PIDE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 2020 PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS PIDE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 2020 PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS Editorial Team Dr. Shahid Razzaque Muhammad Azhar Saghir Mushtaq Design Afzal Balti For contributions and feedback, please reach us at [email protected] www.pide.org.pk [email protected]. 92-51-924 8051 92-51-942 8065 Working Papers 06 Policy View Points 08 Knowledge Briefs 10 PDR 12 - Vol-1 PDR 59(1) 2020 12 - Vol-2 PDR 59(2) 2020 13 - Vol-3 PDR 59(3) 2020 14 P&R Magazine 15 - Issue 1 PIDE Policy and Research (P&R) 15 - Issue 2 Pakistan is Tilting at the Windmill by Regulating 15 - Issue 3 Growth Diagnostic of Pakistan 15 - Issue 4 Cities and Urbanization 15 Special COVID-19 Initiatives 16 - PIDE Work in Covid-19 (Bulletin) 17 - Covid-19 War 18 - Crowd Sourcing Covid Response 19 - Covid News Letter Series 21 - PIDE Covid-19 Blogs Series 22 CONTENTS PIDE Blogs 24 Webinars / Seminars 28 Videos of the Events/ Interviews 35 Newspaper Articles 45 WORKING PAPERS 2020:6. The Tariff Tripod of Pakistan: Protection, Export Promotion, and Revenue Generation by Jamil Nasir. 2020:7. Pakistan: With holdingisation of the Economic System a Source of Revenue, Civil Strife or Dutch Disease+? by Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed. 2020:8. A case for Social Distancing in Developing Countries by Ammar Rashid. 2020:9. Construction without Real Estate Development by Nadeem Ul Haque and Nadeem khurshid. 2020:10. Measuring the Impact of Remittances on Housing Demand: Evidence from Large Cities in Pakistan by Ayaz Ahmed, Nasir Iqbal and Ghulam Mustafa. 2020:11. Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Five Decade Overview by Omer Siqqique. 2020:12. Unveiling the Effects of Indoor Air Pollution on Health of Rural Women in Pakistan by Abedullah Muhammad Tanvir. 2020:13. Aspirations and Behaviour : Future in the Mindset The Link between Aspiration Failure and the Poverty by Omer Siddique and Durr-e-Nayab. 6 Working Papers 2020 2020:14. On Deconstructing National Education Policy Framework 2018 of Pakistan by Fahd Zulfiqar Zulfiqar Ali. 2020:15. Conflict and Religious Preferences: Evidence from a Civil Conflict in Pakistan by Karim Khan Muhsin Ali. 2020:16. Macro Shocks and Child Grade Attainment in Rural Pakistan by M. Jehangir Khan Wei Yin Aqsa Anwar. 2020:17. Pursuit of Ideal Strategy to Manage Pandemic: A Comparative Study of COVID 19 for USA, Italy, Spain, China and Pakistan by Syed Akhtar Hussain Shah. 2020:18. Gender Socialisation among Pakistani Preadolescents and Adolescents by Zehra Aftab. 2020:19. Foreign Training of Government Officers and Public Sector Capacity in Pakistan by Faheem Jehangir Khan. 2020:20. Circular Debt— An Unfortunate Misnomer by Afia Malik. 2020:21. A Tale of Two Punjabs and CPEC by Sana Ajmal, Lubna Hasan and Iftikhar Ahmad. 2020:22. Oil Price Volatility and Stock Returns: Evidence from Three Oil-price Wars by Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Junaid Ahmed and Mazhar Mughal. 2020:23. An Empirical Analysis of Pakistan's Agriculture Trade with China: Complementarity or Competition? by Unbreen Qayyum and Neelum Nigar. 2020:24. Correction of Trade Deficit through Depreciation A Misdirected Policy: An Empirical Evidence from Pakistan by Hafsa Hina. 2020:25. Developing Research and a Research Culture: Results from a Pilot Project in Pakistan by Nadeem Ul Haque and David Orden. 