Khan Muhammad Azam
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| Khan Muhammad Azam | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 May 1931 Jamalpur, Punjab, British India |
| 💀Died | 4 June 2021 (aged 90) Lahore, Pakistan4 June 2021 (aged 90) |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Pakistani (post-1947) British Indian (pre-1947) |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur (now University of Agriculture, Faisalabad; Government College, Lahore (now Government College University, Lahore; Trinity College, Oxford; Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore; University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 💼 Occupation | agricultural economist, UN diplomat, author |
| Known for | Agricultural economics, Green Revolution |
| 👶 Children | 4 |
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Khan Muhammad Azam (Urdu: خان محمد اعظم ) (6 May 1931 – 4 June 2021) was a Pakistani agricultural economist, United Nations diplomat, author, and scholar.
Early life and family[edit]
K.M. Azam was born on 6 May 1931 in a landed Muslim Rajput family in Jamalpur, Pathankot District, Punjab, British India. His father, Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan, was the founder of the Dar-ul-Islam Trust Institutes in Jamalpur, British India and Jauharabad, Pakistan.
In 1947, during the Partition of India, he migrated with his family to the newly-created Pakistan.
Azam was the son-in-law of Rai Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi.
Education[edit]
Azam was educated at the Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur (now University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (1947-1953); Government College, Lahore (now Government College University, Lahore (1953-1954); Trinity College, Oxford (1954-1958); the Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore (1968); and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1969-1970).
At Oxford, Azam worked as an advanced student at the University of Oxford Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AERI) under the guidance of Professor Colin Clark (Director, AERI) and Professor Ann Martin, and was the President of the Ikhwan-as-Safa Club, and a member of the Oxford Committee of World University Service, the executive committee of the Oxford University Islamic Union, and the Oxford Majlis (now Oxford Majlis Society).
At Wisconsin, Azam was the President of the Pakistani Students Association (PSA).
Career[edit]
Azam served with ICI Pakistan Limited from 1960 to 1966 as a member of its senior management staff, looking after chemicals distribution and the company's wide agricultural interests. During this period, he also held honorary appointments on a number of government committees.
In 1966, Azam joined the West Pakistan Agricultural Development Corporation (WPADC) as the Director, Planning & Evaluation Division, and was associated with the formulation of a number of agricultural policies and development projects. He remained with WPADC till its dissolution in 1972.[1][2]
In 1972, Azam was deputed to the National Bank of Pakistan where he served as Senior Vice President and Director of Agricultural Projects.
In 1973, Azam was appointed as a Chief in the Planning Commission of Pakistan with responsibility for the Agriculture & Food Section and Projects Wing and, in that capacity, also served as a member of the High Agricultural Committee of the Government of Pakistan.
In 1975, Azam was deputed to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as the FAO's Regional Agricultural Economist for the Near East at Cairo, Egypt where he remained until 1980.
In 1980, Azam was appointed as a Senior Economist in the Joint ESCWA/FAO Agriculture Division in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), one of five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He served as Senior Economist at UNESCWA in Beirut, Lebanon (1980-82), Baghdad, Iraq (1982-1991), and Amman, Jordan (1991-93). During this period, Azam participated in important missions to a large number of Arab and Muslim countries and was responsible for the organization of a number of regional expert and inter-governmental meetings. Azam remained with the United Nations until his retirement in 1993.
Azam remained a Visiting Lecturer in Agricultural Planning and Project Analysis at the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) (now National Institute of Management) in Pakistan, the Institute of National Planning (INP), Cairo, Egypt, and the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), Ankara, Turkey (a subsidiary organ of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)), and an external examiner of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Accolades and recognition[edit]
In his foreword to Azam's book, Planning and Economic Growth (with Special Reference to Agriculture), published in 1968, Colin Clark, Director of the University of Oxford Agricultural Economics Research Institute, wrote:
Though a number of years have since elapsed, I have vivid and pleasant recollections of Mr. Azam during the time he was at Oxford. He was a member of Trinity College, a small and exclusive college, and perpetual rival to Balliol College, especially in the production of witticisms and practical jokes. His family background, coming from a large, successful and up-to-date farm, strongly distinguished him from many of his contemporary fellow-students from Asian countries, enabling him to blend his academic studies with some of the outlook, practical, relaxed, and decisive, of the good business man.
