Dr. Philip Wood, professor at Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Agha Khan University, United Kingdom (AKU-ISMC), visited the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) on November 7, 2019. After a meeting with the Director of GIDS he addressed the faculty, staff and students. He presented his study on “Marriage and Social Boundaries among British Pakistanis” […]
THE prime minister has praised his economic team for an ‘economic turnaround’ that comprises declines in the current account and fiscal deficits and increases in FDI and remittances. All these are misleading indicators but one is especially egregious and contradictory. Why is the increase in remittances considered part of the economic turnaround and something that governments consider[…]
Professor David C. Engerman visited GIDS on the 14th of May 2019 to meet with Dr. Rashid Amjad and discuss his upcoming research project on the history of economic thought in the South and the life and works of Dr. Mahbub ul Haq, one of the four eminent economists from the South that he will cover in[…]