Director's Articles & Speeches

- Managing Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy under uncertainty, Key note address to the participants of the Central Bank course organized by SECAN and Bank of Japan at Manila, July 30, 2012

- Strategic Location and the Economy, The News, July 23, 2012

- Positioning Capital markets for Emerging companies, Pakistan IPO Summit , Karachi, July 14,2012

- Global Financial Crisis, Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance Seminar on Corporate Governance Karachi, July 12, 2102

- New Fiscal Federalism, The News, June 25, 2012

- Managing India-Pakistan India Trade Relations, East Asia Forum, June 6, 2012

- Revisiting Regulatory Regime for the Financial Industry, Distinguished Lecture delivered at Asian Institute of Finance, KL, Malaysia, May 23,
2012

- Adapting Public Sector Services to Local Delivery, Lahore School of Economics Annual Conference, Lahore, May 17, 2012

- Interview with Business Line, India

- The Budget Arithmetic, The News, May 14, 2012

- Managing India-Pakistan Trade Relations, Woodrow Wilson Center conference, Washington DC April 23, 2012

- Business, Society, Science and Technology, Keynote address at the International Conference on Management, UMT, Lahore, March 28,
2012

- Flawed Privatization Approach, The News, March 19, 2012

- Judicial Reforms and Economic Growth, Express-Tribune, March 17, 2012

- Building Ties without Aid, The News Feb 14, 2012

- Agriculture Productivity and Economic Development, Key note address at DAWN Agri Pak Conference held at Karachi on Feb 11, 2012

- Agriculture Sector: Issues and Prospects, Dawn Feb 10, 2012

- Pakistan’s Governance Deficit, Seminar on Pakistan: Charting a course for Revival organized by the Friends of Europe at Brussels on Jan
26, 2012

- Reordering Economic Relations with the US, Stanford US-Pakistan Economic Dialogue held at Palo Alto on Jan 22-24, 2012

- Pakistan a Tumultuous Economy, East Asian Forum, ANU Canberra, Jan 22, 2012

- Redefining Governance, Paper read at the SDPI Fourteenth Annual Conference held at Islamabad on Dec 13, 2011

- Pakistan in 2011, East Asia Forum Quarterly, Australian National University, Jan 2012

- The Way Out, The News Jan 9, 2012

- Courting disaster for Votes, The News Dec 12, 2011

- Parliament’s role in Economic Governance, Express Tribune Dec 5, 2011

- Policy-Performance Gap, DAWN Nov 23, 2011

- Trade Recipe for India, The News Nov 14, 2011

- The Role of Central Banks in Driving the Development Agenda, A paper presented at the 2nd OIC Experts Workshop organized by bank
Negara Malaysia at Kulalampur Nov 13-14, 2011

- Consequences of elitism, DAWN Nov 13, 2011

- An Economic Mirage, The News Oct 17, 2011

- Interview with Smart Savings DAWN Oct 7. 2011

- Interview with Business Standard Oct 16, 2011

- Financial Sector Regulation in Pakistan, State Bank of Pakistan research Bulletin Vol 7 no.1 2011-14, 2011

- Economic Integration in South Asia, A paper presented at South Asia Forum held at New Delhi on Sept 8, 2011

- Subsidising the Rich, The News Sept 19, 2011

- Carnegie Mellon University Adelaide Convocation address August 16, 2011

- Asia and Global Competitiveness, East Asia Forum Quarterly Australian National University July-Sept 2011

- The Role of Contractual Savings in Pakistan’s Economy, Pakistan Insurance and Takaful Conference held at Karachi on Sept 6, 2011

- Civil Service Reform in Pakistan, International Conference on Growth, Planning Commission, Islamabad July 13,2011

- Delineating Roles within the Sector, Key note address at Microfinance Network Roundtable held at Islamabad on July 8, 2011

- Models of Local Democracy within a Federal System, Commonwealth Local Government Forum held at Karachi on July 6, 2011

- Pakistan’s Economy at 64, The News, Aug 15, 2011

- The Global Fallout, DAWN, August 9, 2011

- Maximizing Benefits for Devolution, The News, July 25, 2011

- Governance Initiatives, Pakistan Today, July 20, 2011

- Preparing for the Future, The News, July 4, 2011

- Shared Growth, The Herald Karachi, July 2011 issue

- Political Economy of Budget, The News, June 13, 2011

- Budget 2011/12: Analysis, The Express Tribune, June 5, 2011

- Reforming public sector enterprises, DAWN, June 2, 2011

- US Assistance: Differing Perceptions, The Express Tribune, May 19, 2011

- Enabling Environment for Entrepreneurship, Opening remarks at the INSEAD Alumni Association Conference at Karachi, May 7, 2011