In his book, Mr. Azam has brought together papers on a remarkable variety of topics. Their preparation, at a time when he had many other onerous duties to perform, says a good deal both for his industry and for his freshness of outlook. He develops many strikingly new ideas, not all of which would necessarily have my support, though at the same time I am very glad they are so thoroughly discussed, and their case so convincingly presented.
In addition to his achievements as an economist and administrator, Mr. Azam has shown a wisdom and breadth of outlook regarding more general questions of social and public welfare which is to be found, one regrets to say, among few economists now, in these days of excessive specialisation.
— Colin Clark, Oxford, July 1967[3]
Publications[edit]
Azam authored eleven books, over forty research papers, and over 200 newspaper articles and columns, and has been widely quoted in agricultural economics and development economics publications worldwide.
Books[edit]
- Azam, K.M., Pakistan: Sach Ki Talash (Pakistan: In Search of Truth), Lahore: Jumhoori Publications, 2014 (447 pp, Urdu) ISBN 978-9698455705 Search this book on
. - Azam, K.M., Hayat-e-Sadeed: Bani-e-Dar ul Islam Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan (A Righteous Life: Founder of Dar ul Islam Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan), Lahore: Nashriyat, 2010 (583 pp., Urdu) ISBN 978-969-8983-58-1 Search this book on .
- Azam, K.M., Istekham-e-Pakistan, 2006 (248 pp., Urdu) ISBN 978-9648006308 Search this book on . ASIN 964800630X
- Azam, K.M., Pakistan: Economy, Politics, Philosophy & Religion, Karachi: Royal Book Company, 2002 (406 pp., English) ISBN 969-407-277-8 Search this book on . ASIN 9694072778
- Azam, K.M., Economics and Politics of Development: An Islamic Perspective, Karachi: Royal Book Company, 1988 (228 pp., English) ISBN 969-407-079-1 Search this book on .
- Azam, K.M., Planning and Economic Growth (with Special Reference to Agriculture), Lahore: Maktaba-tul-Arafat, 1968 (193 pp., English) (with a foreword by Professor Colin Clark, Director, University of Oxford Agricultural Economics Research Institute) OCLC 560651289
Research papers[edit]
Azam authored or co-authored the following research papers:
- Khan, M. A.; Naeem-Ur-Rehman, Khattak (2009). "Effects of economic factors on Foreign Direct Investment inflow: evidence from Pakistan (1971-2005)" (PDF). Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. 25 (1): 135–140.
- Azam, K.M. (April 1979). "The role of a public corporation in development: An evaluation of the West Pakistan agricultural development corporation". Agricultural Administration. 6 (2): 81–87. doi:10.1016/0309-586X(79)90023-2.
- Azam, K. M. (1973). "The Future of the Green Revolution in West Pakistan: A Choice of Strategy". International Journal of Agrarian Affairs. 51 (6): 404–429. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.230321.
- K. M. Azam (1959) Mechanisation and Factors of production in Agriculture and their Productivity by 2:12, 9–15
References[edit]
- ↑ Azam, K.M. (April 1979). "The role of a public corporation in development: An evaluation of the West Pakistan agricultural development corporation". Agricultural Administration. 6 (2): 81–87. doi:10.1016/0309-586X(79)90023-2.
- ↑ https://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/1969/Volume4/419-425.pdf[full citation needed]
- ↑ Azam, K.M., Planning and Economic Growth (with Special Reference to Agriculture), Lahore: Maktaba-tul-Arafat, 1968 (193 pp., English)
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