This meeting will engage the IGC Pakistan team with a wider set of academic institutions and young researchers in the Punjab and Islamabad region. Research funded by the IGC Pakistan team will be shared with attendees. This includes findings on how to improve public schools, an evaluation of a skills development programme in south Punjab, the possibility of using ICT to improve governance in Punjab and the path to effective socio-economic planning in urban Pakistan.
Meeting Agenda
|
Presentation |
Presenter |
Time |
|
Tea and Networking |
|
10:15 |
|
Introduction and Welcome |
Dr. Ijaz Nabi |
10:45 |
|
Key Note Address |
TBD |
11:00 |
1 |
Exploiting inter-school variation in test scores to improve public schools This is a pilot project to explore if differences in teacher characteristics can explain the variation in test scores of public schools over PEC exam. |
Dr. Farooq Naseer |
11:30
|
2 |
Punjab Economic Opportunities Programme- Skills An RCT based evaluation of skills development program launched in south Punjab. The project has designed several interventions for creating a market of skills which will be evaluated through randomized control trials method. |
Dr. Ali Cheema |
12:00 |
3 |
Monitoring the Monitors: Using ICT for improving governance in Punjab Smart phones are increasingly being used to advance the agenda of accountability in public service delivery. This project uses RCT to evaluate use of smart phones for improving governance in health sector in Punjab by monitoring district health officials. |
Dr. Ali Hasanain |
12:30 |
|
Lunch and Networking |
13:00 to 14:00 |
|
1 |
Auto Sector in Pakistan This study provides an overview of the trends in automotive industry and its competitiveness, and also evaluates the effectiveness of Automotive Industry Development Program against the goals set therein. |
Dr. Hafiz Pasha |
14:15 |
2 |
Spillovers in Technology: Evidence from Randomized Experiment in Pakistan This project studies to what extent, and how quickly, new technologies diffuse across firms within the same industry, identifying characteristics of the firms that are able to quickly implement new technologies. |
Ms. Shamyla Chaudhry |
14:45 |
3 |
Integrating Urban Datasets: The Path to Effective Socio Economic Planning in Urban Pakistan This study lays the ground work for the development of economic activity scorecards for urban areas of Punjab in the future by dividing urban areas into well identified sub-units. |
Dr. Sohaib Khan |
15:15 |
|
General Discussion |
|
15:45 |
|
Concluding remarks |
Dr. Naved Hamid |
16:00 |
