PIDE Bi-Monthly Round-Up (Discourse Vol.1 Issue 3)

WORKING PAPERS

• Quetta Cafes: An Indigenous Tea Cafes Chain in Twins Cities
• Parental Tobacco Smoking and Child Malnutrition
• Inflation in Pakistan: High -Frequency Estimation and Forecasting

RESEARCH REPORTS/MONOGRAPHS

• PIDE Commentary on the 23rth IMF Program
• Parental Smoking and Child Health
• Effectiveness of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority

KNOWLEDGE BRIEFS

• Quetta Cafes: An Indigenous Tea Cafes Chain in Twins Cities
• Is a multilateral full trade liberalization policy effective in Pakistan?
• Does Incentive Mechanism Influence the Research Productivity of Public Sector University Teaching Faculty in  Pakistan? A Comparison between Tenure Track System (TTS) and Basic Pay Scale (BPS)
• Impact of Climate Change on Water in Pakistan
• Foreign Aid Effectiveness: The Relatinship Between Aid Inflows and Economic Growth
• Gas Crisis in Pakistan: A Review of Accountability Systems: Learning from Best Practices

BASICS (BELIEFS, ATTITUDES, SOCIAL CAPITAL, INSTITUTIONS, COMMUNITY  AND SELF)

• Who Do We Think We Are: The Question of Identity!
• Understanding Social Capital
• About the PIDE-BASICS Survey

WEBINARS

• Economics for the 21st Century: Paul Ormerod Post Flood Rehabilitation & Development Rethink: by Simi Sadaf Kamal, Hassan Abbas Shah, and Syed Mahmood Nawaz Shah
• Master Planning and People’s Lives: by Saboohi Sarshar, Nasir Javed, Naveed ul Haq, and Nadeem Khurshid
• Beyond Winning: A Discussion on State of Sports Industry ini Pakistan: by Nasrullah Rana, Shah Muhammad Shan, and Ameer Ali Abro
• Mega Solar Project and Amendment in NEPRA Distributed Generation and Net-Metering Regulation, 2015: by Tahir Basharat Cheema, Waqas Bin Najib, Moin M. Fuda, and Syed Feisal Ali
• Governance of Islam in Pakistan – An Institutional Study of the Council of Islamic Ideology: by Sarah Holz
• The Industrial Civilization – How the Rest Can Reach Up With the West: Syed Sardar Ali
• Using Behavioral Economics for Behavioral Change: Dan Ariely
• Freelancing in Pakistan: Haroon Raja, Ibrahim Amin, and Dua Sukhera
• Current Urban Paradigm of Pakistan High Rise and Town Planning: Ghulam Sarwar Sindhu and Omer Masud
• Aid, Politics and the War of Narratives in the US-Pakistan Relations: Hussain Nadim

EVENTS

• Seminar with the World Bank Global Director, Marcello Estevao
• Leading Through the Dangers of Change: Hamza Haroon
• PIDE RASTA Documentary Film Screening at Islamabad Club
• Business Enabling Environment Index, in association with USAID Small & Medium Enterprise Activity
• Memorandum of Understanding Between PIDE and the Pakistan Metrological Department (PMD)
• KP Data Portal and Evidence-Based Planning: Naeem uz Zafar, Taimur Khan, Nazish Afraz, and Shujaat Farooq
• J.P. Morgan’s Global Research Team Visits PIDE
• Seminar by the Productivity Commission