Is the Cure Worse Than The Disease? Evidence from Public Procurement
Policy reforms often do not work and sometimes backfire in generating perverse unintended consequences. This talk will share lessons on how to unpack an important policy question using theory and data, as well as discuss the mechanism required to design and run an impact evaluation jointly with governments that ultimately generates new knowledge, which in turn can be taken into policy. It will focus on how to improve efficiency of public procurement which is a large item in the government budget. Reducing waste in procurement can free funds that can provide more public services and maintain the citizen's trust. Yet, the systems created to improve procurement often themselves prove to be a burden for the public purse.
Event Type:Online
Event Venue:Follow us on https://www.facebook.com/CERPakistan/ to attend the live session.
Region :South Asia
Start Date:June 1
End Date:June 3
Track:Evaluation Methods
Target Audience
Academics, Government Officials, Non-Profit Organizers, Policymakers/Parliamentarians, Evaluation Practitioners, Students
Speaker, Presenter, or Instructor
Speaker: Dr. Adnan Q. Khan
Organization : Centre for Economic Research In Pakistan
Short Biography :He is also an Associate with the Building State Capability Program with CID at Harvard & was the Research and Policy Director of the IGC,a member of the IGC’s Steering Group,& a visiting lecturer in Public Policy HKS & was a Co-chair of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility,Growth&Development
Title : Professor in Practice with School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a founding Board Member of Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP).
Session Details
Session Name:Evaluations, Communication and Use
Session Venue:CERP
Session Date:June 3
Session Time:04:00 pm ~ 05:00 pm
Session Details:It will be a webinar and will include speakers from multiple disciplines to speak on the topic.
Session Type:Online
Dr.Adnan Khan
Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy and STICERD, LSE
CERP
Adnan Q. Khan is the Professor in Practice with School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an Associate with the Building State Capability Program with Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University and a founding Board Member of Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP).
Previously he was the Research and Policy Director of the IGC, a member of the IGC’s Steering Group, and a visiting lecturer in Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School and was a Co-chair of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development. Dr. Khan has an experience of about 10 years as researcher and catalyser of others’ research. He has spent over 15 years interacting with the government, as an activist, and in private sector. He has served in government mostly as a member of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) after topping the civil service examination in Pakistan. He is also received President’s Medal for performance.
Dr. Khan has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology. He went on to do his graduate work obtaining a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School and received his PhD in Economics from the Queen’s University. He also has a diploma in International Affairs from Punjab University. His research interests lie in the areas of public economics, public finance, microfinance and growth.
Previously he was the Research and Policy Director of the IGC, a member of the IGC’s Steering Group, and a visiting lecturer in Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School and was a Co-chair of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development. Dr. Khan has an experience of about 10 years as researcher and catalyser of others’ research. He has spent over 15 years interacting with the government, as an activist, and in private sector. He has served in government mostly as a member of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) after topping the civil service examination in Pakistan. He is also received President’s Medal for performance.
Dr. Khan has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology. He went on to do his graduate work obtaining a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School and received his PhD in Economics from the Queen’s University. He also has a diploma in International Affairs from Punjab University. His research interests lie in the areas of public economics, public finance, microfinance and growth.
Session Name:Evaluation Capacity Development
Session Venue:CERP
Session Date:June 4
Session Time:04:00 pm ~ 05:00 pm
Session Details:Dr, Ali Cheema and Dr. Adnan Khan will share their experiences and deatils of their research projects.
Session Type:Online
Dr.Ali Cheema
CO-FOUNDER AND BOARD MEMBER CERP
CERP
Dr. Ali Cheema is one of the founding members and a current board member at the Center of Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). He is also an Associate Professor of Economics (currently on leave) and a former head of the economics department (2004-2007) at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS. Dr. Cheema has extensive experience in research and policy work in the areas of political economy, governance, the applied economics of crime and social protection, skills and the labour market. He was a member of the Initiative of Policy Dialogue (IPD), Columbia University, Task force on Decentralization and was one of the founding members of the Stockholm Challenge Award winning portal, Relief Information System for Earthquakes, Pakistan (RISEPAK). His recent work includes large-scale impact evaluations of vocational training for poverty reduction programs in Punjab and the relationship between criminal incidence and labour market outcomes in Pakistan.
A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Cheema holds a BA (Honors) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, and a BA in Mathematics and Statistics from Government College, Lahore. He received his MPhil in Economics and Politics of Development, and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Cheema holds a BA (Honors) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, and a BA in Mathematics and Statistics from Government College, Lahore. He received his MPhil in Economics and Politics of Development, and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Adnan Qadir Khan
Professor in Practice, LSE and Board Member CERP
London School of Economics and CERP
Adnan Q. Khan is the Professor in Practice with School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an Associate with the Building State Capability Program with Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University and a founding Board Member of Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP).
Previously he was the Research and Policy Director of the IGC, a member of the IGC’s Steering Group, and a visiting lecturer in Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School and was a Co-chair of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development. Dr. Khan has an experience of about 10 years as researcher and catalyser of others’ research. He has spent over 15 years interacting with the government, as an activist, and in private sector. He has served in government mostly as a member of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) after topping the civil service examination in Pakistan. He is also received President’s Medal for performance.
Dr. Khan has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology. He went on to do his graduate work obtaining a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School and received his PhD in Economics from the Queen’s University. He also has a diploma in International Affairs from Punjab University. His research interests lie in the areas of public economics, public finance, microfinance and growth.
Previously he was the Research and Policy Director of the IGC, a member of the IGC’s Steering Group, and a visiting lecturer in Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School and was a Co-chair of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development. Dr. Khan has an experience of about 10 years as researcher and catalyser of others’ research. He has spent over 15 years interacting with the government, as an activist, and in private sector. He has served in government mostly as a member of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) after topping the civil service examination in Pakistan. He is also received President’s Medal for performance.
Dr. Khan has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology. He went on to do his graduate work obtaining a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School and received his PhD in Economics from the Queen’s University. He also has a diploma in International Affairs from Punjab University. His research interests lie in the areas of public economics, public finance, microfinance and growth.