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
Published in Dawn on December 08, 2025 THE recent Pakistan Population Summit organised by DawnMedia laid it out plainly: the country cannot keep growing at its current pace. We stand at more than 241m people and numbers are expected to cross 330m by 2050. Pakistan is hurtling towards a future it is not even remotely prepared for.[…]
