The Local Government Forum

The Local Government Forum

• Collaborating Partners: The Institute of Development and Economics Alternatives and Dehleez

9.30 am to 5.00 pm

25th August 2023

Conference: Pathways to Development

Pathways to Development: Equitable and Sustainable Growth in Pakistan

Political Economy of Development

In-Group Bias in Indian Judiciary

• Panelists: Bilal Siddiqi (The Life You Can Save), Ali Hasanain (LUMS) and Rabia Malik (Essex)

5:00 PM PKT

9th June 2022

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Innovation and Productivity for Export-Led Growth in Pakistan

• Panelists: Azam Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics) and Ali Cheema (LUMS, IDEAS, CERP)

5:00 PM PKT

26th May 2022

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Negotiating Adulthood: Women’s Education, Work and Family Formation in Rural Pakistan

• Panelists: Tahir Andrabi (Pomona), Hadia Majid (LUMS) and Farah Said (LUMS)

8:00 PM PKT

19th May 2022

Political Economy of Development

Against All Odds: Social and Political Action for Empowerment and Accountability

• Panelists: John Gaventa (IDS), Ayesha Khan (IDS, CSSR), Khawar Mumtaz (Women’s Rights Activist), Sarah khan (Yale), Umair Javed (LUMS), Miguel Loureiro (IDS) and Shandana Khan Mohmand (IDS)

3:00 PM (PKT)

21st April 2022

I. A. Rehman Social Justice and Change Webinar Series

Housing Futures in the City of Islamabad

• Panelists: Ayesha Shahid (Citizen Planner), Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (QAU, APAKA), Sikander Ajam (Federal Commission to Review Islamabad’s Master Plan), Jawad Aslam (AMC) and Fizzah Sajjad (LSE).

2:00 PM (PKT)

18th April 2022

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy

• Panelists: Esther Duflo (MIT, J-PAL, 2019 Nobel prizewinner in Economic Sciences), Farah Said (LUMS) and Ali Cheema (LUMS, IDEAS, CERP)

7:15 PM (PKT) / 10:15 AM (ET)

6th April 2022

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

The Rise of Populism in South Asia

• Panelists: Pradeep Chhibber (Berkeley), Shandana Khan Mohmand (IDS) and Hassan Javid (LUMS)

9:30 PM PKT

24th March 2022

Mahbub ul haq Distinguished Lecture

The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries

• Panelists: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale), Maha Rehman (LUMS) and Ali Cheema (LUMS, IDEAS, CERP)

6:30 PM PKT

17th March 2022

Political Economy of Development

Development & Contention: Energy Politics in the Contemporary Era

• Panelists: Naomi Hossain (AU), Erum Haider (Wooster), Ijlal Naqvi (SMU) and Umair Javed (LUMS)

6:30 PM PKT

10th March 2022

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Urbanisation and Economic Development after COVID-19

• Panelists: Edward Glaeser (Harvard), Ali Cheema (LUMS, IDEAS, CERP) and Kate Vyborny (Duke)

7:00 PM PKT

7th February 2022

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT

Distributive Politics in India and Pakistan

• Panelists: Adam Auerbach (AU), Asad Liaqat (Facebook), Jennifer Bussell (Berkeley) and Shandana Khan Mohmand (IDS)

9:30 PM PKT

31st January 2022

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT

Informal Institutions, Property Rights, and the Foundations of Political Order in Afghanistan

• Panelists: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili (Pittsburgh) and Yasir Khan (Pittsburgh)

5 PM PKT

20th January 2022

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

• Panelists: Christophe Jaffrelot (Science Po, KII, KCL), Asma Faiz (LUMS) and Anu Joshi (IDS)

7:00 PM PKT

29th November 2021

I. A. Rehman Social Justice and Change Webinar Series

Dispossession for Development? Land Struggles in Contemporary Pakistan (pt 2)

• Panelists: Tanveer Ahmad (Sujag), Rabia Ezdi (NCA), Fahad Malik (Praxis Legal), Sajjad Warraich (Social Activist) and Umair Javed (LUMS)

5:30 PM PKT

25th November 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Fiscal Challenges and Tax Reforms in Pakistan

• Panelists: Mazhar Waseem (Manchester), Sher Afghan Asad (LUMS) and Giulia Mascagni (IDS)

4:00 PM (PKT)

18th November 2021

Nigar Ahmad-Rubina Saigol Lecture Series

Causes and Consequences of the Global ‘Rights Revolution’ for Women

• Panelists: Mala Htun (UNM), Sarah Khan (Yale) and Sohela Nazneen (IDS)

7:00 PM PKT

4th November 2021

Book Launch

Womansplaining

• Panelists: Zeenia Shaukat (Independent Researcher), Sara Malkani (Center for Reproductive Rights), Afiya Shehrbano Zia (Wesleyan) and Maryam Khan (IDEAS)

5:00 PM PKT

28th October 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Bureaucracy, State Capacity and Development

• Panelists: Adnan Q. Khan (LSE). Ali Cheema (LUMS, IDEAS, CERP) and Miguel Loureiro (IDS) and

4:00 PM (PKT)

18th October 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Rethinking the Role of the State: From Public Goods to Public Values

• Panelists: Mariana Mazzucato, Melissa Leach and Ali Cheema

3:00 PM (PKT)

28th June 2021

Political Economy of Development

State Capture, Political Distortions and Development

• Panelists: Leonard Wantchekon, Shandana Khan Mohmand and Ali Cheema

5:30 PM (PKT)

17th June 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Pakistan’s Divergent Fertility Transition

• Panelists: Zeba Sathar, Hadia Majid and Maha Rehman

1:45 PM (PKT)

11th June 2021

Political Economy of Development

Deepening Democracy: the role of Associational Politics

• Panelists: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Patrick Heller, Umair Javed and Shandana Khan Mohmand

6:30 PM (PKT)

27th May 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Student Learning in Pakistan

• Panelists: Tahir Andrabi, Rabea Malik and Miguel Loureiro

11:00 PM (PKT)

20th May 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Polarized Democracies: Causes and Consequences

• Panelists: James Robinson, Shandana Khan Mohmand and Umair Javed

6:30 PM (PKT)

8th April 2021

SWGI-MHRC-KASHF Conference

Gender, Inequality and Microfinance

• Panelists: Sima Kamil, Hadia Majid, Sima Kamil, Maryam Mustafa, Roshaneh Zafar and Zaianb Saeed

2:45 PM (PKT)

30th March 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Human Development, Climate Change and the Anthropocene

• Panelists: Ajay Chhibber, Adil Najam, Frances Stewart, Sir Richard Jolly and Hadia Majid

6:00 PM (PKT)

15th March 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Three Faces of Agency in Feminist Economics: Capabilities, Empowerment, and Citizenship

• Panelists: Naila Kabeer, Sohela Nazneen and Nida Kirmani

5:00 PM (PKT)

11th March 2021

Book Launch

Book Launch: Pakistan’s Political Parties

• Panelists: Mariam Mufti, Sarah Khan, Asad Liaqat and Umair Javed

6:00 PM (PKT)

4th March 2021

Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture

Technical Change, Inequality, and Capitalist Development

• Panelists: Daron Acemoglu, Shandana Khan Mohmand and Ali Cheema

8:00 PM (PKT)

24th February 2021