Summary of International Technical Experience

Sohail Jehangir Malik

Thirty five years of international experience in policy-oriented research into development problems with a focus on the issues of agricultural sector, rural development, food security and poverty alleviation. Vast experience in the evaluation of public expenditure reviews, preparing budgets for provincial PRSPs, evaluating the provincial tax potential, and developing Pakistan’s Social Accounting Matrix.

SUMMARY OF INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

·  Multi-country Agricultural Research and Policy Analyses, Support, and Capacity building for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington DC.

·  Joint-Team Leader, IFPRI Multi Country Project (MP 5) on Rural Financial Markets and Food Security 1994-95.

·  Management of All Aspects Of Multi-Million Dollar USAID Funded Multi-Country, Multi-Year Policy Support Research Programs for IFPRI and John Mellor Associates Washington DC.

·  Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Programs in Several Asian Countries for John Mellor Associates and the World Wild Life Fund Washington DC.

·  Food Security and Nutrition Research and Policy Design (for IFPRI).

·  Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects and Programs and capacity building for the World Bank Washington DC in client countries

·  Evaluation of Public Expenditure Reviews and Mainstreaming Gender in World Bank Programs

·  Policy Research on Social Safety Nets for the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC

·  Research and Policy Reform of the Rural Financial Sector in Asian and African Countries (for IFPRI and the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics PIDE).

·  Trade and Development Policy and Implementation for Developing Countries including the grass roots consultations and formulation of Pakistan’s Technical Cooperation Amongst Developing Countries (TCDC) policy and its evaluation.

·  Globalization and the WTO – Especially the implications of various Trade agreements for Pakistan’s economy.

·  Administration, Survey Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Socio-Economic Household Surveys for IFPRI and PIDE (Including Pakistan’s Only Longitudinal Survey).

·  Development and Documentation of Policy Impact for IFPRI and PIDE

·  Organization of Conferences, Dissemination of Information and Outreach including all aspect of relations with the print and electronic media for IFPRI and PIDE.

·  Taught at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan as Adjunct Professor from 1987 to 1992. Taught courses in Applied Econometric Analysis, Project Appraisal, General Equilibrium Analysis and Welfare Economics.

·  Supervised over 100 Masters and 27 M. Phil. dissertations. Was awarded a citation by the Department of Economics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad for outstanding contribution.

·  Taught at University of agriculture, Faisalabad and University of Sargodha, Sargodha as Foreign Faculty Professor in 2004-05

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Econometrics) 1985

The University of New England, Australia

M.A.D.E. (Agricultural Development Economics 1982

The Australian National University, Australia

M. Sc. (Economics) 1975

Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chairman 2002 to Present

Innovative Development Strategies (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, Pakistan

Senior Policy Advisor International Food Policy Research Institute’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program, Islamabad/Washington DC

President 2016 - Present

Innovative Development Strategies LLC, Vienna, VA, USA

Coordinator, Poverty Cluster 1998 – 2002

(World Bank UPI # 000087130) OEDCR, The World Bank

·  Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Bank’s Poverty Reduction Strategy.

·  Evaluation of Public Expenditure Reviews

·  Evaluation of the World Bank’s Poverty Assessments

·  Evaluation of the World Bank’s Efforts to Mainstream Gender

·  Evaluation of Social Funds

·  Review of the IDA 10-12

·  Evaluation of the World Bank’s Rural Development Strategy – From Vision to Action

·  Development of the OED poverty focused evaluation methodology

Chief Executive Officer 1997 – 1998

Innovative Environmental Technologies Inc. Vienna, VA, USA

·  Identification, adaptation and transfer of environmentally friendly technologies to developing countries.

·  Consultation services for United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Vice President 9/95 – 1/97

John Mellor Associates, Washington DC. USA

·  All aspects of agriculture development policy research, project development and execution from proposal writing to research and dissemination.

·  Consultation for World Wild Life Fund (WWF) and USAID.

Chief of Party/Research Fellow 1988 – 1995

International Food Policy Research Institute, (IFPRI) Washington DC, USA

·  Managed one of the largest multi-year USAID funded policy research projects for IFPRI. Raised several million dollars in project support. This project was independently evaluated to be the most successful USAID funded technical assistance project for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture of the Government of Pakistan. Widely cited by IFPRI as its most successful single country program based on Winrock evaluation.

·  Chairman, IFPRI Task Force on Impact Assessment 1995.

·  Team Leader, IFPRI Multi Country Project (MP 17) on Social Safety Nets 1995.

·  Joint-Team Leader, IFPRI Multi Country Project (MP 5) on Rural Financial Markets and Food Security 1994-95.

·  Deputy Team Leader, IFPRI (USAID funded) Food Security and Structural Adjustment Project in Egypt 1993.

Senior Research Economist 1975 – 1988

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad. Pakistan

·  Policy-oriented research into the development problems of Pakistan.

