Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) is a policy research institute registered as a nonprofit limited company in Pakistan. Focusing on issues of poverty and inequality, governance, gender, climate and pro-poor macro-economic policy, it contributes to the national goal of social development through research, policy advice and advocacy. Established in 1995, SPDC has made significant intellectual contribution in placing issues of pro-poor growth and social development on Pakistan's policy-making agenda. With its headquarters based in Karachi, SPDC has recently established its outreach office in Islamabad.
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Pakistan's economy is confronted with a severe economic crisis, which is characterized by high levels of inflation, low economic activity, low foreign reserves, a depreciating currency, and enormous public finance imbalances. The prevailing political uncertainty is further contributing to the proble ...
2023-08-14 | Research Report
Fiscal and monetary policies are in contradiction with each other which has negative implications for achieving the macroeconomic and fiscal targets presented by the government in the Federal Budget 2023-24. The budget portrays a weak resource mobilization strategy where net revenue receipts of the ...
2023-06-22 | Others
Pakistan's economy is confronted with a severe economic crisis, which is characterized by high levels of inflation, low economic activity, low foreign reserves, a depreciating currency, and enormous public finance imbalances. The prevailing political uncertainty is further contributing to the proble ...
2023-06-20 | Research and Policy Brief
During the current fiscal year, the government has demonstrated its commitment to curbing cigarette consumption in Pakistan by increasing rates of Federal Excise Duty (FED) on cigarettes. ...
2023-06-06 | Research and Policy Brief
The current fiscal year has been unusual for cigarette tax policy in Pakistan. The government took commendable measures of substantially increasing the rates of Federal Excise Duty (FED) on cigarettes, which was unprecedented in two aspects. First, the tax changes were made three times during the on ...
2023-05-20 | Research and Policy Brief
The main objective of this research is to study the consumption patterns of cigarette smokers. The survey provides information on the price and non-price drivers of cigarette consumption behaviour and explores the impact of price changes on consumption. The study is based on a survey of households w ...
2023-03-06 | Research Report
This policy brief summarizes the results of a nationally representative survey of more than 7,500 current and past smokers. The research objective was to study smokers' consumption behaviour in response to tax-induced price changes. ...
2023-02-22 | Research and Policy Brief
The main objective of this research is to study the consumption patterns of cigarette smokers. The survey provides information on the price and non-price drivers of cigarette consumption behaviour and explores the impact of price changes on consumption. The study is based on a survey of households w ...
2023-02-22 | Research Report
Islamabad : Tobacco use has a significant impact on the economic costs...
Waseem Saleem, Senior Economist at Social Policy and Development Centr...
Speakers at a media awareness session here on Wednesday said the highe...
Pakistan’s major tobacco industry caused a whopping loss of Rs153 bi...
The Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) is funded by the Economics for Health team (formerly Tobacconomics) at Johns Hopkins University (previously housed at University of Illinois Chicago, or UIC) to conduct economic research on tobacco taxation. JHU is a partner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. SPDC also provides technical assistance to Research Reports/Working Papers An Analysis of the Tobacco Market in Jordan: A Household Survey [202 ...
An Assessment of the Ba-Himmat Buzurg Programme [2024] – Research Report Supported by GIZ Pakistan Assessing the Prospects of SOS Children's Village in Tharparkar [2022] Supported by SOS Children's Villages Interactive Dialogues on Countering Violent Extremism [2019-2021] – The Composite Report Supported by DAI Pakistan Socio-Economic Costs of Violence against Women and Girls in Pakistan [2016-2019] – Summary Report Supported by the National University of Galway, ...
Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC), the University of Karachi and the Social Policy and Develo...
Tobacconomics Regional Think Tank Partners Meeting was held on November 14-16, 2023, at the Hotel Sheraton City Center, Istanbul, Türkiye. The meeting was organized by the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) under the project "Accelerating Progress on Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countr More ..
Event Date: 14/11/2023
The Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC) and the Social Policy Development Centre (SPDC) jointly organized a panel discussion on ‘Policy Choices During the Economic Crisis and Beyond’. The event was held on May 23, 2023 at University of Karachi. The panelists included Mr. Muhammad Asif Iqbal More ..
Event Date: 25/05/2023
Fiscal and monetary policies are in contradiction with each other which has negative implications for achieving the macroeconomic and fiscal targets presented by the government in the Federal Budget 2023-24. The budget portrays a weak resource mobilization strategy where net revenue receipts of the More ..
Event Date: 21/06/2023
The Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) hosted a webinar on 'The Impact of Tobacco Use on Household Consumption Patterns in Pakistan' on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Purpose of the webinar was to share the findings of recent research work of SPDC on the above mentioned topic. The study explor More ..
Event Date: 26/08/2020
Interactive Dialogue - Governance Failure and Violent Extremism Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) organized an interactive dialogue titled; “Governance Failure and Violent Extremism,” on March 11, 2020 at Avari Towers, Karachi. The dialogue was the second in the series of informe More ..
Event Date: 11/03/2023
Interactive Dialogue - Unemployment, Youth and Violent Extremism Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) organized an interactive dialogue titled; “Unemployment, Youth and Violent Extremism,” on January 15, 2020 at Avari Towers, Karachi. The dialogue was the second in the series of inf More ..
Event Date: 15/01/2020
