RASTA – PIDE & Planning Commission Competitive Research Grants

Competitive Grants Programme for Policy-oriented Research

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives

CGP

Saeed ul Riaz 

MBA (Finance) Al-Khair University, Peshawar | MA (Economics) University of Peshawar Saeed ul Riaz has worked with local and international development sector institutions. His area of specialization includes admin support, grant management, budgeting and accounts preparation. He has served in the USAID Pakistan mission in the financial management office. He also worked as Program Manager […]

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Nazam Maqbool

M.Phil. (Economics), Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad | M.A. (Economics), University of the Punjab, Lahore | Post Graduate Diploma (Information Technology), AIOU, Islamabad Nazam Maqbool is the Social Scientist/Project Manager at RASTA CGP – an initiative of the Planning Commission of Pakistan and PIDE. He worked as the Senior Research Fellow at the Lahore University of Management

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Adeel Malik

DPhil (Economics), University of Oxford, UK Adeel Malik is a development macroeconomist with a strong multi-disciplinary orientation. His research engages with questions of long-run development, political economy and economic history, with a special focus on Muslim societies. His work combines quantitative and qualitative research methods. Apart from engaging with cross-country empirics on development, he is

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Zahid Asghar

PhD (Economics), Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad | MSc (Statistics) Zahid Asghar is the Director of School of Economics at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He served as senior faculty at the National Institute of Banking and Finance, State Bank of Pakistan, Islamabad, and remained Chairman, Department of Statistics at QAU. His areas of research

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Izzah Aftab

PhD (Economics), The New School, New York City, USA | MA (Economics), The New School New York City, USA | MS (Public Policy), Beaconhouse National University Izza Aftab is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Beaconhouse National University (BNU) Lahore. She was the founding Chairperson of the Economics Department at ITU Lahore. She was also

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Murtaza Haider

PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Toronto, Canada | MASc (Civil Engineering) University of Toronto, Canada Dr. Murtaza Haider is the Executive Director of the Cities Institute, Radhe Krishna Gupta Executive Chair in Cities and Communities, and Professor at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Real Estate Markets: An

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Faheem Jehangir Khan

PhD (Public Policy), University of Bristol, UK | MSc (Development Policy), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany | BSc Hons (Ag. Economics), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Dr. Faheem Jehangir Khan is Dean (Policy), and Project Director of the RASTA Program at PIDE. He is a public policy expert with over 20 years of experience in policy research, training,

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Abdul Salam Lodhi

PhD (Economics) Bonn Graduate School of Development Economics, University of Bonn, Germany Abdul Salam Lodhi is a professor of Economics at BUITEMS. Presently he is working as Director University College of Zhob, BUITEMS, earlier to that he also served as Dean Faculty of Management Sciences and Chairman Department of Economics, from September 2014 to May

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Mohsin Mushtaq Chandna

Masters of Public Policy, University of Chicago, USA | Masters in Business Administration, Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi Mohsin Mushtaq Chandna is an officer of Pakistan Administrator Service with blend of experience in Government service as well as Development Sector. He has worked for the Government of Pakistan for over 30 years while he

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Ather Maqsood Ahmed

Ph.D. (Economics) The Johns Hopkins University, USA. | MA (Economics) University of Waterloo, Canada | M.Sc. (Economics) Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Ather Maqsood Ahmed is one of Pakistan’s eminent economists. He is the founder of renowned Department of Economics at NUST. Prior to joining NUST, Professor Ahmed testified before the Standing Committees of Senate of Pakistan

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