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Faheem Jehangir Khan

Chief (Policy) / Project Director, RASTA / Acting Director ORIC

About Me 

I am a public policy expert with 18+ years of experience in policy research and analysis, professional/ practitioners’ training, and teaching at the university level. Currently leading the RASTA programme – the largest economics and public policy research network in Pakistan – as the Project Director, I remained associated with the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), National School of Public Policy (NSPP), and worked with UNDP, GIZ, ILO, and numerous universities and training institutes across Pakistan.

Area of Interest

I have expertise in public sector management with special interest in public policy processes, policy formulation and implementation, and management/evaluation of public sector development projects. I also have keen research interest in foreign aid, city profiling, training & development, and network governance. I am a qualitative researcher who enjoys teaching research methods and use data visualization tools.

Area of specialization:
Public Policy Process, Network Governance, Public Sector Management, Foreign Aid, Qualitative Research Methods, Training & Development

Education:

PhD (Public Policy), School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK (2015)
MS/MPhil (Development Policy), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
BSc Hons (Ag Economics), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Contact Me 

0519248026

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Social Links 

Contribution to PIDE Research

Foreign Aid Donors And Consultants: Analyzing Pakistan’s Foreign Aid Inflows And Its Outcomes

April 2024

Not Elite Capture but Capture by Colonial-made Elite

April 2024

Media Coverage: ISLAAH – The Immediate Reform Agenda for Pakistan

April 2024

Amidst the what, how, when to privatize

April 2024
Author : Saba Anwar

Parliament – A house to serve the national interest?

April 2024

Polls & the environment

April 2024

Ineffective measures

April 2024
Author : Afia Malik

Agricultural Commodity Markets In Pakistan: Analysis Of Issues

April 2024

An Evaluation of Comparative Advantage of Domestically Produced Edible Oil Crops: Challenges and Oportunities

April 2024

RASTA Local Research, Local Solutions: Growth & Taxation, Volume VII

April 2024
Edited By : Nadeem Ul Haque, Faheem Jehangir Khan

RASTA Local Research, Local Solutions: Farm Productivity & Food Prices, Volume VIII

April 2024
Edited By : Nadeem Ul Haque, Faheem Jehangir Khan

RASTA Local Research, Local Solutions: Public Service Delivery, Volume IX

April 2024
Edited By : Nadeem Ul Haque, Faheem Jehangir Khan

RASTA Local Research, Local Solutions: Sugar Industry, Water Cooperation & Financial Inclusion, Volume X

April 2024
Edited By : Nadeem Ul Haque, Faheem Jehangir Khan

Newsletter: March 2024

April 2024

Rising energy prices: adverse impact on masses

April 2024
Author : Abdus Sattar

Transports and Logistics

April 2024

Utilization Challenges of Public Health Insurance Initiatives: Evidences from Sehat Sahulat Program (SSP) in Pakistan

April 2024

Immediate Reform Agenda: IMF & Beyond

April 2024
Author : PIDE

File Culture: A Crippling Affliction to the Real Estate Market

April 2024

Forestry’s Economic Contribution Is Beyond Just Wood

March 2024

Wood Demand And Supply In Pakistan

March 2024

Forest Based Tourism Services In Pakistan

March 2024

Forest’s Indirect Services For Watersheds: The Case Of Mangla Dam

March 2024

Towards Sustainable Range Resource Management In Pakistan

March 2024

Rethinking the seed industry in Pakistan

March 2024

Media Modernisation: News, Journalism, Infotainment

March 2024

State Control, Corporate Interests, and Media Independence in Pakistan – Raza Rumi

March 2024
Author : Raza Rumi

Restoring the Arbiter

March 2024

Reshaping Media in Pakistan

March 2024
Author : Matiullah Jan

The Precarious Path of Pakistan’s Media Landscape: Navigating Freedom, Regulation, and Sustainability

March 2024
Author : Marvi Sirmed

Walking the Tightrope of Journalism in Pakistan

March 2024
Author : Bismah Mughal

Concerns of Intelligentsia in Pakistan: Content Analysis of Newspapers

March 2024

Climate and Media: Reporting based on Conflict theory or Structural Functionalism

March 2024
Author : Khalid Waleed

Media Manipulation: Terrorism, Corruption, and the Shifting Sands of Perception

March 2024

The Cult of Digital Media

March 2024
Author : Tahir Dhindsa

What Matters Most – Votes or Numbers?

