By S. Akbar Zaidi Published in Dawn on December 19, 2025 PAKISTAN is in decline — in serious, considerable and sharp decline — as manifested by its economic, social and human development indicators. This decline is both relative to other comparable developing countries which have now steadily and increasingly outpaced Pakistan as indicated by multiple indicators, and […]
On 10th December 2025, the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lahore School of Economics, organized a seminar titled “A Fifteen-Year Journey Exploring Lahore’s Heritage” by Syed Faizan Abbas Naqvi, popularly known as Lahore ka Khojji, as part of the Economic History Society. The session was presided over by Dr. Rashid Amjad, Director GIDS and Patron of[…]
Dr. Rashid Amjad, Professor of Economics and Director, GIDS, Lahore School of Economics addresses the Dawn Summit on Population on “Why Pakistan has not reaped the Demographic Dividend: lessons from countries in the region which have done so’” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SH_M_KM-79iKBYHRH0YKeEDnZUuIFFzu/view?usp=drive_link

