Team Details: HAFIZ PASHA Professor Emeritus Beaconhouse National University, Lahore (PI) HAFSA TANVEER Head of Department, Department of Economics, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore (Co PI) FATIMA MALIK Assistant Professor Beaconhouse National University, Lahore (Co PI) Theme/Relevant Ministry: TAXATION/ FISCAL MANAGEMENT: Federal Board of Revenue of Pakistan Project Brief: The tax project would present a detailed […]
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PhD (Business Administration and Management) University of Stirling, UK Sobia Khurram is serving as a Professor of Management Sciences at the University of Punjab in Lahore. Her research interests include areas of tax administration reforms with special focus on autonomy and accountability and anti-corruption reforms. She teaches BS, Masters, MPhil and PhD students in Management,
PhD (Economics), University of Karachi, Karachi Nooreen Mujahid is currently serving as the Director of the Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC). Earlier, she served as Chairperson of the Department of Economics, University of Karachi and an Additional Directing Staff at the National Institute of Management (NIM) Karachi (deputation). Her interests are Labor Economics, Gender and
Theme/Relevant Ministry: DEAD CAPITAL Pakistan Railways; M/o Commerce; City Administration Project Brief: Pakistan Railways has a lot of dead capital, this study intends to highlight that by identifying the land holdings of Pakistan Railway in major cities. It will also look in-depth into the railway’s re-development evidence from the world. In a purely local context,
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Theme/Relevant Ministry: DEAD CAPITAL FBR; M/o Finance Project Brief: This case study aims to analyze the economic potential of the under-utilized assets at the regional offices of the Allama Iqbal Open University. As the operational and academic activities of the AIOU are now being digitalized, the assets (land, buildings, staff, IT labs etc.) deployed in
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Theme/Relevant Ministry: INDUSTY/ COMMERCE: M/o Industries and Production; M/o Commerce and Textile Industry; MOF Project Brief: This study explores a spatial phenomenon that routinely plays out in large Pakistani cities – unanticipated, spontaneously-formed bazaar-based industrial clusters. These specialized urban districts house economic activities of various kinds but are mainly centered upon manufacturing units of light industrial
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Theme/Relevant Ministry: INDUSTRY M/o Commerce; M/o IT; HEC; M/o PD&SI Project Brief: The incubations usually have an impact on the economic growth of a country by producing more job opportunities and showcasing solutions for socio-economic issues by means of innovations, and most importantly supporting economy in term trade deficit and local needs. However, it
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Theme/Relevant Ministry: URBAN DEVELOPMENT: M/o Commerce and Textile Industry; City/ District Administration Project Brief: Pakistan has experienced massive growth in urbanisation since its inception in 1947. Urbanisation in Pakistan is quite different from the one that occurred in the developed world as an outcome of industrialization, thus, making supplying side of housing very much dependent
Theme/Relevant Ministry: CAREER COUNCILING M/o Education; Education Departments; M/o HRD Project Brief: The current academic debate focuses on congruence between institutes (knowledge economy) and careers (economy) for developing a prosperous country. In this regard, Career Education – an integrated approach – is found to be a panacea to major educational and vocational problems across the
Theme/Relevant Ministry: EMPLOYMENT M/o HRD, M/o Education Project Brief: Our project explores and analyzes the nature, causes and consequences of unemployment in Balochistan. Youth unemployment is a key concern for Pakistan—given its budding young population, lack of coherent public policy measures, and neglect of successive provincial and federal governments in tackling the issues faced by