March 2024
Author : Sarwar Bari

Default: Incentivising Cooperation Between Creditors

March 2024

Unending Crises of Unending Hybridity

March 2024

Making Sense of Pakistan’s Retaliation Against Iran

March 2024

Grassroots Politics: The Only Way Forward

March 2024
Author : Shahnaz Khan

Electables: The Unsung Losers of the 2024 Elections

March 2024
Author : Bilal Lakhani

2024 Elections: The End of Electables?

March 2024
Author : Hassan Javid

Empowering the Lowest Strata: A Vehicle for Socioeconomic Transformation

March 2024
Author : Nasim Beg

How the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programmes in Pakistan Violate ILO Conventions

March 2024
Author : Shahzeb Usman

Political Reform: Constitution Sans Implementation

March 2024
Author : Naqi Akbar

Countertrafficking/Counterinsurgency: A (Counter) Productive Relationship

March 2024
Author : Hammad Bilal

Strategic Leadership and Statecraft

March 2024

The Significance of Oral Histories in Pakistan

March 2024
Author : Anam Zakaria

Half-Human: The Bastardisation of Science Via Standardisation

March 2024
Author : Subas Amjad

The Silent Crisis: How Climate change is Driving Food Inflation in Pakistan

March 2024
Author : Bilal Hussain

Monumental Shifts in Pakistan’s Startup Landscape: For the Better or Worse?

March 2024
Author : Ahtasam Ahmad

OLOMOPOLO:  Ten Years of Drive, Discourse, and Dialogue

March 2024

Abstraction in Art: Aesthetic Excellence or Elitist Farce?

March 2024
Author : Abbas Moosvi

PIDE Bi-Monthly Roundup

March 2024

Media Coverage: GORS Everywhere

March 2024

What Do We Know About The Online Freelancing Market In Pakistan

March 2024

Pakistan’s Urban Water Challenges and Prospects

March 2024
Author : Nazam Maqbool

Batala Engineering Company (BECO): A Tragic Story of Plummet from the Apex

March 2024

EVs — toys for the rich?

March 2024

Asserting economic sovereignty

March 2024
Author : Abbas Moosvi

The Economic and Environmental Cost of Election 2024

March 2024

GORs Everywhere: University Land For Public Housing

March 2024

Reinventing Cities as Catalyst for growth: A Collection of Work at PIDE

March 2024
Edited By : Nadeem Ul Haque, Lubna Hasan

Monetary Policy: Crafting a Path for Pakistan’s Economic Stability

March 2024
Edited By : Abdul Jalil, Hafsa Hina

Evaluation of Seed Industry: Way Forward

March 2024

Newsletter: February 2024

March 2024

Article 63-a: the delicate dance

March 2024

Innovation in academia

March 2024
Author : Abida Naurin

Vol. 63 No.1-2024

February 2024

The Geopolitics of Peace in a Post-Western World – Special Invited Lecture (Article)

February 2024

Korea’s Saemaul Undong Revisited as Rural Development Game for Poverty Eradication: A New Development Economics Perspective (Article)

February 2024
Author : Sung-Hee Jwa

Determinants of Management Practices among Manufacturing Firms in Pakistan (Article)

February 2024

Public Cognizance of E-waste Effects on Human Health and Environment: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan (Article)

February 2024

Macroeconomic Policy, Institutional Quality and Inclusive growth in Nigeria (Article)

February 2024

Manifestoes without Substance (Policy)

February 2024

Pre-Afghan Taliban Refugee Exodus and the Complexities of Returning Home (Policy)

February 2024

Is Corruption Perception Index Biased? An Ethnicity Based Analysis (Policy)

February 2024
Author : Abida Naurin

Lahore in the 21st Century: The functioning and development of a megacity in the global south (Book Review)

February 2024
Author : M. S. Nawaz

CORPORATE WINDOW: Bureaucrats on SOE boards

February 2024
Author : Ahmad Fraz

Pakistan’s Emigration: Trends & Insights

February 2024
Author : Junaid Ahmed

Political Party Manifestos: Reform Paradox in Pakistan

February 2024
Author : PIDE

A tax to transform the auto sector

February 2024

Readings in Pakistan’s Energy Challenges

February 2024
Edited By : Afia Malik

Newsletter: January 2024

February 2024

Challenges And Opportunities Of The Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Project (TBTTPP): A Case Study Of The Ex-FATA (Pakistan)

