Dr. Rashid Amjad participated in a panel discussion on “Still the Overdeveloped State?: Political Economy of Pakistan” along with Dr. S. Akbar Zaidi and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar at the Lahore Think Fest 2020.

By Usman Hanif Published in The Express Tribune on April 25, 2025 KARACHI: While signs of macroeconomic recovery are emerging, Pakistan’s economic growth decelerated during the first half of fiscal year 2024-25 (H1-FY25), as contraction in the industrial sector and a slowdown in agriculture weighed heavily on overall performance. Although the services sector witnessed a slight improvement, […]

Published in Dawn on April 26, 2025 LAHORE: Experts at a two-day conference on the management of Pakistan’s economy organized by the Lahore School of Economics (LSE) have called urbanization a key to country’s economic growth and urged the government to focus on this. The event focused on challenges to growth and trade, against the backdrop of[…]