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Anticipated Versus Unanticipated Terms of Trade Shocks & The J-Curve Phenomenon
October 23, 2017
Speaker’s Profile: Syed Zahid Ali is a professor of economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He did his M.A and PhD in economics from McMaster University Canada. He joined LUMS in 2002. His teaching interest covers areas like Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Mathematical economics, Monetary Economics, Econometrics, and Finance etc. Syed Zahid also taught at various universities such
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Progress and Prospects of CPEC (THE CHINA-PAKISTAN MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE EVENT)
October 3, 2017
Speaker’s Profile: Dr Shahid Rashid is the Executive Director of the Centre of Excellence of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CE-CPEC), Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad. The CE-CPEC is envisioned as an apex research center to work as a think tank to reap the true spirit of the CPEC portfolio; energy, infrastructure, Gwadar and industrial cooperation to support the broader initiatives
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Session on "CPEC and Role of Business"
September 26, 2017
Dr Salman Shah, former minister of finance and advisor on finance to the Prime Minister, spoke to a packed audience on Friday, 22 September, 2017 at the Suleman Dawood School of Business at LUMS. He spoke about the role of business in creating a manufacturing base in the region and the important role that CPEC can play towards that. He was of the view that without institutional and human resource development, we may not be fully able to
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Research Seminar on CPEC and Role of Business by Dr Salman Shah
September 19, 2017
Speaker’s Profile: Dr Salman Shah has served as Finance Minister of Pakistan from 2004 to 2008, a period of extensive economic reform and changes. His tenure was significant for the development of the private sector, large FDI flows into the country and a successful return to international capital markets with the issuance of global depositary receipts, Eurobonds and Islamic Sukook bonds. He has also been a
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