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SESSION 2: What is productivity and why are we obsessed with it?
Dr. Hadia Majid will focus on ‘Productivity and its obsession'
Join her and participate in an interactive 75-minutes session.
What you will learn:
- Develop an understanding of the economic meaning of productivity and how it is measured.
- Analyze where the emphasis on economic productivity comes from.
- Critically assess how economic productivity is relevant to our understanding of how societies are structured and the ‘value’ we place on various activities.
Dr. Hadia Majid is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at LUMS. Her research agenda considers the impact of monetary and public resource constraints on individuals in Pakistan with a special focus on women’s access to decent, empowering work. She has published in international journals and is currently editing a book titled Gender at Work in Pakistan. She has received grants from several agencies including ESRC-DFID, Oxfam, IDRC, IGC, IFPRI among others and has acted as a consultant for numerous government and non-governmental agencies on gendered labor market outcomes. A Fulbright scholar, she has a PhD from The Ohio State University and MSc from University of Warwick.
DON'T MISS THE SESSION!!!
Friday, Feb 17, 2023
Section 1: 10:00 - 11:15 am
Section 2: 03:00 - 04:15 pm
Friday, Feb 24, 2023
Section 3: 10:00 - 11:15 am
Section 4: 03:00 - 04:15 pm