·  Lecturer in Project Appraisal Techniques. Courses conducted thrice a year for mid- to senior-level Government Officials from Pakistan and the Neighboring Countries.

·  Organizer of the Annual International Meetings of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE) between 1985 and 1993. The Annual Meetings attract over five hundred participants from within Pakistan and the international development community including a number of Nobel Laureates.

·  Chief of the Information Dissemination Section PIDE between 1985 to 1993 covering all aspects of information dissemination and outreach including relations with the print and electronic media

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (Partial Listing)

2008 to date Member, Academic Task Force of the South Asia University being set up in New Delhi under the SAARC

2008 to date Member Regional Advisory Group on Agriculture Policy for the Food and Agriculture Organization Asia and Pacific Office in Bangkok

2006 to 2008 Advisor, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

2004-2005 Professor, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad as Higher Education Commission Foreign Faculty Chair in 2004-05

2005 Professor, University of Sargodha as Higher Education Commission Foreign Faculty Chair

2004 Chairman, Government of Pakistan’s 9th 5 Five Year Plan Sub Committee on Poverty Reduction

1992 Chairman, Sub-Committee on "Access to Agricultural Credit" of the Committee on Economic and Social Well-Being, 8th Five Year Plan, Government of Pakistan. Responsibility for devising agricultural credit policy with special emphasis on small farmers and disadvantaged groups.

1987 – 1992 Adjunct Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Taught courses in Applied Econometric Analysis, Project Appraisal, General Equilibrium Analysis and Welfare Economics. Supervised over 100 Masters and 27 M.Phil. dissertations. Was awarded a citation by the Department of Economics for outstanding contribution. Supervised 1 Ph.D. at the Department of Economics, International Islamic University, Islamabad.

1986 Technical Consultant to the National Agriculture Commission of Pakistan. Drafted the main report. Provided technical evaluation of the various sub-committee reports. Authored two chapters: (i) Marketing of Agricultural Products; and (ii) Agricultural Credit, in the published long-term agricultural strategy of Pakistan.

OTHER EXPERIENCE - BROADCASTING

1972 – 1976 English News Commentator, Pakistan Television, Rawalpindi/Islamabad.

1976-1979 English Newscaster, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, (Radio Pakistan).

POSTGRADUATE HONORS AND AWARDS

1. Alumni Leader, Center for Development Studies, Australian National University,

2. President, Economics Society, University of Islamabad, ‘1974-1975

3. Editor, "University Reporter", University of Islamabad, ‘1972-1975’

4. Recipient, Academic Merit Scholarship, University of Islamabad, ‘1973-1975’

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2015 Food Consumption Patterns and Implications for Poverty Reduction in Pakistan. Pakistan Development Review Vol 53 (4) 2015

2010 Rehabilitating Agriculture and Promoting Food Security after 2010 Pakistan Floods: Insights from the South Asian Experience. The Pakistan Development Review. Volume 49, Number 3.(167-192)

2008 Rethinking Development Strategy – The Importance of the Rural Non-Farm Economy in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan. Lahore Journal of Economics. September 2008

2006 Transitions Out of Poverty: Drivers of Real Income Growth for the Poor in Rural Pakistan. Paper Presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Queensland, Australia. August 12-18, 2006 http://purl.umn.edu/25387

2003. “Housing: Opportunity, Security and Empowerment for the Poor”. The Pakistan Development Review. Vol.42, No. 4.

1999 “Rural Poverty and Credit Used: Evidence from Pakistan”. (Principal author) The Pakistan Development Review. Vol.38, No. 4.

1999 “Solving Organizational Problems with Intranet Technology”. (Principal author) The Pakistan Development Review. Vol.38, No. 4.

1998 “Rural Poverty and Land Degradation: A Review of Current State of Knowledge”. (Principal author). The Pakistan Development Review. Vol.37, No.4.

1996. "Food and Nutrition Security in South Asia". (co-author). Journal of Asian Economies. Vol. 7. No. 2

1996. "An Investigation of Technical Inefficiencies of Production of Wheat Farmers in Four Districts in Pakistan". (Co-author). The Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 47 No. 1.

1996. "Access by farm households to credit from formal sources: The case of rural Pakistan. (Principal Author). Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture. Vol 35 No. 3. July - Sept.

1994. "Determinants of Female Time Allocation in Selected Districts of Rural Pakistan". (Co-author). The Pakistan Development Review. April.

1994. "The Role of Infaq in Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan". (Principal Author). The Pakistan Development Review. April.

1993. "Production Functions for Wheat Farmers in Selected Districts in Pakistan: An Application of a Stochastic Frontier Production Function with Time-Varying Inefficiency Effects". (Co-author). The Pakistan Development Review. No.3. Autumn.

