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Pakistan Society of Development Economists

Programme

of

The 22nd

Annual General Meeting and Conference

19th -22

nd December 2006

Theme: Governance and Institutions

Host: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics,

Islamabad

Co-hosts: CIDA, National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), DFID,

UNFPA, Askari Bank Ltd., MCB Bank, ICI Pakistan

Limited, Arif Habib Investment Company.

Venue: The Pearl-Continental, Lahore.

Contact for conference updates: www.pide.org.pk

http://www.pide.org.pk/


Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

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Programme at a Glance



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Day First, December 19, 2006

Inaugural Session

Venue: Crystal AB

1. Recitation from the Holy Quran

2. Welcome Remarks and Secretary’s Report.

Rehana Siddiqui, Secretary, PSDE

3. Presidential Address:

Economics and Governance Nadeem Ul Haque

President

Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Islamabad.

4. Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest.

11:30 a.m. – 12.00 noon Refreshments

Thematic Session

Political Economy of Donor’s

Support

Venue: Emerald AB

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Chairperson: M. Akram Sheikh

Deputy Chairman

Planning Commission

Pak. Secretariat

Islamabad

Presenters:

The Political Economy of I FI’s Lending

to Pakistan.

Mumtaz Anwar

Hamburg Institute of International

Economics (HWWA) Hamburg, Germany.

Donor Support to Citizen Community

Boards in Pakistan.

Syed Mohammad Ali

International Policy Fellow

Open Society Institute

Impact of Governance Conditionality of

IFI’s on Development of Domestic

Institutions. Muhammad Azizali

IMF, Washington, D. C., USA.

Thematic Session

Effectiveness of Devolution

Programme in Pakistan

Venue: Shalimar A

12:00 noon – 01:30 p.m.

Chairperson:

Danyal Aziz

Chairman

NRB, Islamabad

Presenters: National Reconstruction Bureau

Post Devolution Enforcement of Local

and Special Laws.

Do Donor Programme Support

Devolution.

Accountability undr Local

Government System.

Citizen Community Boards.

Analysis of Provincial Finance

Commission Award.

Community and Economic

Development in Pakistan: The Case of

Citizen Community Boards in

Hafizabad and Japanese Perspectives.



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Thematic Session

Demographic Change and

Governance Issues

Venue: Zavier

12:00 noon - 01:30 p.m

Chairperson: Donya Aziz

Parliamentary Secretary

Population Welfare

Division

Government of Pakistan

Islamabad.

Presentations:

Implications of Youth Bulge on

Governance.

Mehtab S. Karim

Head, Reproductive Health Division,

Community Health Sciences, The Agha Khan

University, Karachi.

The Rapid Growth of Ageing Population

and its Implications for Governance and

Social Security.

Mohammad Nizam-ud-Din

Vice Chancellor

Gujrat University

Punjab.

Demography, Security and Governance:

Competiting Visions for Pakistan.

Saeed Shafqat

Executive Director

National Institute of Population Studies

Islamabad.

Challenges for Fertility Transition in

Pakistan.

Ghulam Y. Soomro

Senior Research Demographer

PIDE, Islamabad.

1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. LUNCH

Thematic Session

Fiscal Accountability

Venue: Crystal AB

02:15 p.m. - 03:45 p.m.

Chairperson: Tony Venables

Professor of International Economics

London School of Economics and

Political Science, UK

Public Expenditure Management, Public

Financial Management and Accountability.

Ismail Cessay

Senior Financial Management Specialist

The World Bank, Islamabad. &

David Johnson

DFID, Islamabad.

Fiscal Transparency and Economic Outcomes.

Farhan Hameed

IMF, Washington D.C., USA.

Governance and Economic Growth.

Tony Venables.

03:45 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. TEA



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Day First, December 19, 2006

Thematic Session

Security for the 21st Century Sustainable

Growth.

2:15 p.m. – 03:45 p.m.

Venue: Shalimar A

Chairperson: Mahmood Ali Khan

Chaudhry

Abu-Bakar Block

New Garden Town

Lahore.