January 2024
Author : Nazam Maqbool

Government Training & Development Endeavors

January 2024

Plots, Privileges and Protocols

January 2024

Media Coverage – PIDE Reform Manifesto

January 2024

A Manifesto for Reform

January 2024
Author : Nasir Iqbal

The true costs of perks and privileges of government employees

January 2024
Author : Ajmal Kakar

PIDE Reform Manifesto: Transforming Economy and Society

January 2024
Author : PIDE

Media Coverage – 4th Think Tanks Moot

January 2024

MEDIA COVERAGE – DISCOURSE

January 2024

Media Coverage – Memorial Sartaj Aziz

January 2024

Message from Reformistan

January 2024
Author : Nasir Iqbal

Newsletter: December 2023

January 2024

Reconfiguring Pakistan: State, Society, Economy

January 2024

Reform: What, Why and for Whom?

A Possible Reform Agenda

January 2024
Author : Shahid Kardar

Governance Reform in Pakistan

January 2024

Charting the Course at a Nation’s Crossroads

January 2024

Agenda for the Incoming Government

Need for Constitutional Reforms

Making our Democracy Work – What Went Wrong and How to Fix It: A Lawyer’s View

January 2024

Arbitrary Adjournments

January 2024
Author : Sahar Saqib

Labour Legislation

January 2024
Author : Parvez Rahim

Textual Mapping of Gender in Pakistan’s Constitution

January 2024
Author : Marva Khan

Constitutional Economics & Development

January 2024

Electoral Reform: A Case for Proportional Representation

Author : Sarwar Bari

Cold Flesh (Thanda Gosht)

January 2024

Why is Pakistani Politics Stuck in a Groove?

January 2024

Enhancing Electoral Trust for Economic Stability

January 2024
Author : Nasir Iqbal

Rethinking Electoral Politics

January 2024
Author : Abbas Moosvi

The Three-Year Political Term: Benefits, Challenges, and Staggered Elections in Focus

January 2024
Author : Abida Naurin

Civil Service Reform in Pakistan: Some Principles

Governance Reforms: Anchored in Civil Service Reforms

January 2024
Author : Shahid Kardar

Bureaucratic Reform

January 2024

Conceptualising Reform: Political Economy of Incremental Processes Versus Sudden Overhauls

January 2024

The Unfinished Agenda of Parliamentary Reforms

January 2024

Unmasking the Hidden Costs

January 2024
Author : Ajmal Kakar

Kill Transactions, Kill Economic Growth

January 2024

Fiscal Management in Pakistan: The Way Forward

January 2024

Restructuring and Rescheduling of External and Domestic Debt

January 2024
Author : Shahid Kardar

A Proactive and Pro-People Policy Framework

January 2024
Author : Ammar H. Khan

Reforms – Monetary and Fiscal

January 2024
Author : Salim Raza

FBR Tax Policy and Performance: Loopholes in Federal Tax Revenue Forecasting

January 2024

Fiscal Policy for Economic Growth

January 2024
Author : Faisal Rashid

Revitalising Pakistan’s Financial Landscape: A Call for Comprehensive Reforms in the Stock Market

January 2024
Author : Ahmad Fraz

So Much Aid, So Little Development!

January 2024

Economic Self-Determination, the IMF, and Pakistan

January 2024
Author : Ayesha Malik

Is There an Alternative Path to Foreign Aid?

January 2024
Author : Themrise Khan

Effective Aid Requires a Locally Owned Development Vision

January 2024
Author : Tobias Haque

Pakistan and the IMF

January 2024

The Double-Edged Sword of Identity Capitalism: A Case Study of Pakistan’s Khwajasira Community Based Organisations

January 2024

Revamping Energy Systems for a Sustainable Future

January 2024
Author : Afia Malik

The Tangled Web of Energy Governance

January 2024
Author : Khalid Waleed

Renegotiating Agreements with IPPs to Reform the Energy Sector

January 2024
Author : Shahid Kardar

Meaningful Energy Transition in Pakistan: Microscale to Macroscale

January 2024

Revitalising Pakistan’s Industrial Sector: A Roadmap for Resilience and Innovation

January 2024
Author : Usman Qadir

Can Domestic Trade be the Engine of Pakistan’s Growth?

January 2024
Author : Omer Siddique

Industrial Policy Reform

January 2024
Author : Ishrat Husain

The Need for Trade Policy Reforms in Pakistan

January 2024

Beyond Import Substitution: Charting Pakistan’s Future with Export-led Growth!