1993. "Research on Poverty Statistics in Pakistan: Some Sensitivity Analysis: A Comment". The Pakistan Development Review. No. 4.

1993. "Some Tests for Differences in Consumption Patterns: The Impact of Remittances Using Household Income and Expenditure Survey 1987-1988". (Principal Author). The Pakistan Development Review. No. 4. Winter.

1993. "Capital Labour Substitution in the Large-Scale Food-Processing Industry in Pakistan: Some Recent Evidence". (co-author). The Pakistan Development Review. No. 4. Winter.

1992. "Private Sector Investment and Saving Behavior: The Policy Implications of Capital Account Disaggregation: A Comment". The Pakistan Development Review. No. 4. Winter.

1992. "Rural Poverty in Pakistan: Some Recent Evidence". The Pakistan Development Review. Nos. 3 and 4. (Autumn and Winter).

1991. "The Performance of Foreign and Local Firms in Pakistan: A Comment". The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. 30, Nos. 3 and 4.

1991. "The Role of Institutional Credit in the Agricultural Development of Pakistan". The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. 30, Nos. 3 and 4.

1990. "Employment and Unemployment in Pakistan: A Comment". The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. 29. Nos. 3 and 4.

1990. "An Analysis of Production Relations in the large-scale Textile Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan". (Principal Author). The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. 28, No. 1.

1989. "Differential Access and the Rural Credit Market in Pakistan: Some Recent Evidence". (Principal Author). The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXVIII. No. 4.

1988. "Consumption Pattern of Major Food Items in Pakistan: Provincial Sectoral, and Inter-temporal Differences, 1979-85". (Principal Author). The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXVII. No. 4.

1987. "Rural Poverty in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan: Profiles and Policies: A Comment". The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXVII. No. 4.

1987. "Rural-Urban Differences and the Stability of Consumption Behavior: An Inter-temporal Analysis of the Household Income Expenditure Survey Data for the Period of 1963-85". The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXVII. No. 4.

1987. "Estimation of Elasticities of Substitution for CES and VES Production Functions Using Firm-Level Data for Food-Processing Industries in Pakistan." (co-author). The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXVI. No. 3. Autumn 1987.

1987. "Estimation of Elasticities of Substitution for CES Production Functions using Aggregative Data on Selected Manufacturing Industries in Pakistan." (co-author). The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXVI No. 2. Summer 1987.

1986. "Magnitude and Incidence of Educated Unemployment in Pakistan and the Problems of Waiting: A Comment". The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXV Nos. 3 and 4.

1986. "Choice of Techniques: The Case of Cottonseed Oil-Extraction in Pakistan". The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XXV Nos. 3 and 4. Autumn-Winter.

1977. "A Note on the Edible Oil Milling Sector, Output, Value-Added and Employment." The Pakistan Development Review. Vol. XI No. 4. Winter.

DISSERTATIONS

1985. Choice of Techniques, Elasticity of Substitution and Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

1982. Source Structure and Utilization of Rural Credit and Allied Problems in Pakistan. Unpublished M.A.D.E. Dissertation, Australian University, Canberra, Australia.

BOOKS AUTHORED

2013 Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms: A Strategic Environmental, Poverty and Social Assessment. The World Bank, Washington DC.

1999. Rural Credit and Poverty: The Case of Pakistan. Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.

1994. Pakistan's Economic Performance 1947 to 1993: A Descriptive Analysis. (Principal Author), SURE Publications, Lahore.

BOOKS EDITED

2016 Agriculture and Rural Poverty Reduction in Pakistan.. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC (with David J. Spielman, Sohail Jehangir Malik, Paul Dorosh, and Nuzhat Ahmad) (forthcoming)

1992. Agricultural Strategies in the 1990s: Issues and Policies. Pakistan Association of Agricultural Social Scientists, Islamabad, Pakistan (With Haider, A.S., Z. Hussain, and R., McConnen).

1988. Agricultural Growth and Employment Lectures in Development Economics No.7. by Professor John W. Mellor Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan. (With S.N.H. Naqvi).

1987. Technical and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development. Lectures in Development Economics No.6. by Professor Vernon Ruttan. Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan. (With S.N.H. Naqvi).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

2016 “Poverty, Consumption and Nutrition” in Agriculture and Rural Poverty Reduction in Pakistan. David J. Spielman, Sohail Jehangir Malik, Paul Dorosh, and Nuzhat Ahmad (eds.) (forthcoming). International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC

2010 “Food Supply Challenges and Implications for Food Security” in Hunger Pains: Pakistan’s Food Insecurity. Michael Kugelman and Robert M. Hathaway (Editors). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. www.wilsoncenter.org

2000 “Evaluating Targeted Versus Non-targeted Approaches to Poverty Reduction.” in Evaluation and Poverty Reduction. Osvaldo Feinstein and Robert Picciotto (Editors). The World Bank, Washington, D. C.