Presentations:

Law and Order, Economic Development

and Community Based Policing, in Context

of Pakistan.

Azhar Hassan Nadeem

Additional Inspector General of Police,

Punjab.

The Evolution of the Police from Force to a

Service Model.

Tariq Khosa

DIG/FIA, Islamabad

Ali Murtaza

03:45 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. TEA

Thematic Session

Governance and Regulation of

Agriculture.

2:15 noon – 03:45 p.m.

Venue: Emerald AB

Chairperson: Ismail Qureshi

Secretary Agriculture

Islamabad.

Presentations:

Governance of Agriculture Support

Sciences.

Zafar Altaf

Ex-Chairman

Pakistan Agriculture Research Council

Islamabad.

Impact of Global Cotton and Wheat Prices

on Rural Poverty in Pakistan.

David Orden, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI,

USA, Abdul Salam, Reno Dewina, Hina

Nazli and Nicholas Minot.

Issues in Agriculture Management.

Sohail J. Malik.

03:45 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. TEA



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First Technical Session December 19, 2006 at 04:15 p.m. - 06:15 p.m.

Public/Private Choice Markets and Regulations-I

Chairperson: Najam Sethi

Lahore.

Chairperson: Arif Habib

Chairman and Chief Executive

Arif Habib Group

Karachi.

Venue: Crystal AB Venue: Emerald AB

1. Role of Household Income and Public

Provision of Basic Needs in Pakistan – A

Cross District Analysis.

Rizwana Siddiqui, Research Economist, PIDE,

Islamabad.

1. What Determines the Domestic Prices of

Agricultural Commodities in Pakistan?

Henri Lorie, Senior Resident Representative,

IMF in Pakistan, and Kiran Younas Khan,

Economist,

IMF Representative Office, Islamabad.

2. Is Good Governance an approach to Civil

Service Reforms?

Muhammad Iqbal, General Manager, Human

Resources, Civil Aviation Authority, Karachi.

2. Retailer Compliance as a Predictor of

Youth Smoking Participation and

Consumption.

Alan Diener, Sr. Survey Methodologist,

Rashid Ahmed, Sr. Data Analyst, University of

Waterloo, Judy Snider, Manager of Surveillance,

Murray J. Kaiserman, Director of Surveillance,

Surveillance and Evaluation, Tobacco Control

Programme, CANADA.

3. Public-Private Wage Differentials,

Preference for Public Sector Jobs and

Unemployment Duration in Pakistan.

Asma Hyder, Ph. D scholar, NUST Institute of

Management Sciences, Rawalpindi & Research

Fellow, PIDE, Islamabad.

3. Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing

in Pakistan: A Production Frontier Approach.

Tariq Mehmood, Ejaz Ghani, and Muslehuddin,

PIDE, Islamabad.

4. Whose Public Action? Collaboration

between State and Non-State Providers of

Basic Services in Pakistan.

Karin Astrid Siegmann, Junior Research Fellow,

Nazima Shaheen, Consultant/Research Assistant,

Saleem Shah, Research Associate SDPI,

Islamabad.

4. Did they do it differently? Capital

Structure Choice of Public Private Sector

Firms in Pakistan.

Muhammad Azeem Qureshi, Assistant Professor

in Finance, Institute of Management Sciences,

and Toseef Azid, Professor, Department of

Economics

Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.

5. The Impact of Public Investment on Private

Investment: A Disaggregated Analysis

Noman Saeed, AERC, Karachi, Kalim Hyder,

LSE, Lahore, Asghar Ali, AERC, Karachi.

DISCUSSANT: Eatzaz Ahmed

Chairman Department of Economics

QAU, Islamabad

DISCUSSANT: Abid Aman Burki

LUMS, Lahore.



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First Technical Session December 19, 2006 at 04:15 p.m. - 06:15 p.m.

Governance, Poverty and Inequality

Governance and Growth

Chairperson: Akmal Hussain

Managing Director

Sayyed Engineering Private

Limited, Lahore.

