) ◽  
pp. 331-335
Author(s):  
Rashid Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
Federal Minister ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Finance Minister ◽  
Deputy Chairman ◽  
Active Interest

Syed Naveed Qamar, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Professor Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Former President, PSDE, Dr Sarfraz Khan Qureshi, Former President, PSDE, Dr G. M. Arif, Secretary, PSDE, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society. Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 25th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. We are extremely grateful to Syed Naveed Qamar, Federal Minister, Petroleum and Natural Resources, for having spared his precious time to join us at the inaugural session. It was during your tenure as Finance Minister that important and difficult economic decisions were taken to restore macroeconomic stability resulting from the unprecedented increases in international commodity prices, the global financial meltdown and neglect and inaction of past policy-makers. That the economy today has achieved macro stability in many of the key indicators is to a large measure the result of these decisions. I am also extremely grateful to our Patron Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, for his active interest and support to the work of our Society. A warm welcome to our members and guests who have come from different parts of the country and abroad. It is especially satisfying to see our future economists from all over the country join us at the Conference. Let me join Dr Arif in welcoming Dr Mohsin Khan who will be delivering the Quaid-i-Azam Lecture, Professor Hirashima who will be delivering the Allama Iqbal Lecture, Professor John Casterline, the Mahbubul Haq Lecture and Professor Robin Burgess, the Gustav Ranis Lecture (which we started last year).

scholarly journals Economic Sustainability in a Globalised World (The Presidential Address)

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (4I) ◽  
pp. 331-335
Author(s):  
Rashid Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Deputy Chairman ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Independent Thinking

Mr Prime Minister, Patron of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists and Chancellor PIDE, Minister for Planning and Development, Ministers, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 24th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. We are extremely grateful and honoured by the presence of the Prime Minister. On behalf of the members of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE), I would like to thank you, Sir, for having spared your precious time to grace this occasion. I would like also to especially thank our guests who have come from different parts of the country and from abroad to participate in the Conference. We are heartily pleased to see here today many students of Economics and other social sciences from different colleges and universities of Pakistan who are just as eager as regular members to understand our subject better. Let me join Dr Arif in especially welcoming Professor Yu Yongding, Professor John Mellor, Professor Siddiqur Rahman Osmani, and Dr Parvez Hasan, who will be delivering the Invited Lectures this year. At the outset, on behalf of all members of the PSDE, I would like to recognise the support and encouragement of the Prime Minister as Chairman of the Planning Commission to the initiative taken by the Deputy Chairman and his predecessor Mr Salman Faruqui to actively involve professional economists in Pakistan in the process of economic policy-making. The new Task Forces on critical economic concerns and the Advisory Panel of Economists to frame the short-run and medium-term policies by the Planning Commission are democracy’s gifts to the economists of Pakistan. Democracy encourages independent thinking, accommodates diverse viewpoints, and thus makes it possible to evolve a comprehensive policy for all.

scholarly journals “Economic Reforms for Productivity, Innovation and Growth” (The Presidential Address)

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (4I) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Rashid Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Finance Minister ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Deputy Chairman ◽  
Progressive Policy ◽  
The Many

Finance Minister, Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Dr Nadeem Ul Haque, Patron of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists, and Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Past Presidents and Distinguished Members of the Society, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen! It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 28th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists. On behalf of the members of the PSDE, I would like to thank you, Finance Minister for having spared your precious time to open this important meeting. I would also like to especially thank our members and guests who have come from different parts of the country and from different continents to participate in the Conference. We are extremely pleased to see here today many young students—Pakistan’s future economists and business leaders—who I am sure are enthusiastic to learn from the many leading specialists attending this Conference on the critical economic issues and challenges that we face at the global, regional and national levels. Let me join Dr Musleh ud Din in especially welcoming Professor L. Alan Winters, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, who will be delivering The Mahbub Ul Haq Memorial Lecture later today; Professor M. Ali Khan, Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University, USA who will be delivering the Gustav Ranis Lecture; Dr Yannos Papantoniou, Former Economy and Finance Minister of Greece, and currently President of the Centre for Progressive Policy Research, Athens, who will deliver The Allama Iqbal Lecture; and Dr Ishrat Husain, Dean and Director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Former Governor, State Bank of Pakistan who will be delivering the Quaid-i-Azam Lecture this year. In continuation of the tradition started last year by the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE), the Society will this year be honouring Professor S. M. Naseem to acknowledge his outstanding contribution to the field of Economics and for his pioneering work on Pakistan.

A Tale of Two Hands' (Presidential Address)

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
World View ◽  
Presidential Address

This may not be the "worst of times" for the discipline of development economics, but this is also not the "best of times" for it. The discipline, rocked by a kind of schizophrenia that its votaries appear to be suffering from, is undergoing a painful, though not necessarily a Kafkaesque, metamorphosis. The consensus of the decades of the Fifties and Sixties about the nature and legitimacy of the discipline and about its 'world-view' has been seriously strained - indeed, according to some 'observers', already broken down. While the defenders of the faith [27; 36; 48] refuse to surrender, some of its erstwhile votaries [11] wish to force on the discipline a Carthaginian peace. And the dissenters [3; 24] have subjected its predictions and prescriptions to the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

In Pursuit of a New Paradigm (Presidential Address)

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4I) ◽  
pp. 337-365
Author(s):  
Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Good News ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
The Subject

After 40 years of its birth, development economics has come to be widely accepted - without universal acclaim. In sharp contrast to some pessimistic evaluations of the subject, the academic community has granted it the right to a separate existence. But the recognition has not come easy. From the first full-length evaluation of the discipline by Chenery (1965), in which he looks at it as a variation on the classical theme of comparative advantage, to Stem's (1989) sympathetic review of the contributions that the discipline has made to the state of economic knowledge, development economics has experienced many a vicissitude - both the laurels of glory and the "arrows of outrageous fortune". But, finally, it has become an industry in its own right, of which not only social profitability but also 'private' profitability appears to be strictly positive: the publishing industry continues to patronize it and publish full-length books on the subject. Four decades of development experience, the production of massive cross-country and time-series data about a large number of development variables, the construction of large macro-economic models and fast-running computers, and the application of mathematical methods, have all combined to lay the foundations of a theoretically rigorous and policy-relevant development paradigm, which is gradually replacing the old one. All this is good news for development economists, who can now afford not only bread but also some butter for their daily parsnips .

The Importance of Being Defunct (Presidential Address)

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 211-234
Author(s):  
Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Founding Fathers

For development economists these arc the days of great expectations. Development economics as a discipline, born only three decades ago, has come to stay, notwithstanding the threats to its existence issued openly by such friends as Schultz [63], Bauer [2], Little [44], and Lal [39]. New theoretical constructs have been devised and novel empirical studies done to comprehend better the forces of change in developing countries. While of late there may not have been great festivity in the realm of ideas, the force of circumstances has widened the problem canvas of development economics and has opened up new vistas for economists to explore- much beyond the expectations of its founding fathers. Also notwithstanding the great diversity in the experience of individual countries, development economists may legitimately draw some comfort from the thought that their ideas have changed the developing world for the better.

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