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Programme Day 1
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
INAUGURAL SESSION |
Crystal Ball Room |
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Chairperson: |
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Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani
Prime Minister of Pakistan |
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Recitation from the Holy Quran: |
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Qari Allah Nawaz |
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Welcome Remarks and Secretary’s Report: |
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G. M. Arif
Secretary, PSDE |
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President's Address: |
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Economic Sustainability in a Globalised World.
Rashid Amjad
President, PSDE
Vice-Chancellor, PIDE |
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Keynote Address: |
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Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali
Deputy Chairman
The Planning Commission, and Chancellor, PIDE |
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Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest |
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| 12:30 p.m. – 01:30 p.m. |
| LUNCH |
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| 01:30 p.m. – 03:00 p.m. |
| INVITED LECTURE - I: THE IQBAL MEMORIAL LECTURE |
Crystal Ball Room - A |
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Chairperson: |
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Hina Rabbani Khar
Minister of State for Economic Affairs
Government of Pakistan
Islamabad.
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Co-Chairperson: |
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Zafar Altaf
Chairman
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Islamabad. |
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Topic: |
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Agricultural Development and Food Security. |
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Speaker: |
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John W. Mellor
President
John Mellor Associates, Inc., USA. |
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Discussants: |
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Ijaz Nabi
Dean and Professor
LUMS, Lahore.
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M. E. Tusneem
Member, Food and Agriculture
The Planning Commission
Islamabad. |
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General Discussion
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| 03:00 p.m. – 04:30 p.m. |
FIRST TECHNICAL SESSION |
Crystal Ball Room - A |
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Chairperson: |
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Yu Yongding
Director and Senior Fellow,
Institute of World Economics and Politics, CASS,
Beijing, China |
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Theme: |
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Energy Issues |
| 3. |
Presentations: |
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Crude Oil Price, Monetary Policy and Output: Case of Pakistan
Afia Malik
PIDE, Islamabad. |
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Energy Demand in Pakistan: A Disaggregate Analysis
Muhammad Arshad Khan and Usman Ahmed
PIDE, Islamabad. |
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Residential Demand for Electricity in Pakistan
Muhammad Salman Tariq, Muhammad Nasir,and Ankasha Arif
PIDE, Islamabad. |
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Discussant: |
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Noor Fatima
Consumer Affairs Division, NEPRA |
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General Discussion
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Crystal Ball Room - B |
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Chairperson: |
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Waqar Masood Khan
Secretary,
Textile Industry Division,
Government of Pakistan, Islamabad. |
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Theme: |
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Sustainable Economic Growth |
| 3. |
Presentations: |
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Economic Growth and Its Determinants in Pakistan
Muhammad Shehbaz, Khalil Ahmed, and A.R. Chaudhry
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Output Gap and its Determinants: Evidence from Pakistan
Saadia Sherbaz, Faiza Azhar Khan, and Naheed Zia Khan
Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Rawalpindi. |
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The Long Term Impact of the Health on Economic Growth in Pakistan
Naeem Akram, Ihtsham ul Haq Padda, and Muhammad Khan
Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology Islamabad. |
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Macroeconomic Factors and Equity Prices: An empirical investigation by using ARDL Approach
Arshad Hasan and Zafar M. Nasir
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, and
PIDE, Islamabad. |
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Discussant: |
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Waseem Shahid Malik
PIDE, Islamabad |
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General Discussion
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Noor Mahal |
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Chairperson: |
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Sarfaraz Khan Qureshi
Chief Executive,
Innovative Development Strategies,
Islamabad. |
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Theme: |
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Agricultural Development |
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Presentations: |
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Dynamic Modeling of Private Investment in Agriculture Sector of Pakistan
Imtiaz Ahmed and Abdul Qayyum
The Planning Commission, Islamabad, and PIDE, Islamabad.
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Edible Oil Deficit and its Impact on Food Expenditure in Pakistan
Muhammad Ali, Manzoor Hussain Memon, and Syed Arifullah
Applied Economics Research Institute, Karachi. |
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Impact of WTO’s Trade Liberalization on selected Food Crops in Pakistan
Shahzad Sharif, M. Siddique Javed, and Azhar Abbas
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. |
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Agricultural Development in EU: Drivers, Challenges, and Perspectives
Laura Giurca Vasilescu
University of Craiova, Romania. |
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Discussant: |
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Abdul Salam
Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and
Technology, Islamabad.
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General Discussion
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| 04:30 p.m. – 04:45 p.m. |
| TEA |
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| 04:45 p.m. – 06:15 p.m. |
| PANEL DISCUSSION - I: GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS |
Crystal Ball Room - A |
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Chairperson: |
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Ishrat Husain
Director
Institute of Business Administration
Karachi. |
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Panelists: |
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Hamza Ali Malik
Director, Monetary Policy Department
State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi.
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2. |
Sakib Sherani
Chief Economist
Royal Bank of Scotland
Islamabad. |
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3. |
Zafar Iqbal
Senior Economist
Islamic Development Bank
Jeddah. |
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4. |
Abdul Qayyum
Associate Professor/Registrar
PIDE
Islamabad. |
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General Discussion
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