Chairperson: Arif Nizami

Nawa-i-Waqt

Venue: Shalimar C Venue: Zavier

1. Corruption and Income Inequality: A

Panel Data Analysis.

M. Aman Ullah, student, Eatzaz Ahmed,

Chairman, Department of Economics,

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

1. Sectoral Volatility, Development and

Governance: A Study of Pakistan.

Toseef Azid, Fulbright Fellow, Social and

Behavioural Sciences Division, El Camino

Community College, Torrance CA, USA.

2. Governance and Income Inequality.

Saima Shafique, Lecturer

NUML & Ph. D Scholar (Economics), Quaid-i-

Azam University, Islamabad, and Rashida Haq,

Research Economist, PIDE, Islamabad.

2. Urban Poverty and Governance: The Case

of Multan City.

Imran Sharif Chaudhry, Assistant Professor,

Shahnawaz Malik, Chairman & Professor,

Department of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya

University Multan, and Asma Imran, Lecturer in

Economics, Multan Postgraduate College, Multan.

3. Governance and Pro-Poor Growth –

Evidence from Pakistan.

Rashida Haq, Research Economist and Uzma

Zia, Staff Economist, PIDE, Islamabad.

3. The Evaluation of Efficiencies of

Governments of Pakistan.

Farooq Rasheed, Assistant Professor, Karachi

Institute of Economics and Technology, Karachi.

4. Measurement of Absolute Poverty and

Governance in Pakistan (1988-99 and 2004-

05).

Talat Anwar, Senior Economist, UNDP Project

Centre for Research on Poverty Reduction and

Income Distribution, Planning Commission,

Islamabad.

4. Myths and Realities of Long Run

Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants.

Lubna Hasan, Research Economist, PIDE,

Islamabad.

DISCUSSANT: G. M. Arif

Poverty Specialist

ADB, Islamabad.

DISCUSSANT: Faisal Bari

Associate Professor

LUMS, Lahore.



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Second Technical Session December 20, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Decentralisation and Devolution-I Governance and Institutions-I Chairperson: Arvind Virmani

Chairperson: Ahsan Iqbal

Formerly Deputy Chairman

Planning Commission

Islamabad.

Venue: Crystal B Venue: Shalimar A

1. Whether Decentralisation in Pakistan is

Purposeful? A Survey under Public Sector

Framework.

Syed Adnan Haider Ali Shah Bukhari, Lecturer

in Economics, National University of Computer

& Emerging Sciences-FAST, Karachi.,

Muhammad Sabihuddin, Dean and Qazi Masood

Ahmad, Jr. Fellow, College of Management

Sciences, PAF-Karachi Institute of Economics

Technology, Karachi.

1. Which Institutions are more relevant than

others in Inequality Mitigation?

Dawood Mamoon, Institute of Social Studies

(ISS)

The Hague, The Netherlands.

2. Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic

Growth in Pakistan.

Shahnawaz Malik, Chairman and Professor,

Mahmood-ul-Hassan and Shahzad Hussain, Ph.

D scholars, Department of Economics,

Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.

2. Economics of Regaining Office: The Case

of Pakistan.

Muhammad Shahid Akram, Ph. D Student,

Department of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya

University, Multan and Toseef Azid, Fulbright

Fellow, Social and Behavioural Sciences

Division,

El Camino Community College, Torrance CA,

USA.

3. Convergence Model of Governance: A

Case Study of Local Government System of

Pakistan.

Syed Akhtar Hussain Shah, Ph. D. Scholar,

PIDE, Islamabad and Mahmood Khalid and Tariq

Shah, Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Department, Quaid-i-Azam University,

Islamabad..

3. Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in

Pakistan.

Shabbar Jaffry, Reader in Economics and

Director of Postgraduate Programme in

Economics, Yaseen Ghulam, Sr. Lecturer,

Vyoma, Shah, Ph.D student, and Joe Cox,

Lecturer Department of Economics, Portsmouth

Business School, University of Portsmouth, UK.

