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Our Research

The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) is a premier policy driven research institution with a distinguished 69 years history of advancing academic discourse and providing strategic solutions to Pakistan’s socio-economic challenges. PIDE remains committed to a revitalized spirit of intellectual rigor and institutional innovation through evidence-based research and policy advisory services to government, leveraging both institutional research priorities and responsive engagement with government departments and ministries.

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.

Dean Research

Dr. Shujaat Farooq

Research Centers

Eight research centers focusing research on contemporary economic issues; export-led growth, institutional reforms, social development, infrastructure, market economy, deregulation & evidence-driven policy. PIDE research is synergetic, theoretical & applied that impacts policy outcomes & outputs.

Our Researchers

Our researchers are trained in Economics, Public Policy, Development Studies, Demography & Anthropology. This academic diversity reflects in topicality & criticality, wherein researchers not only conduct & publish research but also disseminate results in Op-eds, policy engagements & conferences.

Research Products

You will find research on public policy, deregulation of markets, sludge, export-led economy, export diversification, sectoral growth &social development (education, health & gender). Our research and policy briefs map research on all the critical topics.

Global Connections

Over the last 69 years, PIDE has engaged with the government sector, private sector, local and international universities & think tanks marking a global footprint typified by concrete policy actions, research collaborations, and cross-fertilisation of knowledge.

SPOTLIGHT

Policy Viewpoint

The Middle East Crisis Impact on Pakistan’s Trade

The ongoing confrontation between the US-Israel and Iran in the Mideast has evolved from a regional political dispute into a global economic crisis....

March 26, 2026

Policy Viewpoint

Managing Oil Shocks: Pakistan’s Fiscal Risks and Policy Choices

The current oil price shock, emerged because of Israel-US-Iran war and its spread over the Gulf region, can have serious consequences on the fiscal consolidation efforts of the Government of Pakistan...

March 25, 2026

Policy and Research

COP AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Pakistan’s Road to Resilience

The discourse on COP AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Pakistan’s Road to Resilienceis available

January 09, 2026

Knowledge Brief

Anthropology in or of Development? On Tracing Pragmatic Relevance of Anthropology in Development Studies

Within Development Studies, the relationship between Anthropology and Development, has been documented as uneven, inconsistent....

March 30, 2026

Policy Viewpoint

The Middle East Conflict and Its Implications for Pakistani Migrant Workers

Pakistan’s economic stability is significantly linked with the Middle East, a region that hosts 0.7-0.8 million new entrants from Pakistan each year and contribute 54% in country’s total remittances...

March 19, 2026