PIDE Bi-Monthly Round Up (Discourse 2023-03)

Working Papers

• Is the Decision to Obtain Higher Education in Pakistan Worth Repaying? New Evidence from Returns on Education for Paid-Employees – Ghulam Mustafa
• The Impact of Railway Development on Economic Growth through CPEC – Abida Naurin and Shahbaz Gul

Knowledge Briefs and Policy Viewpoints

• What’s Your Degree Worth? Return to Education, Employability, and Upskilling Workforce in Pakistan – Saman Nazir and Hafsa Hina
• Disaggregating the Graduate Unemployment in Pakistan – Henna Ahsan and Muhammad Jehangir Khan
• What are the Factors Making Pakistan’s Exports Stagnant? Insight from Literature Review – Ghulam Mustafa and Saqib Hussain

BASICS

• A Reflection on Spiritual Beliefs – Durre Nayab

Events/Webinars

• Gilgit Baltistan Beyond Mountains: Exploring the Vision for Tomorrow (Conference)
• Pakistan’s First Ever Think Tanks Moot: Collective Thinking, Collective Action
• Attracting Investment through Better Legal/Regulatory Framework – Charles Schneider
• EconFest Lahore: Pakistan’s First Ever Economics Festival
• Seaports of Pakistan and Regional Connectivity
• The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments, and Warps our Economies
• Austerity in the Context of a Developing Country
• The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World during the Free-Market Era
• Disorder in the 21^st Century: The Systematic Problem of Energy
• NADRA and Digital Pakistan
• Recent Economic Developments: Outlooks and Risks
• Impact of Climate Change: On Rainfall Patterns and Water Resilience
• Soil Health and Food Security in Pakistan
• Training Superhero Leaders
• Islamabad’s Urban and Architectural Genesis
• Future of Public Education in Pakistan