Books

1. The Management of the Pakistan Economy 1947-2024, New Edition, Lahore School of Economics, 2025
2. Collected Economic Papers Volume II, Pakistan’s Economy Under IMF Tutelag 1988-2022, Lahore School of Economics, 2022.
3. Collected Economic Papers Volume I, Pakistan’s Poverty Puzzle, Lahore School of Economics, 2021.
4. The Pakistani Diaspora: Corridors of Opportunity and Uncertainty (ed.) Lahore School of Economics, 2017.
5. Pakistan: Moving the Economy Forward (ed.) with Shahid Javed Burki, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
6. Private Industrial Investment in Pakistan 1960-1970, Cambridge University Press, South Asian Series, Cambridge, 1982.
7. Management of the Pakistan Economy 1947-1982 (with Viqar Ahmed), Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1984.
8. To the Gulf and Back: Studies on the Economic Impact of Asian Labour Migration, (ed.), Asian Employment Programme, ILO, New Delhi, 1988.
9. Human Resource Planning - The Asian Experience, (ed.), Asian Employment Programme, ILO, New Delhi, 1987.
10. The Development of Labour Intensive Industry in ASEAN Countries, (ed.), Asian Employment Programme, ILO, 1981.
11. Jobs for Iraq: An employment and decent work strategy, (ed.), International Labour Organisation, Geneva, 2006.
12. New Approaches to Manpower Planning and Analysis (with Peter Richards), ILO, Geneva, 1994.
13. Industrial Concentration and Economic Power in Pakistan, South Asian Institute, Lahore: Punjab University Press, 1974.

Global Reports

• World Employment Report 2001: Life at Work in the Information Economy, ILO, Geneva 2001 (Chief of the Report Team and Principal Author  Part 1, Global Employment Trends and Chapter on Overcoming the Digital Divide: Strategics for Development and Poverty Alleviation).
• World Employment Report 1998-99, Employability in the Global Economy: How Training Matters, ILO, Geneva 1998 (Principal Author and Chief of the Report Team).
• Articles:    Many articles in leading journals and books including:
• “Pakistan’s Economic History: Key Turning Points” Chapter 18, in Latika Chaudhary  et.al. The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia, Cambridge Univerity press. Forthcoming, January, 2026
• “Exchange Rate Management: A case Study of Pakistan” (with Almazia Shazhzad) Chapter 2, in Chaudhr, Azam et.al., Polices Challenges for Macroeconomic Management and Growth in Pakistan, Second Editon, 2025, Lahores School of Economics 
• Breaking out of Pakistan’s Stop-Go Economic Cycles: Do the “Twin” Fiscal and Current Account Deficits Hold the Key, 1999-2019, in Azam Chaudhry and Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (ed.), Economic Challenge Facing Pakistan with Regional and Global Environment 2017-2019, Lahore School of Economics, 2019.
• The Challenges of a resilient economy, in Ishtiaq Ahhmad and Adnan Rafiq, Pakistan’s Democratic Transition: Change and Persistence, Routledge, 2017.
• Remittances and Poverty: A Comparison of Bangladesh and Pakistan 2000-16,  Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol XL, September-December 2017, Dhaka.
• Economic Management under IMF Tutelage: Key Lessons from the Musharraf and PPP Rule 1999-2013, in Rashid Amjad and Shahid Javed Burki, Pakistan: Moving the Economy Forward, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• What Holds Back Manufacturing in South Asia, with Anam Yusuf et.al., Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, Issue No. 10, 07 March, 2015.
• An Analysis of the Remittance Market in Pakistan, with Arif, G.M. and M. Irfan in Amjad, Rashid and Shahid Javed Burki (ed.), Pakistan Moving the Economy Forward, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Pakistan: Chapter 6, with Muslehuddin in Alberto E. Isgut ed., Asia-Pacific Economies afther the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward, Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 2014.
• Why has Pakistan not Reaped the Demographic Dividend? in Sathar, Zeba, A., Capturing the Demographic Dividend in Pakistan, Population Council, New York, 2013.
