You Are Invited–PAKISTAN-INDIA TRADE: WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? WHAT DOES IT MATTER?

                 

The Wilson Center’s Asia Program and Program on America and the Global Economy along with the Fellowship Fund for Pakistan Present:

 Pakistan-India Trade:

What Needs to be Done? What Does it Matter?

  Monday, April 23, 2012, 9:45 A.M.- 4:15 P.M.

5^th Floor Conference Room

CONFERENCE AGENDA

9:45     Registration and coffee

10:00   Introduction

Robert M. Hathaway, director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center

10:15   Panel I: Moving forward on MFN

Ijaz Nabi, visiting professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and Pakistan country director, International Growth Centre

A view from Pakistan

Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Hero Corporate Service (invited)

A view from India

Ishrat Hussain, dean and director, Institute of Business Administration (Karachi)

Dissenting views             

12:30   Luncheon

1:00     Luncheon keynote address

Zafar Mahmood, commerce secretary, government of Pakistan

2:00     Panel II: Broadening the debate

Amin Hashwani, founder, Pakistan-India CEO’s Business Council

Social issues, civil society, and security

Nisha Taneja, professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Non-tariff barriers, infrastructure deficiencies, and high transaction costs

Ejaz Ghani, economic adviser for South Asia, World Bank

Regional implications

4:15     Adjournment

 

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This conference has been made possible through the generosity

 of the Fellowship Fund for Pakistan.

Event Summary: Pakistan’s Economy: Edging Towards an Abyss, or Pulling Back?

Presented by The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program and Program on America and the Global Economy

Over the last few years, Pakistan’s economy has been in a tailspin. These economic struggles will undoubtedly deepen in the aftermath of this summer’s catastrophic floods. Pakistan’s government puts the economic losses from the deluge at about $43 billion, or more than a quarter of the country’s total economy. Islamabad’s estimates for gross domestic product growth in fiscal year 2010-11 have fallen from 4.5 to 2.5 percent. On September 13, the Asia Program, with assistance from the Program on America and the Global Economy, hosted an event to highlight the findings of a new report on Pakistan’s economy. The study was produced by the Institute of Public Policy (IPP), based at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore. Each event speaker contributed to the report.