Over seven decades, PIDE’s research, spanning critical areas such as administrative “sludge,” government footprint, regulatory reform, and elite capture, has successfully translated into actionable policy implementations. Currently, the Institute operates through eight specialized Research Centers focused on high-impact domains, including export-led growth, digital transformation, mobilizing endogenous resources, human capital development, and structural reforms. The aim of PIDE’s current research centers is to build policy-praxis articulation, ministerial and sectoral research collaborations, policy dialogue, empirical footprint and informed discourse within the domains of economy, development, governance and policy.