January 2024

Strengthening Institutions and Simplifying Regulations: Key to Unleashing Pakistan’s Trade and Industrial Potential

January 2024
Author : Vaqar Ahmed

Fostering Trade and Industry

January 2024
Author : Manzoor Ahmad

Revitalising the Seed Industry in Pakistan

January 2024

Agricultural Income Tax

January 2024
Author : Ikramul Haq

Land Reforms through Agricultural Land Consolidation

January 2024

No Progress Without Land Reform

January 2024
Author : Abbas Moosvi

The Neglected Tale of Agricultural Land Markets

January 2024
Author : Sobia Rose

Incorporating Women into Pakistan’s Labour Force

January 2024
Author : Hadia Majid

Beneath the Surface: Unmasking the Cost of Public Servant in Pakistan

January 2024

Privoconomy: Private-Sector’s Impact on Pakistan’s Unemployment & Shrinking Employability of Human Capital

January 2024
Author : Rutaba Adnan

A Case for Unionisation

January 2024

Revitalising Labour Relations in Pakistan: A Call for Comprehensive Reforms

January 2024
Author : Asma Hyder

Looking Beyond the Mainstream Business & Economic Approaches: Restoring Acts of Humanising in Pakistan

January 2024

Akhuwat University: A Paradigm Shift in Education

January 2024
Author : Asad Zaman

Education: Some Thoughts on the Way Forward

January 2024
Author : Faisal Bari

Latest PISA Assessment: Lessons for Pakistan

January 2024

Education Priorities: Access Vs. Quality

January 2024

Where are the Opportunities for the Poor?

January 2024

Social Protection in Pakistan: Reforms for Inclusive Equity

January 2024

The Reality of Housing in Pakistan

January 2024
Author : Arif Hasan

Public Health Crisis: A Cry for Reforms

January 2024
Author : Zafar Mirza

Augmenting Universal Health Coverage through Digital Technologies in Pakistan

January 2024
Author : Zia Banday

Decolonising the City for Sustained Development: Land, Commerce, and Real Estate

January 2024

Beyond Code and Control: Reimagining Technology in Urban Pakistan for Collective Empowerment

January 2024
Author : Hamza Sarfraz

Urban Transit and Transportation Service in Pakistan: Challenges and Opportunities

January 2024

Local Government Reforms: An Overview

January 2024

The Song Remains the Same

January 2024

COP28 and Pakistan’s Energy Transition

January 2024
Author : Maha Kamal

Cease and Desist: Would a Carbon Tax Pave the Way to a Sustainable Future for Pakistan?

January 2024
Author : Manal Wasim

Air Pollution

January 2024
Author : Sanval Nasim

Incubating Community Centres and Creative Industries

January 2024

What’s in a Name? The Indeterminacy of Power, Politics and People

January 2024

The Vulgar in the Vernacular: From Meeraji to Punjabi Theatre

January 2024
Author : Hammad Bilal

Online Communities, Sense of Belonging and Beyond

January 2024
Author : Saman Nazir

Leadership Pathologies

January 2024
Author : Neda Mulji

Exploring the Value Structure of Pakistan’s Job Market

January 2024
Author : Henna Ahsan

Impact of Education Mismatch on Earnings: Evidence from Pakistan’s Labor Market

January 2024
Author : Henna Ahsan

Transforming Economy & Society

January 2024
Author : PIDE

Making Sehat Sahulat Program Sustainable

December 2023

Media Coverage: The State of Commerce in Pakistan International and Domestic

December 2023

Farmers are not the main culprits of smog

December 2023

How expensive are public servants?

December 2023
Author : Ajmal Kakar

Students in 2022

December 2023

Trade, Industry and Competition in Pakistan

December 2023

The State Of Commerce In Pakistan: International & Domestic

December 2023
Author : RASTA-PIDE

Educational Exclusion of Children with Special Needs

December 2023

Farmers not the principal culprits

December 2023

Building Community & Networks

December 2023

Economic Contribution of Forestry Sector

December 2023

Provincial Transfer Accounts: Generational Economy in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan

December 2023

Making Women’s Work Count in Pakistan: Measuring the Gendered Economy

December 2023

Understanding the Provincial Generational Economy for Improved Policymaking

December 2023

Counting Women’s Unpaid Care Work in Pakistan

December 2023

Media Coverage of PIDE Macro Policy Lab Policy Statement

December 2023

Our emigration outlook

December 2023
Author : Junaid Ahmed

From forced migration to forced repatriation

December 2023
Author : Ajmal Kakar

Newsletter: November 2023

December 2023