Rate My Professor Iftikhar Ahmad

Dr. Ahmad's primary research areas include governance, public policy, National Finance Commission (NFC), fiscal federalism, and local governance. His secondary interests encompass special economic zones (SEZs), sustainable development goals (SDGs), environmental issues, conflict, and terrorism, with regional focus on China regarding SEZs and India on resource distribution mechanisms. Key publications include 'A Critical Path to Fiscal Federalism: Policy Imperatives for the NFC Award Remake' (2026), 'Fiscal Resource Distribution: Criteria, Incentives and Institutional Mechanism. A Comparison between Neighbors' (2025), 'Resource Distribution Mechanism in Pakistan: A Critical Review' (2025), 'Assessing Fiscal Resource Distribution in Pakistan - The NFC Awards' (2024), 'Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan: Need for a Revisit' (2024), 'Local Government Reforms: An Overview' (2024), 'SME Sector in Pakistan: Mapping the Policy Framework, Opportunities and Constraints' (2022), 'Pakistan’s Income Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2022 aka “Industrial Policy Package”' (2022), 'Fiscal Federalism' (2021), and 'Endurance or Submission: How Terrorism Frame Households’ Time Allocation?' (2021). His contributions inform policy debates on fiscal resource distribution and economic development in Pakistan.