4. Province-Wise Growth Patterns in Human

Capital Accumulation.

Muhammad Sabir, National Expert (GRBI)

& Senior Economist, SPDC, Karachi, and Zehra

Aftab, Research Fellow, PIDE, Islamabad.

4. Corporate Governance and Firm

Performance: Evidence from Karachi Stock

Exchange.

Attiya Y. Javed, Research Economist, PIDE,

Islamabad, Robina Iqbal, M.Phil student,

Department of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam

University, Islamabad.

DISCUSSANT: Tony Venables

DISCUSSANT: Lubna Hasan.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA



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Second Technical Session December 20, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Financial Deregulation-I

Agriculture, Environment and Governance

Chairperson: Tariq Hameed

Chairman WAPDA

Chairperson: Zafar Altaf

Formerly Chairman PARC,

Islamabad.

Venue: Shalimar C Venue: Zavier

1. Stock Market Volatility and Weak Form

Efficiency: Evidence from an Emerging Market.

Abid Hameed, Economist, Monetary Policy Department,

State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, and

Hammad Ashraf, Assistant Professor, Bahria Univeristy,

Islamabad.

1. Competitiveness and Policy Analysis of Potato

Production under different Agro-Ecological Zones

of Northern Areas: Implications for Food Security

and Poverty Alleviaiton.

Noor Pir Khan, Professor of Agricultural Economics,

NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar, and Javed

Akhtar, Agricultural Officer, Department of

Agriculture, Northern Areas of Pakistan.

2. Financial Development and Income Inequality in

Pakistan: An Application of ARDL Approach.

Muhammad Shahbaz Akmal, Economist, Applied

Economics Research Centre, Qazi Masood Ahmad,

Associate Professor, Institute of Business Administration

and Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt, Sr. Research

Economist, Applied Economics Research Centre,

University of Karachi, Karachi.

2. Relationship between Income Distribution and

the Cost of Environment and the Cost of

Environmental Management in Australia.

Seeme Mallick, Deputy Director, New Murree

Development Authority, Murree, Naghmana Ghani,

Research Economist, and Shahnaz Hameed, Research

Economist, PIDE, Islamabad.

3. Impact of Political Events on Financial Market

Volatility: Evidence from Pakistan.

Ahmed M. Khalid and Gulasekaran Rajaguru, Bond

University, Gold Coast, Australia.

3. Policy Implications of Problem of Banning

Two-Stroke Auto-Rickshaws in Lahore.

M. Rafiq Khan, Senior Research Fellow, Lahore

School of Economics, Lahore.

.

4. Banking: Interest Spread, inelastic deposit Supply

and Mergers.

M. Idrees Khawaja, Research Associate, and

Muslehuddin, Chief of Research, and PIDE, Islamabad.

4. Is Trade Good for Environment: A Link Root

Cointegration Analysis.

Samina Khalid, Senior Research Economist, and

Zeeshan Inam., Ph. D Scholar, Applied Economics

Research Centre, University of Karachi, Karachi.

DISCUSSANT: Rizwana Siddiqui

PIDE, Islamabad.

DISCUSSANT: Chaudhry Shujat Ali

Chief Economist, Planning and,

Development Board, Punjab, Lahore.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA



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Day Second, December 20, 2006

The Mahbub Ul Haq Lecture

Underdevelopment

11:30 a.m. - 01:00

p.m.

Venue: Crystal B

Chairperson:

Chief Minister

Punjab

Speaker: Raghuram G. Rajan

Director and Economic Counselor

Research Department

IMF, Washington, D.C. , USA.

Topic: The Persistence of Underdevelopment Constituencies

and Competitive Rent Seeking

Discussant: Akmal Hussain

Managing Director

Sayyed Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Lahore.

01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m. LUNCH

Thematic Session

Bureaucracy for

Growth

02:00 p.m. - 04:00

p.m.

Venue: Crystal B

Chairperson:

Aitazaz Ahsan

Panelists: Perception Survey of Civil Servants.

Nadeem Ul Haque

Director

PIDE, Islamabad.

