Pakistan’s Accelerating Urbanization

November 6th, 2013 // 9:00am — 4:00pm

Event Speakers:
  • Murtaza Haider

    • Ryerson University
  • Sania Nishtar

    • Heartfile
  • Nadeem Ul Haque

    • Center for Growth, Creativity,
    and Entrepreneurship
  • Mohammad Qadeer

    • Queens University
  • Nadeem Hussain

    • Tameer Microfinance Bank

  • Aun Rahman

    • Harvard University

  • Ahsan Iqbal

    • Minister for Planning, Development,
    and Reforms, Government of Pakistan
  • Tasneem Siddiqui

    • Saiban

    Event Summary

    Pakistan’s future will largely be written in its cities. Today about a third of Pakistan’s population is urban-based, but that figure is expected to increase to nearly 50 percent within a dozen years. Recent data shows that Karachi’s population grew by 80 percent between 2000 and 2010—the largest such increase of any city in the world. Pakistan’s accelerating urbanization presents huge challenges but simultaneously offers the country a way out of its present multiple dilemmas.

    The express purpose of this conference is to generate new ideas and methods those that go beyond calls for more public funding for dealing with a phenomenon that is already well in place and is not going to be halted.

    This conference has been organized by the Wilson Center’s Asia Program, with co-sponsorship from the Comparative Urban Studies Project and with generous support from the Fellowship Fund for Pakistan.

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    Location

    5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center

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