Sub-Themes

Ensuring Effective Delivery and Quality in Basic Education and Health Services
State of basic education; Formal/Informal education; public versus private schooling system; Madrasa reforms; Emphasising girls’ education; Basic health services; Mother and child health care; Public versus private health care services; Vertical and horizontal health services; Epidemiological transition.

Overcoming Regional Disparities
Distribution of resources among provinces/urban and rural; Poverty and income distribution; Decentralization and its impact at the local level to manage the existing disparities.

Making the Pakistani Firm Internationally Competitive
Textile and the WTO; Trade and monetary policy; Trade and cities; Issues related to Export commodities, value addition and compliance; Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in manufacturing and services sector; Identifying absolute and comparative advantages; Skill requirement of firms.

Increasing Productivity and Profitability in Agriculture
Mechanization in agriculture sector; Using modern farming techniques; Role of research and extension in agricultural growth; Food Security; Animal husbandry; Overcoming wheat and sugar crisis; Agriculture and the WTO; Water resource management.

Higher Education and Technology: Developing a Knowledge Driven Economy
Higher education and its role in development; public versus private investment in higher education; Role of IT in economic growth; developing linkages between higher education and industry; Innovation and Development.