Senior Executive Service: Lessons for the National Executive

Service and Civil Service Reform in Paksitan.

Afzal Latif

Public Policy Training and Civil Service Reforms.

Anjum Khurshid

Vice President, Information Technology

The Medical Institute for Sexual Health Austin, Texas, USA.

Pre-eminent Issues for the Civil Service Reform Agenda in

Pakistan.

Musharraf R. Cyan

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Georgia State University

Atlanta, USA.

The Sinews of Governance: Bureaucracy, Narrative and Power

under Colonialism and Independence.

Imran Ali

Professor of Economic History and Business Policy

LUMS, Lahore.

04:00 p.m. – 04:30 p.m. TEA



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Thematic Session

Governance and

Institutions.

04:30 p.m. – 06:30

p.m.

Venue: Crystal B

Chairperson:

Imran Khan

Chairman

Tehrik-i-Insaf and

Member of the

National Assemble,

Islamabad.

Topic: Governance and Institutions.

Panelists:The Causal Link between Governance and

Development: Re-examining the Evidence.

Surjit Bhalla

Oxus Research and Investment

New Delhi, India.

The “New Institutional Economics” Approach to Economic

Development: A Discussion of Social, Political, Legal and

Economic Institutions.

Omar Afzar

Associate Professor of Economics

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA.

Geography, Institutions and Development: A Bayesian

Approach.

Adeel Malik

Lecturer in Development Economics

University of Oxford, UK.



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Third Technical Session December 21, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Markets and Regulations-II

Financial Deregulation-II

Chairperson: Khalid Mirza

Chairman Monopoly Control

Authority, Islamabad

Chairperson: Zubair Khan

Venue Crystal B Venue: Emerald AB

1. Trade Liberalisation, Financial Sector

Reforms and Growth.

Muhammad Arshad Khan, Research

Associate, and

Abdul Qayyum, Associate Professor, PIDE,

Islamabad.

1. Market Manipulation, Volatility and Regulatory

Study of Bombay and Karachi Stock

Markets.Jamshed Y. Uppal, Assistant Professor of

FinanceDepartment of Business and

Economics,Catholic University of America, USA,

and Inayat U. Mangla,Professor of Finance,

Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan

University, USA.

2. Badla Investment in the Karachi Stock

Exchange: An Investigation of Causal

Relations.

Fazal Hussain, Sr. Research Economist, PIDE,

Islamabad, and Abdul Rashid, Institute of

Business Management, Karachi.

2. Impact of Regulatory Reforms on Labour

Efficiency in the Indian and Pakistani

Commercial Banks.

Shabbar Jaffry, Reader in Economics and Director

of Postgraduate Programme in Economics,

Department of Economics, Portsmouth Business

School, University of Portsmouth, Richmond

Building, Portland Street, UK.

3. X-efficiency, Scale Economies,

Technological Progress and Competition of

Pakistani’s Bank.

Abdul Qayyum, Associate Professor, and

Sajawal Khan, Research Associate, PIDE,

Islamabad.

3. Sectoral Efforts of Monetary Policy.

Tasneem Alam and Muhammad Waheed, Ph. D

scholars, PIDE, Islamabad.

4. Policy Induced Inflation: An Analysis of

Core Inflation in a Broader Perspective.

Kalbe Abbas, Research Economist, PIDE,

Islamabad.

4. Governance of Money Laundering (M.L):

An Application of Principle Agent Model.

Syed Azhar H. Shah, St. George College, London

U.K. Syed Akhtar H. Shah,Ph. D Scholar, PIDE

and M. Sajawal Khan, Research Associate, PIDE,

Islamabad.

5.Determinants of Recent Inflation in

Pakistan

Abdul Aleem Khan, SPDC, Karachi; Syed

Kalim Hyder Bukhari, LSE, Lahore; Qazi

Masood Ahmed, IBA, Karachi

DISCUSSANT: Ejaz Ghani

PIDE, Islamabad.

DISCUSSANT: Ahmed M. Khalid

Bond University, Australia.

