Nobel prize 2009 for economics
First woman win Nobel Economics Prize
Stockholm, Oct 13: Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the
Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research seen as highly topical in
the wake of the economic crisis and amid efforts to tackle climate
change. Fellow US economist Oliver Williamson shared the
10-million-kronor ($1.42-million) prize with Ms Ostrom, whose name has
circulated for years as a possible winner. Ms Ostrom told
Swedish television her first reaction was "great surprise and
appreciation" and said she was "in shock" at being the first woman to
clinch the honour.Ms Ostrom describes herself as a political scientist
instead of an economist and is a professor at Indiana University, where
she researches the management of common property or property under
common control, such as natural resources. Her work
challenged the notion that common property is poorly managed and should
be either regulated by central authorities or privatised, the jury
said. "If we want to halt the degradation of our natural
environment and prevent a repetition of the many collapses of
natural-resource stocks experienced in the past, we should learn from
the successes and failures of common-property regimes," it said.
Mr Williamson, a professor at the University of California Berkeley,
was honoured with the other half of the prize "for his analysis of
economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm."
He has studied the existence of large firms and argued that
hierarchical organisations represent alternative governance structures
which differ in their approaches to resolving conflicts of interest.
"According to Williamson's theory, large private corporations exist
primarily because they are efficient.... When corporations fail to
deliver efficiency gains, their existence will be called in question,"
the jury said. Landis Gabel, a senior economics and
management professor at top French business school INSEAD and who
studied under Prof Williamson in the 1970s, said the choice of Prof
Williamson and Ms Ostrom was 'timely'. -AFP
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Punjab University campaign to increase PhD teachers
Lahore: As part of the Punjab University campaign to increase number of quality
PhD teachers, Vice Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran on Monday called a
meeting of the non-PhD lecturers and assistant professors of the
Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Faculty of Social and Behavioural
Sciences. The meeting also discussed that some teachers were
facing visa problems after their admission to the universities of the
United Kingdom and decided that a letter from the VC office would be
sent to the Foreign Office and UK Embassy to expedite the visa cases of
PU teachers. The VC motivated the teachers to get admission to
foreign varsities as soon as possible. He told the young teachers that
Rs 65 million had been allocated for the Faculty Development Programme
and if required, this amount would be increased up to Rs 80 million. He
said non-PhD teachers should get benefit from this opportunity and
besides this they should also apply for foreign scholarships and the
Higher Education Commission scholarships. Dr Mujahid Kamran said out of
total 775 regular and contract teachers only 250 were PhDs with a 32
percentage, adding that PU was striving to increase this number. He
urged the teachers to get admission to the varsities of China, Germany,
Malaysia, Russia, Sweden and other countries where higher education was
comparatively less expensive as compared to the US and the UK. He
said special attention was also being given towards strengthening of
the local PhD programme. The teachers currently doing PhDs in the PU
were offered that they under split programme with foreign varsities
might do their research in foreign varsities where research work
closely related to their subject was in progress. Pro
Vice-Chancellor Dr Jamil Anwar Ch and Controller Examinations Dr Zahid
Karim Khan also motivated the young teachers and ensured their all-out
cooperation in this regard. Over 40 teachers from both the faculties
attended the meeting.
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Good result in Mass Com exams
Lahore: The Mass Communication Department of Government MAO College produced
good results in Mass Communication Part-I Examinations 2008-10
organized by the Punjab University. A press release said Aiza Nawaz of
the department secured 368 marks out of total 500; similarly Sabahat
Butt secured 365 marks while Adnan Ahmed Khan secured 363 marks.
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PU orientation
Lahore: Annual orientation ceremony for the new students of BCom and MCom of
the Punjab University (PU) Hailey College of Commerce was held on
Monday. PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran urged the students to
develop reading habits and become subject specialists in their areas of
interests. He also said instead of negative competition, there should
be healthy and positive competition among the students. The VC said it
was a matter of proud that many graduates of PU College of Commerce
were serving at key positions in foreign and national financial
institutions. The college principal, Dr Liaquat Ali, said, "Training
was a very compulsory part of education system and we at Hailey College
try to give proper training to our students."
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PU wins contest
Lahore: The Punjab University has won the All Pakistan Bilingual Declamation
Contest organised by the University of Engineering and Technology
(UET), Taxila, from October 10-11, 2009. According to a press statement
issued on Monday, PU College of Pharmacy student Syed Sahmaoon Ahmad
and Institute of Communication Studies student Touseef Ahmad Sabih
participated in English and Urdu categories respectively and clinched
first positions. Moreover, both the students were also declared the
best speakers in English and Urdu as well. The news
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