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Shahida Wizarat

Dr Shahida Wizarat is an independent economist and has been involved in research, teaching and administration. She is the author of over thirty five research papers and articles published in journals of international repute in Pakistan and abroad. She has organized, attended and read papers in several international and national conferences. She was awarded British Council Scholarship and Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship in the years 1977 and 1983 respectively. She has served as the Editor of the Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics and Director of the Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Karachi Stock Exchange. She is also on advisory boards and research councils of several organizations and universities. At present she is Research Professor at the Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi.

 

Books

 

 

 

 

Journals

• Saudi Arabia : An Overview of the Economy, The Pakistan Horizon.

• Technological Change in Pakistan's Agriculture, Pakistan Development Review, Vol.XX, No.4, Winter 1981.

• Sources of Growth in Pakistan's Large‑Scale Manufacturing Sector. Pakistan Economic and Social Review, No.2, Winter 1989.

• Simultaneous Estimation of Production Function and Beneficiaries of Growth for a Developing Economy. Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol.VII, No. I, 1988.

• Inter‑Industry Productivity Differentials in Pakistan's Large‑Scale Manufacturing Sector, 1970‑1980, Singapore Economic Review, October 1988.

• Misspecification in the Source of Growth Analysis: The Contribution of the Capital Input in Pakistan. Industry and Development No.28, UNIDO.

• On Profitability and Industrial Concentration in Pakistan. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 17, 1992.

• Productivity trends in Pakistan's Manufacturing, Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. VII, No.2, 1988.

• Economic Integration Among the ECO Countries: Prospects and the Challenges Ahead. Paper read at the Conference on Asian Regional Cooperation, November 1992 and printed in the Iranian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. V, No.1, Spring 1993.

• Industrial Concentration in Pakistan's Manufacturing: Its Origin and Determinants, Singapore Economic Review, October, 1992.

• Intra-Sectoral Productivity Differential: The Large-Scale vs. The Small-Scale Sector in Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics (PJAE), Vol.IX, No.2, 1990.

• Fifty-Years of Pakistan: Impediments to Economic Development, Paper read at the Friends Seminar, 30 August, 1997 and published in the Friends Perspective, Vol V, No. 1-2, September October 1997.

• Paying Debt Through Loot, Pakistan Business Review, Vol. 2, No 3, October 2000.

• An Alternative External Debt Management Strategy, Pakistan Business Review, Vol. 3, No 1, April 2001.

• Industrial Concentration and Economic Power in Pakistan: A Study of the Firms Quoted on the Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan Business Review, College of Business Management, April 2003, Karachi

Research Reports

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seminars, Conferences and Newspapers

• Development of Economic Integration Among the SAARC Countries, paper read at the seminar organized by the SAARC Chamber in Islamabad on 24-25 September, 1995.

• The Development Policy Debate (Dependence on WB-IMF Policies) Dawn 17 and 18 February, 1996.

• The Impact of Foreign Borrowing on our Political Structure, Paper read at the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) Seminar and published in their papers and proceedings and later in the Business Recorder, 31 December, 1996.

• Good-bye caretakers? The News, 16 March, 1997.

• Conflict between interests of country and technocrats; where is the dividing line? The News 6 April, 1997.

• A Debt Management Strategy for Pakistan, Paper read at the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAP) and Institute of Cost and Management Accountants (ICMA) Post Budget Seminars and later published in the Dawn, 9 June, 1997.

• A Case for ‘Partners in Development’, Dawn 17 July 1997.

• The Politics of Economic Policies, Paper read at the seminar organized by the Area Study Centre for Europe, University of Karachi, in collaboration with the Hans Seidel Foundation, October 1997.

• Meeting Economic Warfare Challenge, Dawn, 8 April, 1998.

• Some Challenges to National Security in the 1990s and Beyond, Margalla Papers, National Defense College, Islamabad, 1998.

• A Blue Print for a Change, Dawn, 20 February, 1999.

• Crisis Management of the Economy, Dawn, 27 October, 1999.

• Points on Economic Policy Formulation, Dawn, 19 November, 1999.

• Debt Crisis and its Management, Dawn, 20 August 2000.

• Bypassing the IMF, Dawn, 12 April, 2001.

• Not the Right Strategy to Manage Debt, Dawn, 18 June, 2001.

• The War Against Terror or the New World Order, Dawn, I December 2001.

1. Pakistan's Trade Relations with Eastern Europe, Research Report, Research Wing N.B.P.

2. Trade Problems of Developing Countries, Research Wing, NBP. Also serialized in the Business Recorder.

3. The Problem of Un‑Employment, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research Wing, NBP.

4. Japan Today, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research Wing, NBP.

5. Performance of the Nationalized Banks. Paper written for the Pakistan Banking Council.

6. Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function for Pakistan's Agriculture, Research Report, PIDE.

1. ‘The Rise and Fall of Industrial Productivity in Pakistan’ Oxford University Press (OUP), Karachi: 2002.

2. An Economic Perspective in Karachi: Mega city of Our Times (ed Hameeda Khuhro and Anwar Mooraj), Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1997

3. Economic Integration Among the ECO Countries: Prospects and the Challenges Ahead. Paper read at the Conference on Asian Regional Cooperation, November 1992 and printed in Pakistan, Central Asia and the Region: Prospects of Regional Cooperation (ed. Dr. S.M. Haider) Progressive Publishers, Lahore, 1994.