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA



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Third Technical Session December 21, 2006 at 09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Governance and Institutions-II

Growth and Exports

Chairperson: Shahid Amjad Chaudhry

Rector, Lahore School of

Economics, Lahore.

Chairperson: Anjum Nasim

LUMS

Lahore.

Venue Shalimar A Venue: Zavier

1. Governing the Labour Market: The

Impossibility of Cooperationist Reforms.

Muhammad Zahid Siddique, Lecturer in

Economics,

National University of Computer & Emerging

Sciences-FAST, Karachi, Javed Akbar Ansari,

Dean,

and Qazi Mohammad Salman, Jr. Fellow, College

of Management Sciences, PAF-Karachi Institute of

Economics Technology, Karachi.

1. Determinants of Exports in Developing

Countries.

Muhammad Tariq Majeed, Lecturer in

Economics, and Eatzaz Ahmad, Chairman,

Department of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam

University, Islamabad.

2. Badla Investment in the Karachi 2.

Institutions, Economic Growth, and the Role of

Social Capital.

Amir Mahmood, Associate Professor, Newcastle

Graduate School of Business, University of

Newcastle, Australia.

2. Money Output and Inflation: Evidence

from Pakistan.

Wasim Shahid Malik, Research Associate,

PIDE, Islamabad.

3. Corrupt Clubs and the Convergence

Hypothesis.

Naved Ahmad, Associate Professor of Economics,

Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

3. Effects of Exchange Rate on Output and

Price Level: Evidence from Pakistan

Economy.

Munir A.S. Chaudhry and Muhammad

Aslam Chaudhry, Department of

Economics, Punjab University, Lahore.

4. Towards Good Governance: Developing an E-

Government.

Adeel Ghayur, Lecturer, University Institute of

Information Technology, Rawalpindi.

4. Managing Fresh Fruits Trade under

WTO Scenario: A Case Study of Citrus

Export from Paksitan.

Muhammad Sharif, Chief Scientific Officer,

NARC, Islamabad, Usman Mustafa, Chief

Training and Project Evaluation Division,

PIDE, Islamabad, and Umar Farooq,

SSO/Deputy Director (Agricultural

Economics), SSD, PARC, Islamabad.

5. Law as a Cultural System: Chaudhry, Mullah

and Judge in Pakistani Legal Culture.

M. Azam Chaudhry, Department Anthropology

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

5. Export Function Estimates for the

Pakistani Carpet Industry

Sam Cameron, Bradford University,

England; Khair-uz-Zaman, Gomal

University, D. I. Khan

DISCUSSANT: Adeel Malik

University of Oxford, UK.

DISCUSSANT: Khawaja Idrees

PIDE, Islamabad

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. TEA



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Day Third, December 21, 2006

The Allama Iqbal Lecture (sponsored by MCB Bank)

Governance

11:30 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.

Venue: Crystal B

Chairperson: Jahangir Tareen (Minister)

Federal Minister

Islamabad.

Speaker: Danyal Aziz

Chairman

National Reconstruction Bureau

Prime Minister Secretariat,

Islamabad.

Topic: An Approach to Governance

Reforms.

Discussants: Surjit Bhalla

Oxus Research

and Investment

New Delhi, India.

01:00 p.m. – 02:00 p.m. LUNCH

Thematic Session

Law Constitutionalism and Economics

02:00 p.m. – 03:30 p.m.

Venue: Crystal B

Chairperson: Pervaiz Hassan

Advocate

High Court, Lahore.

Panelists:Judicial Systems and

Authoritarian Transitions.

Hilton L. Root and Karen May

The Jurisprodence of Dissolutions:

Presidential Power to Dissolve Assemblies

under the Pakistani Constitution and its

Discontents.

Osama Siddique

Department of Law

Lahore University of Management

Sciences, Lahore.

Specialised Commercial Benches in the

High Courts

Ahmed Hosain

Advocate, Advocates & Corporate

Counsel, Lahore

Property Rights and Taxonomy of Land

Records: A Case Study of Lahore.

