Summary

Dr Wajiha Haq has completed her PhD from University of Malaya, Malaysia under Faculty Development Program of NUST. She is currently serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NUST. Her PhD dissertation was focused on debt and financial wellbeing in Pakistan. Most of her work is aligned on the different dimensions of economic well-being aligned with SDGs. Apart from frequently publishing on financial wellbeing and household resource allocation in well reputed impact factor national and international journals, she recently published on various aspects of economic wellbeing linked with gender equality, health and wellbeing, in context of COVID-19, aligned with SDGs. She has mastered in analyzing large national representative datasets such as PSLM, MICS and DHS. However, she has expertise in questionnaire development, primary data collection and data validation as well. She is also leading a funded project to investigate the poverty of working-class group. Her current research is focused on health related issues such as stunting, malnutrition, food insecurity leading to poverty. Most of her research utilizes national representative surveys. She has presented her work in several international conferences on the various economic issues. She is extending her editorial services for many international impact factor journals and NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. She has supervised dissertations at both at undergraduate and graduate level. She has taught a wide range of courses related to Economics and Finance in her teaching career including Research Methodology, Applied Econometrics, Poverty and Income distribution, Environmental Economics, Seminar in Applied Economics, Public Finance, Financial Economics, Public Finance and Monetary Economics.

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