The Sindh Economic Survey 2009–2011 will be launched at the Management Excellence Centre (MEC) of the Institute of Business Management on Thursday (tomorrow).
Provincial Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah will be the chief guest on the occasion.
This survey seeks to analyse developments in the provincial economy during 2009 and 2011.
These areas have been comprehensively covered as those pertaining to agriculture, manufacturing, construction, education, manpower, health, transport and communication. The provincial fiscal balances and developments in the financial sector have also been analysed.
The project leader of the survey is Professor M Ashraf Janjua, adviser to the IoBM president and former deputy governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. The project’s co-leader is Professor Dr Javed Akbar Ansari, dean of the College of Business Management, IoBM. A team of worthy and dedicated IoBM faculty and researchers meticulously supported the project.
This is the second study on developments in Sindh being published by the MEC on the basis of a research grant from the Higher Education Commission. The first survey – Sindh Development Review 1972-2008 – was presented in the Second International Conference in 2010.
The two surveys that IoBM has published on the economy of Sindh are based on attempts in developing a methodological framework for estimating time series data on key macro-economic variables. The survey (2009–2011) reviews macro-economic and sector specific policies of provincial government and estimates Sindh’s gross provincial product and its principal components for the period under review.