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For detailed instructions on how to writeup a PROPOSAL for M.Phil/Ph.D. -- see IIIE Student Guide. For course outlines and lectures for several courses of mine, see: TEN COURSES>

Current RM Workshop is Fall 2013: Female Campus Sep 2013 to Jan 2014

Previous Class was: Spring 2013: Jan 2013 to June 2013 joint class via video-conferencing.

This website was made for original class in Jan 2010. [link on side panel]

Taped lectures for both of the above, as well as some earlier workshops are available: HERE 

Writeups and Outlines of these videotaped lectures are available HERE

This site is using about 100% of 100MB and no additions can be made to it. 

Zubia Azeem is working on organizing PREVIOUS VERSION OF COURSE: RM 2010

Videotapes of Lectures are available at: [link]

A summary of the Research Methods lectures is attached below; it was prepared by a student. Updates welcome -- send to me. 

ONLY 100MB is storage capacity of this site, and it was 97% used. I have now create a NEW WEBSITE for additional materials. This new site address is:

https://sites.google.com/site/iiierm2/

LINKS to websites containing information about Project Evaluation and Research Methods.

IIIE Research Methods 2. 

Please do not make any further additions on this website, as it is nearly full. Do all additions to the NEW website, which will have the capacity.

A new website has been created for Thesis Writers:

IIIE Thesis Writers 

Karey na jag mein alaa-o tau shair kis masraf

Karey na sheher mein jal thal tau chasm-enam kyaa hai

What good is a verse that does not light up the world?

What good a tearful eye if it does not wash away the city?

– Faiz Ahmed Faiz

READ one of the following textbooks listed below:

Textbooks: 

1. An Introduction to Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency

2. What Counts:  Social Accounting For NonProfits and Cooperatives

   1. Small is Beautiful, by E. F. Schumacher

   2. Amartya Sen's book on Poverty and Famines.

Data Sources: (links to various data sources for Pakistan and others)

Useful Books with Download Links: Reading List

List of former Students, with Links to separate pages containing proposals for each student.

Research Topics: Readings and Links to Relevant Literature

Technical Topics; Learning Materials:

• 1. CGE [Computable General Equilibrium) Models: Fundamental Concepts.

1. Data Envelopment Analysis: DEA

Some Particular Research Areas of Interest

1. The Controversy between GNP per Capita and Human Development Approaches.

2. Different Approaches to Defining and Measuring Poverty

3. Free Markets versus "Socialism"

4. Privatization: Good or Bad?

5. Money & Scarcity

Interesting Readings on Alternative Topics: 

• 1. Pharmaceutical Industry: Readings

  2. Language of Education: Readings

  3. Food Security: Readings

1. Educational Policy for Pakistan

Islamic Economics and Some Fundamental Conceptual Issues:

• 1. My main website on Islamic Economics.

  2. Islamic Economics; A Survey of the Literature

  3. Lectures on Islamic Economics.[recommended as starting point]