2020:26. Estimating the Footprint of Government on the Economy by Nadeem Ul Haque and Raja Rafi Ullah. 2020:27. Size and Age as Determinants of Employment Growth among Manufacturing Firms in Pakistan by Farrukh Iqbal and Aadil Nakhoda. 2020:28. Cinema in Pakistan: Economics, Institutions and Way Forward by Zulfiqar Ali and Fahd Zulfiqar. 2020:29. The Fall of Urdu and the Triumph of English in Pakistan: A Political Economic Analysis by John Willough and Zehra Aftab. 2020:172. Macroeconomic Research and Policy Making: Processes and Agenda by Nadeem Ul Haque. 2020:173. Increasing Revenue for Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad by Nadeem Ul Haque. 2020:174. Entertaining Douglass North: Polotical Violence and Social Order by Karim Khan, and Sadia Sherbaz. 2020:175. Sending Money Home: Transaction Cost and Remittances to Developing Countries by Junaid Ahmed, Mazhar Mughal, Inmaculada and Martinez-Zarzoso. 2020:176. The C-Section Epidemic in Pakistan by Aman Nazir, and Cynthia Cready Working Papers 2020 7 POLICY VIEW POINT 8 Policy View Point 11: 2020 Doing Development Better: Analyzing the PSDP Conference. 12: 2020 Lahore's Urban Dilemma Doing Cities Better by Nadeem Ul Haque, Hafeez Ur Rehman Hadi, Madeeha Qureshi and Fahd Zulfiqar. 13: 2020 Strategies to Improve Revenue Generation for Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation by Lubna Hasan. 14: 2020 National Tariff Policy 2019 – 24 by Usman Qadir. 15: 2020 Getting More out of THE PSDP Through Results Based Management by Raja Rafiullah. 16: 2020 The Islamabad Master Plan by Lubna Hasan, Aqeel Chaudhry, Ayaz Ahmed and Hanzla Jalil. 17: 2020 Doing Taxes Better: Simply, Open and Grow Economy by Muhammad Nasir, Naseem Faraz and Saba Anwar. 18: 2020 Unconditional Cash Transfer and Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan BISP's Impact on Households' Socioeconomic Wellbeing by Durr-e-Nayab and Shujaat Farooq. 19: 2020 Unravelling Water Use Efficiency in Sugarcane and Cotton Production in Pakistan by Abedullah Anjum and Uzma Zia. 20: 2020. Aug 10 The Poor State of Financial Markets in Pakistan, The Role and Structure of Financial Markets by Shahid Mehmood and Ahmad Fraz. 21: 2020. Sep 10 Creativity in Schools: A 21st Century Need by Saman Nazir. 22: 2020. Nov 09 The Pension Bomb and Possible Solutions by Mahmood Khalid, Naseem Faraz, and Brig. (Retd.) Muhammad Ashraf. Policy View Point 9 KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 10 Knowledge Brief Apr, 2020 What Do We Know of Exchange Rate Pass Through? by Abdul Jalil. Apr, 2020 The Cost of Disinflation: The Sacrifice Ratio by Nadeem Ul Haque and Abdul Jalil. May, 2020 National Poverty Estimates 2018-19 by Nasir Iqbal. 5: 2020 What Do We Know of Exchange Rate Pass Through? by Abdul Jalil. 6: 2020 The Economic Analysis of Law in Pakistan by Omer Siddique. Jun 29, 2020 Is Pakistan Talent Repellant? by Shahid Mahmood. Jul 14, 2020 The Sugar Industry of Pakistan—Understanding Structural and Regulatory Underpinnings of the Current Sugar Crisis by Abedullah, Madeeha Gohar Querashi, Omer Siddique and Uzma Zia. Jul 15, 2020 City Planning and Urban Design Guide by Zoya Ali. Aug 05, 2020 Higher Taxes Reduce Economic Growth: Overwhelming International Evidence by Sarah Nizmani. Sep 01, 2020 Import and Export Policy Orders and Amendments Through Statutory Regulatory Orders. by Uzma Zia and Farhat Mahmood. Sep 24, 2020 Bangladesh and Pakistan: The Great Divergence. by Mahmood Hasan Khan. Oct 20, 2020 Exchange Rate Policy Must Seek Undervaluation! by Abdul Jalil. Oct 26, 2020 Wheat Support Price: A Note for Policy-makers.by Abdul Jalil, Fhd Zulfiqar, Muhammad Aqeel Anwer, Nasir Iqbal and Saud Ahmed Khan. Nov 10, 2020 Debt Sustainability : Economic Growth is the Panacea. by Abdul Jalil. 