Pakistan has proposed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) establish a multilateral framework on investment facilitation. Seventy other countries have supported the initiative, which will be considered at the next WTO ministerial conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2020. In preparation, a high-level forum was held in Astana on 28 September 2018. Pakistan’s participant at the forum was our Graduate Institute’s Visiting Professor, Khalil Hamdani.
On 10th December 2025, the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lahore School of Economics, organized a seminar titled “A Fifteen-Year Journey Exploring Lahore’s Heritage” by Syed Faizan Abbas Naqvi, popularly known as Lahore ka Khojji, as part of the Economic History Society. The session was presided over by Dr. Rashid Amjad, Director GIDS and Patron of […]
Dr. Rashid Amjad, Professor of Economics and Director, GIDS, Lahore School of Economics addresses the Dawn Summit on Population on “Why Pakistan has not reaped the Demographic Dividend: lessons from countries in the region which have done so’” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SH_M_KM-79iKBYHRH0YKeEDnZUuIFFzu/view?usp=drive_link
