Dr. Wajiha Haq

National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

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 and health, climate change and wellbeing, aligned with SDGs. Her work has been published in well-reputed impact factor journals such as Energy Policy, Scientific Reports, Sage Open and PeerJ. She has presented her work in several national and international in-person and virtual conferences conducted in different countries, such as United States, Turkey, Malaysia and United Kingdom, on the various economic issues. She has been selected as academic advisor from Pakistan for SPAR6C and she was invited to attend the annual meeting of it in Germany along with MoCC.

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. 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 like PLOS one and local journal like NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. She has taught and supervised many 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 and Monetary Economics.