Fooqua Saadiq Khan

Visiting Fellow

PIDE, Islamabad.

Land Locked: An Examination of Some of the

Inefficiencies Affecting Transactions Involving

Immovable Property

Ahmad Rafay Alam

Advocate High Court

Lahore.

Feisel Naqvi

03:30 p.m. – 04:00 p.m. TEA



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The Quaid-I-Azam Lecture

(sponsored by Askari Commercial Bank Ltd.)

Role of Government

04:00 p.m. – 06:00 p.m.

Venue: Crystal B

Chairperson: Lieutenant Gen. (Retired)

Khalid Maqbool

Governor of the Punjab

Governor House,

Lahore

Speaker: Abdul Hafeez Shaikh

Former Minister

Privatisation and Investment

Commission

Islamababad.

Topic: Role of Government in Economic

Development.

Discussants: A. R. Kemal

Formerly Director PIDE

Islamabad.

06:00 p.m. – 06:30 p.m. Award Ceremony



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Day Fourth, December 22, 2006

Round Table

Decentralisation and

Devolution

09:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.

Venue: Shamiana

Chairperson: Babar Ali

LUMS, Lahore.

Theme: Decentralisation and Devolution.

Panelists:

Making Decentralisation Work

Syed Ali Raza

Chairman and President

National Bank of Pakistan, Karachi.

Community and Economic Development in

Pakistan: The Case of Citizen Community Boards

in Hafizabad and Japanese Perspective.

Takashi Kurosaki

Professor

Institute of Economic Research

Hitotsubashi University

2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.

Political Access, Campaign Financing and Median

Voter Model.

Ghazia Aslam

Voice and Votes: Does Decentralisation Work for

the Poor.

Regina Birner, IFPRI, and

Sarfraz Khan Qureshi

Chief Executive

Innovative Development Strategies (IDS)

Islamabad.

The Political Economy of Devolved Provision:

Equity-based Targeting or Elite Capture – Case

Evidence from 2 Pakistani Unions

Ali Cheema and Shandana Khan Mohmand

Devolution for Empowering the Poor:

Institutions, Norms and Power.

Akmal Hussain and Savail Hussain

Participatory Development Praxis: A Case Study

From Pakistan’s Punjab.

Akmal Hussain

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. TEA



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Invited Panel Discussion

State and the Economy in

Pakistan

12:00 noon - 01:30 p.m.

Venue: Shamiana

Chairperson: Salman Shah

Advisor to Prime

Minister on

Finance.

Topic: State and the Economy in Pakistan:Where

have we come from? Where do we go?

Speaker: Pervez Hasan

Chairman

Working Group on External Sector

Ministry of Finance

Islamabad.

Discussant: Mohammad Azizali

IMF , Washington, D. C.

