Department: Economics

Extension Number: 657

Email ID: nazeefishtiaq@fccollege.edu.pk

Office Number: E-218

Brief Profile:

Nazeef Ishtiaq holds M.Phil. and B.Sc. degrees from the Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), where he graduated with distinction. He worked as a research assistant for the UNDP Pakistan’s report on Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Analytical Basis and Policy Framework (2018) after completing his Masters. He then joined the Information Technology University Lahore as a research associate, where he participated in various research projects and conducted his own original research. He has presented his work at several national and international conferences. His main research interest is to examine how countries develop their productive and technological capabilities for socio-economic development and what policy implications this has for Pakistan. His paper on Productive Capabilities and Economic Development: A Case for Industrial Diversification in Pakistan (as the lead author) was featured by the Pakistan Business Council in a report on industrial diversification in Pakistan. As a liberal arts graduate, Nazeef believes that economic development in Pakistan is a complex phenomenon that requires an inter-disciplinary understanding of different development issues and a multifaceted approach to address them. His main research and teaching objectives are to conduct new research that contributes to the development of productive capabilities of Pakistani society and to inspire the future generations to critically analyze the existing development paradigms and models and to offer new and fresh perspectives on various development challenges faced by Pakistan.

Education:

• MPhil in Applied Economics, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore.
• BSc (Honors) with Economics as majors, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University, Lahore.
• Higher Secondary School Certificate, Government College University (GCU), Lahore.

Research and Publications:

1. Trade Liberalization and the Complexity of Productive Structures in Developing Countries, paper presented at the 20^th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, July 5-7, 2018.
2. Productive Capabilities and Economic Development: A Case for Industrial Diversification in Pakistan, (with Ahmed Chaudhry), paper presented at the 33^rd Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists, organized by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), in Islamabad, Pakistan from December 12-14, 2017.
3. Innovation, Technological Capabilities and Developing Countries’ Income Terms of Trade: A Reassessment of the Prebisch-Singer Thesis, paper presented at the Festival for New Economic Thinking, organized by the Young Scholar’s Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, in Edinburgh, UK, October 18-20, 2017.
4. Local Government, Inclusive and Sustainable Development, chapter co-authored with Akmal Hussain, published in the UNDP Pakistan Report titled, Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Analytical Basis and Policy Framework, 2017, pp. 75-83.
5. Testing the Marshall-Lerner Condition and the J-Curve Phenomenon for Pakistan: Some New Insights, (principal author), published in the International Journal of Economics and Empirical Research, 4(6), pp. 307-319.