Happening Now: Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, Advisor (Climate Change) Planning Commission of Pakistan, speaks on Understanding the Taxonomy of International Climate Finance as a part of GIDS Seminars Series 2024.
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Today, we celebrate the unsung heroes who make the wheels go round, the workers of the nation. We celebrate their handwork, their resilience, and their commitment.
Latest in the GIDS Book Reviews Series: The Digital Disconnect by Ellen Helsper is
"worth a read because digital inequalities are as relevant today as they were at the turn of the century," writes @thezeescore, Research Associate at @GIDS.
Read: https://t.co/OUAtQtCuOm
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The federal govt should play an active role in restoring and maintaining macroeconomic stability while the provinces should lead job and revenue generation in Pakistan, argues Director @GIDS@rashidamjad111 in his latest opinion piece.
Reversal of Roles: https://t.co/1c45bABpMq
Technology can address educational inequalities
...only if we account for the context.
Because both tech & edu gaps are intersectional & layered.
My case in "Technology Meeds Context" featured in today's paper: https://t.co/Dmla8lc513
#EducationDay#EducationJustice4ALL#ICT4D
"For technology in education to address the worsening education challenges, it is important to understand the context of the disadvantages...," posits @thezeescore, Research Associate at @GIDSLahore.
Read her take in "Technology needs context" at: https://t.co/nFcZrXM6oI
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"The demographic dividend is highly time specific, and it is the interplay of factors such as declining fertility, increased savings, educn...," argues @memoona_qazi, Research Associate at @GIDS.
Read her piece, The Youth Factor, at https://t.co/rohT82KUHm
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Pakistan should rethink some IMF conditions to beat its immediate economic challenges.
One change may be a move towards REER-aligned managed exchange rate to ensure export competitiveness, suggests Director @GIDSLahore, @rashidamjad111.
Read more at: https://t.co/nbCAwM2uh5
1) Program and registration details for Applied Development Economics Conference (#ADE2023) to be held from 23-25 August, 2023 are now available.
Register Now: https://t.co/Se8sEa4dNe
Program attached!!
The Center for Research in Economics and Business (CREB @CREB_Pak ) at #LahoreSchoolofEconomics is hosting its 5th International Conference on Applied Development Economics (ADE) from 23 - 25 August 2023 @Innovate_Centre
"For AI in Education to work and Education for AI to be efficient, we need AI Education – Digital and AI Literacies," posits Zahra Mughis (@thezeescore), RA at #GIDS, in "AI in education: need for digital literacy."
Read at: https://t.co/SH3gL8QHBI
#AI#DigitalLiteracy#ChatGPT
Proud to announce that #LahoreSchoolofEconomics has been listed as one of the top 200 international trade programs in the world.
https://t.co/QmRIo4SQz9
"Is the IMF agreement a case of a hard or a crash landing?" @rashidamjad111, Director GIDS, poses the question in his latest opinion piece, Post-Fund Deal.
Read at: https://t.co/N1B6JU3QUs
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Interested in taking a broader perspective on the most pressing development challenges of our time?
Come study with us!
#GIDS offers a fully-funded M. Phil. in Development Studies, an interdisciplinary program.
Fall 2023 Admissions are open.
Last day to apply: July 5th, 2023.
"We heard an outline of a new development paradigm (5 Es) but found no word on the binding constraint holding it back — an unimaginably high population growth rate," argues @rashidamjad111, Director GIDS, in his take on #Budget2023-2024.
Read at: https://t.co/XDmToRdUIW
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