PIDE Focus Vol. 2, No. 2, April-June 2007

The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) is an autonomous research institute, established in 1957. It conducts theoretical and empirical research in economics and related social sciences. Since the year 2000, PIDE has also been admitting students to its PhD Programme in Economics. It is now a federally chartered degree-awarding institute and has recently launched six new degree programmes, including the MSc in Economics, MSc in Econometrics and MSc in Statistics, MSc in Population Studies, MBA, MPhil in Economics, and PhD in Economics.