Economy, Welfare, and Reforms in Pakistan. Essays in Honour of Dr Ishrat Husain

Vaqar Ahmed,Maaz Javed

Dr Vaqar Ahmed is an economist and former civil servant and currently Joint Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). Earlier, he served UNDP, and has undertaken assignments with the Asian Development Bank, World Bank Group, and Ministries of Finance, Planning and Commerce
in Pakistan. He has also served on various boards and committees including at the Fauji Foundation, Pakistans Planning Commission, provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, and Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. He has served as a visiting faculty member and researcher at
University of Laval in Canada, University of Le Havre in France, National University of Ireland, Pakistans Quaid-e-Azam University and National School of Public Policy. He was the recipient of the 2015 Young Leaders Fellowship award by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His political economy
analysis appears regularly in Arab News.

Maaz Javed is a researcher with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). His research interests lie in the area of trade and development economics. He has been involved in several research projects in areas such as regional trade integration, Afghanistan-Pakistan transit trade, foreign
direct investment, and most recently on digital trade integration and South-South Cooperation. During his career he has collaborated with esteemed development organisations including Canadas International Development Research Centre, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific, and United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation.

Foreword, Tariq Banuri
Introduction
In Honour of Dr Ishrat Husain
Introduction
bPART IMACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
1. Macroeconomic Policy and Management amid Covid-19
2. Debt Management in Pakistan: Challenges and Prospects for Future
3. Monetary Policy Reforms in Pakistan
4. Foreign Investment Climate in Pakistan
5. The Role and Importance of Institutions in Development
6. Role of Public Sector Development Programme in Economic Development
bPART IISTATE OF SUB-NATIONAL ECONOMY
7. Envisioning Inclusive Growth in Punjab
8. Towards Shared Growth: Perspectives from Sindh
9. Envisioning Inclusive Growth in Balochistan
10. Envisioning Development in Gilgit-Baltistan
bPART III FINANCIAL MARKET: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
11. The Capital Markets of Pakistan
12. Islamic Banking and Finance in Pakistan
bPART IVSOCIOECONOMIC CHALLENGES IN PAKISTAN
13. Womens Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion in Pakistan
14. The State of Entrepreneurship in Pakistan
bPART VREGIONAL INTEGRATION
15. Pakistans Trade with Central Asia
16. Leveraging CPEC for Industrial Development
17. Regional Trade Integration
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index