Thursday December 13th, 2012
Inaugural Session
Chairpersons:
Nadeem ul Haque, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of Pakistan and Chairman, PSSP National Advisory Committee
Presentations:
- Overview of the PSSP and Discussion of Major Imperatives for Economic Research
Sohail J. Malik, Chairman, Innovative Development Strategies (Pvt) Ltd. and Senior Advisor, PSSP - Vision of the Road Ahead
Steve Davies, Chief of Party, PSSP
Powerpoint - Support for Promoting Growth and Reducing Poverty in Pakistan
Rodger Garner, Deputy Mission Director, USAID Pakistan - Emerging Policy Issues in Pakistan
Nadeem ul Haque, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Session I: Aspirations
Moderator: Paul Dorosh, Division Director, IFPRI
Co-Moderator: Nuzhat Ahmed, Director, Applied Economic Research Center (AERC)
- Aspirations in Rural Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis
Katrina Kosec and Madeeha Hameed, IFPRI
Powerpoint - Population Mobility and Monsoon Anomalies in Pakistan
Valerie Mueller and Katrina Kosec, IFPRI
Powerpoint
Session II: Rural Household Welfare
Moderator: Abdul Basit Khan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of National Food Security and Research
Co-Moderator: Randy Chester, Deputy Office Chief Agriculture, USAID
- Pakistan Rural Household Survey: Overview and Highlights
Hina Nazli, PSSP
Powerpoint - Consumer Price Movements: Implications for Welfare
Sohail J. Malik, Innovative Development Strategies (Pvt) Ltd.
Powerpoint
Session III: Roles of Public and Private Investment in Agricultural Research in Pakistan
Moderator: Iftikhar Ahmad, Chairman, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Co-Moderator: Michael Wyzan, Agricultural Economics Officer, USAID
- Recent Developments in Agricultural Research in Pakistan – ASTI
Muhammad Sharif, Director General, NARC - Video Presentations from the November 27th Meeting at PARC
- Recent Trends in Private-Sector R&D in Pakistan
Anwar Naseem, McGill University
Friday December 14th, 2012
Session IV: Development Strategy
Moderator: Nadeem ul Haque, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Co-Moderator: Geoffrey Minott, Deputy Economic Growth and Agriculture, USAID
- Exchange Rate Misalignment in Pakistan and its General Equilibrium Distributional Implications
Wajiha Saeed, PSSP and Dario Debowicz, IFPRI
Powerpoint - Rural Urban Transformation in Pakistan: A Spatial Analysis of Urbanization and Market Access from 1965 - 2010
Ahmed Waqas, PSSP, Helina Tilahun, ESSP and Emily Schmidt, IFPRI
Powerpoint - Pakistan Wheat Procurement Policy Reform
Paul Dorosh, IFPRI
Powerpoint
Session V: Fiscal and Macro Economic Policy
Moderator: Rashid Aziz, Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank
Co-Moderator: Steve Davies, PSSP-IFPRI
- Economic Impact of Agriculture Income Tax on Pakistan
Shehryar Rashid, PSSP
Powerpoint - Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Electricity Subsidies: The Perspective of Pakistan
Haroon Sarwar, Planning Commission, Ghulam Samad and Naseem Akhtar PIDE
Powerpoint - Macro-economic Implications of Electricity Subsidies
Dario Debowicz, Paul Dorosh and Angga Pradesha, IFPRI
Powerpoint - A New Keynesian Model for the Analysis of Energy Shocks in Pakistan
Dario Debowicz and Alejandro Quijada, IFPRI
Powerpoint
Session VI: Water
Moderator: Mubarik Ali, CEO, Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB)
Co-Moderator: Arif Anwar, Senior Adviser and Director, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- Recommendations of the Water Taskforce
Steve Davies, PSSP
Powerpoint - Climate Change Impacts on Food and Water in Pakistan
Mohsin Iqbal, Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC) and Andrew Bell, IFPRI
Powerpoint (Iqbal) | Powerpoint (Bell) - Assessment of Impacts of Water Transfers to Urban-Industrial Sectors on Irrigation Outcomes in the Indus Basin
Ghazi Alam, National Engineering Services Pakistan (PVT) Limited
Powerpoint - Country-Wide Water-Economy Links: An Integrated Modeling Approach with Application to Pakistan
Sherman Robinson, IFPRI and Arthur Gueneau, IFPRI
Powerpoint
Session VII: Mainstreaming Research into Policy Reform
Chairperson: Nadeem ul Haque, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of Pakistan
Panelists:
- Sarfraz Qureshi, Former President, Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE) and Former Director, Pakistan Institute Development Economics (PIDE)
- Sohail J. Malik, Chairman, Innovative Development Strategies (Pvt) Ltd
- Michael Wyzan, Agricultural Economics Officer, USAID
- Abdul Salam, Former Chairman, Agriculture Prices Commission of Pakistan and Professor, Federal Urdu University, Islamabad