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Bureaucracy, State Capacity and Development
18th Oct 2021
Womansplaining
Speaker: Zeenia Shaukat (Independent Researcher), Ayesha Razzaque (MOFEPT), Sara Malkani (Center for Reproductive Rights), Afiya Shehrbano Zia (Wesleyan)
Moderators: Maryam Khan (IDEAS)
28th Oct 2021
MAHBUB UL HAQ DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 2021
Rethinking the Role of the State: From Public Goods to Public Value
Speaker: Mariana Mazzucato (UCL)
Moderators: Melissa Leach (IDS) and Ali Cheema (LUMS, MHRC, IDEAS)
28 June 2021
Professor Mazzucato discusses the role of the state in a post-COVID world and examines the state capabilities needed to build a better future that is innovation-led, inclusive and sustainable. Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. She is also the founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is winner of international prizes including the 2020 John Von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named as one of the ‘3 most important thinkers about innovation’ by the New Republic. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed books, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths and The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy.
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State Capture and the Breakdown of Democratic Institutions
Speaker: Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton)
Moderators: Shandana Khan Mohmand (IDS and MHRC) and Ali Cheema (LUMS, MHRC and IDEAS)
17 June 2021
Professor Wantchekon examines the mechanisms of state capture in low income countries and discusses how these mechanisms contribute to the breakdown of democratic institutions. Leonard Wantchekon is a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the President and Founder of the African School of Economics. His research interests include political economy, economic history and development economics. A scholar with diverse interests, he has made substantive and methodological contributions to the literatures on clientelism and state capture, resource curse and democratization.
MAHBUB UL HAQ DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 2021
Pakistan's Divergent Fertility Transition
Speaker: Zeba Sathar (Population Council)
Moderators: Hadia Majid (LUMS and MHRC) and Maha Rehman (LUMS and MHRC)
10 June 2021
Sathar examines the divergence in Pakistan’s fertility transition from other countries in South Asia. She examines the causes that explain this divergence and its implications for citizen welfare. Zeba Sathar is the Director of Population Council, Pakistan and is a leading demographer working on South Asia. Her research interests include demographics, gender, population planning and child and maternal health. She is the author of the publication ‘Capturing the Demographic Dividend in Pakistan’.
MAHBUB UL HAQ DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 2021
Enforcement for Sale? Irrigation Reform and Lobbying for Water in Pakistan’s Indus Basin
Speaker: Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank)
28 February 2020
A lecture by Ghazala Mansuri, Lead Economist in the Poverty Reduction & Equity Global Practice, World Bank on ‘Enforcement for Sale? Irrigation Reform and Lobbying for Water in Pakistan’s Indus Basin. Dr. Mansuri’s lecture focused on governance reforms in the Indus Basin irrigation system, and explored the ways in which the distribution of political power along a channel has impacts on the distribution of wealth.
BOOK COLLOQUIUM
The New Pakistani Middle Class and Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters
16th January 2020
The book colloquium featured Dr. Mohmand’s book ‘Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters’: >- Democracy under Inequality in Rural Pakistan’ and Dr. Maqsood’s book ‘The New Pakistani Middle Class’ for a unique discussion on the state of inequality in Pakistan.
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Children’s Health, Well-Being, and Human Capital Formation in the Context of Extreme Poverty
Speaker: Imran Rasul (UCL)
1 November 2019
The Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre’s inaugural lecture featured University College London’s Award-Winning Professor, Dr. Imran Rasul, in collaboration with the Suleman Dawood School of Business. Dr. Rasul discussed children’s health, well-being and human capital formation in the context of extreme poverty.
24th July 2020
WEBINAR
Property Tax and Urban Policy in KP
Moderated by Ali Cheema(LUMS, MHRC and IDEAS).
This webinar bought together senior policy makers,academics and practitioners to discuss property tax and its role in influencing urban policy. Panelists discussed international best practices and domestic experiences in Pakistan’s Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
