Papers Presented in Seminars

Child Labor Today: Issues, Causes and Consequences. Paper presented in the 8^th Sustainable Development Conference held on December 7-9, 2005 and organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, Pakistan.

Child Labour in Pakistan and other Developing Countries. Paper presented in the 21^st Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE), held on December 19-21, Islamabad. This paper will be published in the Pakistan Development Review which is an international Journal.

Measurement of Passive-Use Values: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Empirical Investigation. Paper presented at the Policy Research and Proposal Writing Workshop, jointly organized by IUCN and SANDEE, Islamabad, May 16-19, 2005.

Assessing the Risks and Impacts of Climate Change on Nature and the Global Economy. Presented at the APN – CAPaBLE National Workshop on “Global Change - Challenges, Impacts, Opportunities & Prospects” April 28-30, 2005 jointly organized by Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC) and FAST, Islamabad.

Poverty, Environment and growth: Exploring the links between three Complex Issues with special Focus on the case of Pakistan. Presented at the 7th Sustainable Development Conference “Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes” organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad December 8-10, 2004. This paper has now been published as a chapter in a book titled “Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes.” The book is jointly published in 2006 by SDPI, Islamabad and SAGA, Karachi.

Urban Environmental Management in Peshawar Pakistan: A Diagnosis of Problems and Prospects. (Presented at the Beijer International Research Seminar in Environmental Economics held on September 18-20, 2000 at Kathmandu, Nepal and organized by the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

Factors Causing of Environmental Degradation in Pakistan: Challenges to Sustainable Development. Paper Presented at the Beijer International Teaching Workshop in Environmental Economics held on October 24- November 3, 1999 at Kathmandu, Nepal and organized by the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

Determinants of Borrowing in Formal Credit Markets in Northern Pakistan: An Application of Logistic Regression Model. Paper Presented at a Two-day National Seminar on Managing Micro Rural Credit held on 12^th and 13^th May 1999 by The Pakistan Academy for Rural development, Peshawar; This Paper has also been submitted for Publication to American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Causes of East and Southeast Asian Financial Crisis: Its Impact on Pakistan. Paper Presented at the State Bank of Pakistan, Peshawar Branch in August, 1998.

Southeast Asian Financial Crisis: A Diagnosis of its Causes. Paper Presented in a National Seminar on Issues in Economic Development of Pakistan, 20^th - 24^th August, 1998 at Bara Gali Summer Campus of the University of Peshawar.

Impact of Southeast Asian Financial Crisis on Pakistan. Paper Presented in a National Seminar on Issues in Economic Development of Pakistan, 20^th - 24^th August, 1998 at Bara Gali Summer Campus of the University of Peshawar.

Alleviating Stark Poverty through Rural Development Programmes: An Unsuccessful Experience in Pakistan. Paper Presented in a two-day National Workshop on Rural Development, 5^th and 6^th November 1997 at Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Peshawar.

The Willingness to Pay for Recreational Services with the Applications of Multivariate Analyses of two Public Parks in Northern Pakistan. Paper Presented at the 2002 South and Southeast Asia Regional Meeting of Econometric Society, December 28-30, 2002 at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore. This paper was also presented in Netherlands. For details