• Food Security in South Asia: strategies and programmes for regional collaboration, with Muhammad Iqbal, in Hafeez Rehman et.al. (ed.), Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia, Asian Development Bank and Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K., 2013.
• Preliminary Study: Explaining the Ten-fold Increase in Remittances to Pakistan 2001-2012, with Arif, G.M. and M. Irfan, PIDE Working Papers, No. 86, 2012, Islamabad.
• Economic and social impact of global financial crisis: implications for macroeconomic and development policies in South Asia, with Muslehuddin, PIDE Monograph Series, 2010.
• Remittances and Poverty in Pakistan: A Note in Banerjee, Lopamudra et.al. (ed.), Development Equity and Poverty: Essays in Honour of Azizur Rahman Khan, Macmillan Publishers India, 2010.
• Stagflation, the Labour Market Impact, and the Poverty Pazzle in Pakistan Lahore Journal of Economics, Vol. 17, SE, 2012 Lahore.
• Pakistan: Breaking Out of Stagflation into Sustained Growth with Musleh ud Din and Abdul Qayyum, Lahore Journal of Economics, Vol.16-Se, 2011, Lahore.
• Export Barriers in Pakistan: Results of a Firm-Level Survey, Lahore Journal of Economics, Vol. 17, SE, 2012, Lahore.
• The Musharraf Development Strategy: Will it Deliver?, Lahore Journal of Public Policy, 2006, Lahore
• Why Pakistan Must Break-into the Knowledge Economy, Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, September 2006.
• Skills and Competitiveness: Can Pakistan break out of the Low Level Skills Trap the Iqbal Memorial Lecture, Pakistan Development Review Volume 44, Number 4; Part 1, 2005.
• Pakistan’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: Why Employment Matters, Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, September 2005.
• Remittances and Development in South Asia, South Asian Review, No.6, October-December 2004.
• Solving Pakistan’s Poverty Puzzle: Whom Should we Believe? What Should we Do the Omer Asgher Khan Memorial Lecture, Pakistan Development Review, Volume 42, Number 4, Winter 2003, Islamabad.
• Pakistan’s Economic System: A stage of Transition with Naved Hamid, Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol…… No……, Lahore.
• The Employment Challenges for Pakistan in the 1990s, in Nasim, Anjum ed., Employment Implications for Development Policies for the 1990s, Lahore
• Macroeconomic Policies and their Impact on Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan ( with A.R. Kemal),  Pakistan Development Review 36:1. 1997.
• Employability in the Global Economy and the Importance of  Training, Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal, Volume 20, Number 4, Summer 1999.
• International Labor Migration and its implications in the APEC Region, Journal of Philippine Development, Number 40, Volume XXIII, First Semester 1996.
• Philippines and Indonesia : On the Way to a Migration Transition, Asia and Pacific Migration Journal, Volume 5, Number 2-3, 1996.
• Asian labour Migration in the Middle East: Lessons and Implications , in Gooneratne, W, Philip L. Martin and Hidehiko Sazanami (eds), Regional Development Impacts of Labour Migration in Asia, UNCRD Research Report Series No. 2, UNCRD (Nagoya).
• The Dynamics of Asian Labour Migration in Japan Institute of Labour, Present Issues of International Migration : How can the Sending and Receiving Countries Co-operate?  Proceedings of the 1992 Asian Regional Conference on Industrial Relations (Tokyo) 1992.
• Role of Labour Markets in Employment Generation and Human Resources Development in Asian Countries, (with Gus Edgren) in Guy Standing and Victor Tokman (eds.), Towards Social Adjustment : Labour Market Issues in Structural Adjustment, ILO Geneva, 1991.
• Impact of Workers’ Remittances from the Middle East on Pakistan’s Economy: Some Selected Issues, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. XXV, No. 4, 1986
• Manpower Planning and Employment Issues in Developing Countries (with Christopher Colclough) Working Paper No. 7, Aspects of Labour Market Analysis and Employment Planning, World Employment Research Programme, ILO, Geneva, 1986.