USA



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List of Participants



18

S. No Names Cities/Countries

1 Dr. Nadeem ul Haque Islamabad

2 Mr. Mumtaz Anwar Jermany

3 Syed Muhammad Ali Lahore

4 Muhammad Aziz Ali USA

5 Dr. Mehtab S Karim Karachi

6 Mr. Muhammad Nizam ud Din Gujrat

7 Mr. Saeed Shafaqat (NIPS) Islamabd

8 Mr. Ismail Cessay (World Bank) Islamabad

9 Mr. David Johnson (DFID) Islamabad

10 Mr. G Y Soomro Islamabad

11 Mr. Tariq Khosa Islamabad

12 Farhan Hameed USA

13 Dr. Zafar Altaf Islamabad

14 David Orden USA

15 Mr. Ceaseer USA

16 Dr. Sohail J. Malik Islamabad

17 Rizwana Siddiqui Islamabad

18 Muhammad Iqbal Karachi

19 Asma Hyder Islamabad

20 Nazema Shaheen Islamabad

21 Noman Saeed Karachi

22 Asghar Ali Karachi

23 Kaleem Hyder Karachi

24 Dr. Eatzaz Ahmad Islamabad

25 Henri Lorie Islamabad

26 Kiran Yousaf Khan Islamabad

27 Rashid Ahmad Canada

28 Muhammad Azeem Qureshi Multan

29 Aman Ullah Islamabad

30 Saima Shafique Islamabad

31 Rashida Haq Islamabad

32 Dr. Talat Anwar Islamabad

33 Dr. G. M. Arif Islamabad

34 S Ayub Qutub Islamabad

35 Imran Sharif Chaudhry Multan

36 Karin Astrid Siegmann USA

37 Farooq Rashid Karachi

38 Dr. Faisal Bari Lahore

39 Syed Adnan H Shah Multan

40 Sabihuddin Butt Karachi

41 Qazi Masood Ahmad Karachi



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42 Lubna Hassan Islamabad

43 Syed Akhtar H Shah Islamabad

44 Mr. Mahmood Khalid Islamabad

45 Tariq Shah Islamabad

46 Mr. Sabir Karachi

47 Zehra Aftab Islamabad

48 Riaz Khan Islamabad

49 Dawood Mamoon Netherland

50 Shahid Akram Multan

51 Dr. Shabbar Jaffry UK

52 Ghazia Aslam Islamabad

53 Regina Dirner Islamabad

54 Dr Sarfraz Khan Qureshi Islamabad

55 Dr Pervaiz Hassan Islamabad

56 Anjum Khurshid USA

57 Musharraf R Cyan USA

58 Shahnawaz Malik Multan

59 Mahmood ul Hassan Multan

60 Shahzad Hussain Multan

61 Tony Venables UK

62 Imran Khan Lahore

63 Aitzaz Ahsan Lahore

64 Babar Ali Lahore

65 Salman Ghani Islamabad

66 Ali Cheema Lahore

67 Akmal Hussain Islamabad

68 Ms Attiya Javaid Islamabad

69 Dr. Abid Hameed Kharachi

70 Mr. Hammad Asharaf Karachi

71 Mr. Sabihuddin Karachi

72 Dr. Shahbaz Akmal Karachi

73 Qazi Masood Ahmad Karachi

74 Mr. Idrees Khawaja Islamabad

75 Dr. Musleh-ud Din Islamabad

76 Mr. Saqib Sherani Islamabad

77 Mr. Noor Pir Khan Peshawar

78 Dr. Seeme Malik Islamabad

79 Ms Naghmana Islamabad

80 Ms. Shahnaz Hameed Islamabad

81 Mr. Zeeeshan Anam Karachi

82 Dr. Raghuram Rajan USA

83 Mr. Sajawal Khan USA

84 Mr. Sujit Bhalla UK



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85 Dr. Omar Azfar USA

86 Dr. Adeel Malik UK

87 Mr. Arshad Khan Islamabad

88 Mr. Abdul Rashid Karachi

89 Mr. Sajawal Khan Islamabad

90 Mr. Kalbe Abbas Islamabad

91 Mr. Abdul Aleem Khan Karachi

92 Kalim Hyder Karachi

93 Mr. Jamshed Uppal USA

94 Mr. Tasneem Alam Islamabad

95 Syed Azhar Hussain Shah UK

96 Mr. Tariq Mahmood Islamabad

97 Dr. Ejaz Ghani Islamabad

98 Dr. Muslehud Din Islamabad

99 M. Zahid Siddique Karachi

100 Amir Mahmood Australia

101 Dr. Naved Ahmad Karachi

102 Dr. Adeel Ghayur Rawalpindi

103 Dr M Azam Chaudhry Islamabad

104 Tariq Majeed Islamabad

105 Wasim Shahid Malik Islamabad

106 M Sharif Islamabad

107 Dr. Usman Mustafa Islamabad

108 Umar Farooq Islamabad

109 Dr. Khair uz Zaman DI Khan

110 Hilton Root USA

111 Foqia Sadiq Khan Islamabad

112 Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh Islamabad

113 Dr. A. R. Kemal Islamabad

114 Donya Aziz Islamabad

115 Danyal Aziz Islamabad



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