- Economic Growth and Intellectual Property, Address at the World Intellectual Property Day Islamabad April 26, 2011

- Bridging the Governance Deficit, The Express Tribune April 2 and 3, 2011

- "Prospects and Challenges for increasing India-Pakistan Trade", The News, March 24 and 25, 2011

- Pakistan’s Economy Post-Flood, Criterion Quarterly Jan-March 2011

- Long term Economic Direction and Consistency of Economic Policies, Lecture delivered at Applied Economics Research Centre Karachi
March1, 2011

- 2009 Pay and Commission report, Lecture delivered at National Management College, Lahore Feb 25, 2011

- Good Governance for Dummies, NEWSWEEK Feb 21, 2011

- Disconnects and Mismatches, DAWN Feb 6, 2011

- Drivers of Globalization, Paper presented at the International Conference on Business Education held at New Delhi Feb 5-6, 2011

- The Inadequacy of our Economic Agenda, The Express Tribune, January 25, 2011

- Pakistan’s Growth Experience 1947-2007, Business Review July-December 2010

- Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, Key note address at MIT Enterprise Forum held at Karachi on Dec 11, 2010

- Pakistan's Economy and the Impact of Flood, The World in 2011 Jang Group/ The Economist

- Acumen Fund Pakistan, Key note address delivered at the Annual Community Gathering of Acumen Fund held at Karachi on Dec 4, 2010

- East and Central Europe: The Impact of 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis, University of Karachi on November 24-25, 2010

- Managing Government-Business relation in Pakistan, Management Association of Pakistan, Karachi Nov 23, 2010

- Macroeconomic Reforms in Developing countries and Global Financial crisis, 50th anniversary celebrations of Center for Development
Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, USA Oct 13, 2010

- Institutions for Market Governance and Doing Business, Private Sector Task force, Islamabad Oct 29, 2010

- Providing a voice to G20 excluded nations", October 27th, 2010, East Asia Forum Quarterly

- Economic stability and Growth, Command and Staff college, Quetta Oct 21, 2010

- Pakistan’s Economic challenges and the present Economic framework, National Defence University, Islamabad Oct 18, 2010

- Tough Economic Decisions, DAWN Oct 4, 2010

- Economic challenges for Post flood Economy, Jinnah Institute Conference, Islamabad Sept 23, 2010

- Floods: the next phase, DAWN Sept 8, 2010

- Indo Pak economies compared, South Asia magazine August 2010

- Pakistan's Experience with the IMF 2000-2004 Business Review Jan-June 2010

- Pakistan's Economy 1999/2000- 2007/2008 An Objective appraisal Business Review Jan-June 2009

- The Economics of Fundamentalism Notebook 2010

- Banking and Monetary policy in 2010, Pakistan in 2010, Jang Group and The Economist Jan 2010

- Trade and Human Development, Keynote address at the Launching ceremony of Human development in South Asia Report 2009, Lahore,
June 29, 2010

- Islam and the Future of Economics, Keynote address at the Conference on Islamic banking and Finance, Karachi, June 26,2010

- Business in new environment, Keynote address at the CFO Conference organized by the ICAP, Karachi, March 11

- Pakistan’s Economic Prospects – Challenges and Opportunities

- Reviewing Structural Reforms in India and Pakistan

- Impact of the Crisis on Poverty and Access to Finance in Developing countries , KFW Financial sector symposium , Berlin Dec 2-4, 2009

- Securing Development in the context of weak and Fragile states, Opening remarks at the Learning Event jointly organized by CIDA and
Aga Khan Foundation, Canada, Ottawa, June 19, 2009

- The Role of Politics in Pakistan's Economy

- Economic cost of instability

- Public entities & political control

- Governance Reforms in Education

- Lessons from Financial Crises

- The Indian Dream (DAWN, Jul 12, 2009)

- A Confused Federalism

- The Economics of Fundamentalism

- Pakistan’s Economy 1999/2000 – 2007/2008 - An Objective Appraisal

- Pakistan-US Economic Ties

- Beyond the IMF

- Upgrading Business Education (DAWN, Aug 11, 2008)

- Quality Issues in Management Education

- Public Policy & Social Sciences

- Micro-Economic Foundations of Economic Policy - Performance in Pakistan

- From Global Financial Meltdown to Global Economic Crisis

- Economic Governance in Pakistan

- Financial Reform and Economic Integration

- Technology and Poverty Reduction in South Asia

- Recent Privatizations in Pakistan and their Impact

- Economic Policies under Shoaib

- Economy of Pakistan – Challenges and Prospects

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