2020: 20 Dec 13 Does Free Market Mechanism Offier a Win-Win Situation to Wheat Consumers and the Government ? by Abedullah Knowledge Brief 11 PDR The Pakistan Development Review PDR 59(1)2020 1. Gulzar Khan and Ather Maqsood Ahmed, Understanding Business Cycle Fluctuations in Pakistan 2. Abida Yousaf and Tahir Mukhtar, External Debt and Capital Accumulation Nexus: Evidence from Pakistan 3. Muhsin Ali and Karim Khan, Volatility in Discretionary Public Spending and Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis. 4. Bisharat Hussain Chang, Suresh Kumar Oad Rajput, Pervez Ahmed, and Zafar Hayat, Does Gold act as a Hedge or a Safe Haven? Evidence from Pakistan. 5. Zainab Jehan and Iffat Irshad, Exchange Rate Misalignment and Economic Growth in Pakistan: The Role of Financial Development. 6. Zafar Hayat and Muhammad Nadim Hanif, Assessing the Role of Money versus Interest Rate in Pakistan. COMMENTARY Mahmood Hasan Khan. Agriculture in Pakistan: A Revisit. Omer Siddique.The Economic Analysis of Law in Pakistan POLICY Muhammad Nasir, Naseem Faraz, and Saba Anwar. Doing Taxes Better: Simplify, Open and Grow Economy. Nadeem Ul Haque. Doing Development Better: Analysing the PSDP. Usman Qadir. Analysing the National Tariff Policy. BOOKS Katy Gardner and David Lewis. Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century. Reviewed by Maria Pilar Lorenzo. 12 The Pakistan Development Review PDR 59(2)2020 1. Zainab Jehan and Faiza Azhar Khan, Demographic Changes and Economic Growth in Pakistan: The Role of Capital Stock 2. Malik Muhammad and Muhammad Jamil, Intergenerational Mobility in Educational Attainments. 3. Saima Nawaz and Idrees Khawaja, The Impact of Political Regime and Institutions on Government Size in Middle-Income Countries 4. Saima Nawaz, Institutions, Regional Integration and Bilateral Trade in South Asia: PPML Based Evidence. 5. Salahuddin, Javed Iqbal, and Misbah Nosheen, Economic and Cultural Distance and Regional Integration: Evidence from Gravity Model Using Disaggregated Data for Pakistan. 6. Theresa Thompson Chaudhry, Maha Khan, and Azka Sarosh Mir, Gender Gaps in Child Nutritional Status in Punjab, Pakistan COMMENTARY Mahmood Hasan Khan. Bangladesh and Pakistan: The Great Divergence. POLICY Saman Nazir. Creativity in Schools: A 21st Century Need. Abedullah Anjum and Uzma Zia. Unravelling Water Use Efficiency in Sugarcane and Cotton Production in Pakistan. BOOKS Daniel H. Pink.Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates us. Reviewed by Nadeem Ul Haque. Sara Rizvi Jafree (Ed.).The Sociology of South Asian Women's Health. Reviewed by Saman Nazir The Pakistan Development Review 13 PDR 59(3)2020 1. Lubna Naz, Abdul Salam Lodhi and Daniel W. Tsegai, Parents' Perception of Education and Choice of Childhood Activities: Evidence from Pakistan. 2. Zahra Batool, Hamid Hasan and Ghulam Mustafa Sajid,Does Job-Satisfaction Cause Life-Satisfaction? New Evidence Using Lewbel Methodology 3.