Pakistonomy - Episode 80 - Can More Information Build Trust in the State

Pakistonomy

Uzair talks to Dr. Sanval Nasim about research that he has conducted with other academics about ways in which information may or may not build citizen trust in the state. The working paper is available online at this link -https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34736 Dr. Nasim is is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His primary research field is environmental and natural resource economics. His research work includes behavioural experiments on air pollution forecasts and information based pollution mitigation interventions, optimal control modelling of water resources, and cost benefit analysis of clean technology adoption. He obtained his PhD in environmental and natural resource economics from the University of California, Riverside in 2015 and a BA in economics mathematics and in history from Colby College in 2008. Reading Recommendations: - Mastering Metrics by Joshua D. Angrist - Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050 by Nadeem Haque - The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky