State Bank of Pakistan is organizing Zahid Husain Memorial Lecture (21st in series) titled, “State Capabilities on Delivering Higher Economic Growth” on Monday 12 December, 2016 at a local hotel in Karachi. Mr. Timothy John Besley will be keynote speaker. Mr. Besley is Monetary Policy Committee Member of Bank of England, professor of Economics and Political Science and W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at London School of Economics (LSE), UK.

It may be mentioned here that on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the State Bank of Pakistan in 1973, the Central Board of Directors decided to institute an annual series of lectures delivered by eminent economist and financial experts and to name the series after the Bank’s first Governor Zahid Husain.