• Poverty in Rural Pakistan (with M. Irfan) in A.R. Khan and E. Lee (eds.),  Poverty in Rural Asia, Asian Employment Programme, ILO, Bangkok, 1994.
• Industrial Relations and the Political Process in Pakistan (with Khalid Mahmood), Research Series No. 73, International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva, 1982.
• Profitability and Industrial Concentration in Pakistan, Journal of Development Studies, Volume No. 13, No. 3, April 1977.
• The Development of Labour Intensive Industry in ASEAN Countries: An Overview, in Amjad, Rashid (ed.), Development of Labour Intensive Industry in Asean Countries, ILO/ARTEP, 1981, Bangkok.
• Human resource development: The Asian Experience in Employment and Manpower Planning – An Overview, in Amjad, Rashid, Human Resource Development: The Asian Experience, ILO/ARTEP, 1987, New Delhi.
• “Small Scale Industries and Rural Development: Implications for Rural Industrialisation in Pakistan”, in Rural Small Scale Industries and Employment, ILO, 1984, Geneva.
• Economic Impact of Migration to the Middle-East on the Major Asian Labour Sending Countries. An Overview, in Amjad, Rashid (ed.), To The Gulf and Back: Studies on the Economic on Impact of Asian Labour Migration, ILO/ARTEP, 1988, New Delhi.
• A Study of Investment Behavior in Pakistan Behaviour in Pakistan, 1962-70, The Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 15 No.Issue 2, 1976.
• Growth, Profitability and Savings of Quoted Companies, 1964-70, Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol. XI, No. 4, 1973.
• “A Critique of the Green Revolution in Pakistan”, Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Summer, 1972.
• “Investing in People”, the Presidential Address, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Part 1), Winter, 2009.
• “Economic Sustainability in a Globalized World”, The Presidential Address, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Part 1), Winter, 2008.
• “Fiscal Decentralisation: Empowering the Provinces Strengthening the Federation”, The Presidential Address, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, winter, 2010.
• “Economic Growth and Development: New Directions”, The Presidential Address, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Part 2), 2011.
• “Environment and Natural Resource Management”, The Presidential Address, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Part 1), Winter, 2008.
• Major Reports/Research Programmes and Projects
• The Tenth Five Year Plan 2010-15: Investing in People, (Draft) Planning Commission May 2010 (prepared as Chief Economist) Islamabad.
• Outline of the Tenth Five Year Plan 2010-15: Investing in People, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, (Approved by the National Economic Council), May 2009, (prepared as Chief Economist).
• Economic Adjustment in with a Human Face, Interim Report of the Panel of Economists, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, October, 2008, Islamabad. (Member cum Convener, Panel of Economists)
• Medium-Term Development Imperatives and Strategy for Pakistan: Final Report of the Panel of Economists, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, April, 2010, Islamabad. (Member cum Convener, Panel of Economists)
• Jobs for Iraq: An Employment and Decent Work Strategy (2005). Leader of the ILO technical team which prepared this report which was subsequently published by the ILO as an edited book (with Julian Havers).
• An Employment Strategy for the Islamic Republic of Iran (2004).  Leader of the ILO technical team for the preparation of the report which was published in 2005 as a joint ILO/UNDP publication by ILO’s Sub-Regional Office, New Delhi.
• A Global Agenda for Employment : Discussion Paper, ILO, Geneva March 2002.  Co-ordinated inputs from different Departments in the ILO and held discussions with UN Agencies, World Bank and the IMF in developing the analysis and major elements of the Global Employment Agenda and main author of the Discussion Paper.  (The Global Employment Agenda was adopted by the ILO’s Governing Body in March 2003 and serves as the framework of all ILO’s work on employment).  
• An Employment Agenda for China: Background Paper for the China Employment Forum, ILO, Geneva, March 2003.  Co-ordinated (with Alena Nesporova) inputs from different Departments of the ILO in developing the analytical framework and main elements of the Employment Agenda for China and joint author of the final report.  The China Employment Forum was held in April 2004).
