PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECNOMIC

Vision PIDE to Function as a World Class Centre of Excellence for Research and Teaching Mission A world-class research and teaching institute building on the strengths and high standards it has achieved over the last sixty years. Motto Spirit of Free Inquiry. Values Integrity, intellectual rigor, creativity, and ideological diversity. The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics was established at Karachi in 1957 and in 1964 accorded the status of an autonomous research organization by the Government of Pakistan. It is devoted to theoretical and empirical research in Development Economics in general and on Pakistan-related economic issues in particular. In addition to providing a firm academic basis to economic policy-making, its research also provides a window through which the outside world can view the nature and direction of economic research in Pakistan. Other social sciences, such as demography and anthropology and interdisciplinary studies increasingly define the widening scope of research that must be undertaken for proper economic policy and development to have sound underpinnings. Over the past 61 years PIDE has earned an international reputation and recognition for its research. Our faculty is rich and our advisory committee consists of world renowned economists such as Nobel Laureate Robert A. Mundell.