Nawab Haider Naqvi


Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi was a Pakistani economist and scholar.

Early life and education

Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi was born in Meerut, British India on 11 July 1935. He migrated to Karachi, Pakistan in 1950.
He received his master's degree from Yale University in 1961 and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1966. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University from 1969–1970.

Career

Naqvi served as the director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics from 1979 to 1995. He also served as a senior economic advisor for the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority and a Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Distinguished National Professor and director general at Federal Urdu University, Islamabad.

Death

Naqvi died on 7 July 2024, at the age of 88.

Awards

Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award by the President of Pakistan in 1991

Selected publications

  • Perspectives on Morality and Human Well-being, Leicester : Islamic Foundation, 2003.
  • Development Economics: Nature and Significance. Sage Publications, New Delhi, US, London, 2002.
  • The Crisis of Development Planning in Pakistan: Which Way Now? Islamabad: Institute of Policy Studies..
  • External Shocks and Domestic Adjustment: Pakistan 's Case 1970-1990, Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Islam, Economics, and Society. London: Kegan Paul International 1994.
  • Development Economics : A New Paradigm. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1993.
  • SAARC Link: An Econometric Approach. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH. 1992.
  • Macro-Economic Framework for the Eighth Five Year Plan; Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 1992.
  • On Raising the Level of Economic and Social Well-Being of the People. Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 1992.
  • Structure of Protection and Allocative Efficiency in Manufacturing. San Francisco International Center for Economic Growth, 1991.
  • Structural Change in Pakistan's Agriculture. Islamabad Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. October, 1989.
  • Land Reforms in Pakistan: A Historical Perspective. Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. November, 1987.
  • Preliminary Revised P.I.D.E. Macro-Econometric Model of Pakistan 's Economy. Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 1986.
  • Ethics and Economics: An Islamic Synthesis. Published by the Islamic foundation, UK, 1981.