• ACC Task Force on Full Employment and Sustainable Livelihoods: Synthesis Report, ILO, Geneva, 1997 (Based on Policy Reviews conducted by UN Agencies and the World Bank in Chile, Hungary, Indonesia, Nepal, Morocco, Mozambique and Zambia).  Main author of the Synthesis Report.
• ILO/UNDP  TSS1 Project on Equality and Protection of Women Workers in the Formal Sector in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, ILO/SEAPAT, Manila, 1996.  Overall in-charge of this sub-regional study conducted under a common framework in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
• Philippines: Comprehensive Employment Strategy Programme: Challenge and Response, ILO/SEAPAT, Manila, 1995. Co-ordinator and Principal Author of the Report  prepared as ILO’s input for the tripartite National Employment Summit organized by the Government of the Philippines and chaired by the President of the Philippines in May 1995. The Summit adopted concrete follow-up action in a number of areas which the ILO’s Report had identified after extensive consultations with the social partners and members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
• Botswana : Integrated Human Resources Development - Report of a Joint ILO/UNESCO/UNIDO mission sponsored by UNDP , ILO, Geneva, May 1993. Chief  of the Inter-Agency Mission Team and author of the Final Report which was discussed at a national tripartite seminar organised in Gaborone and attended by the tripartite constituents, donor community and the academia.  
• Report of the National Manpower Commission, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, 1990.  As member of the Commission appointed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan attended Commissions sittings in different provincial capitals and main author of the Final Report which has played a major role in influencing  Pakistan’s employment and human resource development strategy and policies in the 1990s.
• ILO/SIDA Project on Active Labour Market Policies in China, (with Chinese Ministry of Labour on initiating and monitoring labour market reforms in China) 1987-91. Co-ordinator of the Project and author of a number of studies and surveys carried out under the project. Project acknowledged by the Chinese government as one of the most successful technical co-operation activities in supporting the labour market reform process and the building up of public employment services in China. 
• ILO/UNDP Asia Regional Programme on International Labour Migration,  (regional and country studies component on the economic and labour market impact of out and return migration from Asian countries) 1987-91. Co-ordinator of the project component and author of a number of studies conducted.  Studies were discussed with key policy makers and the social partners and played an important part in increasing awareness and adoption by relevant government agencies of   suitable policy measures for channelling remittances into productive activities and reabsorption of return migrants.  
• ILO/UNDP Asian Network of Human Resource Development Planning Institutes, (network of leading institutes in Asia and the Pacific working on employment and labour market issues conducting joint research and exchange of information to improve the quality of planning and utilization of human resources in the region) 1987-91.  Co-ordinator of the Network covering research studies on key HRD issues in a process of globalization and structural change, training programmes for institute staff and policy makers on employment and labour market analysis and exchange of information on research and other activities of member institutes.
• ILO/World Bank Report on the Impact of Out and Return Migration on Domestic Employment and Labour Markets in Pakistan (Volume I to Volume VII) - Report for the Pakistan Planning Commission) 1986-87. Co-ordinator of the project and principal author of the Main Report).  Report which was discussed in a national tripartite workshop organized jointly by the Pakistan Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance and attended by key government agencies alerted the government on the slowing down of out migration from the country, projected accurately the expected decline in remittances and made major recommendations for the productive reabsorption of return migrants. Surveys on return migrants conducted under the project have provided data set for a number of subsequent studies including for PhD candidates. 
• ILO/ARTEP Report on Employment and Structural Change in Pakistan : Issues for the Eighties- Report for the Employment Chapter in Pakistan’s Sixth Five Year Plan, 1983.  Co-ordinator of the studies and principal author of the Report and of the Chapter on Employment in Pakistan’s Sixth Five Year Plan (1983-88).
• ILO/ARTEP Report on Employment and Structural Change in Tonga - Issues for the Fifth Five Year Plan (1986-90) for Central Planning Office, Kingdom of Tonga, 1985. Co-ordinator and author of the Report.
• ILO/ARTEP Report on Employment and Incomes : Kiribati National Development Plan (1983-86) 1983. Author of the report which was included as Chapter in the Kiribati Development Plan 1983-86.