Rate My Professor Sidra Iqbal

Sidra Iqbal currently holds the position of Senior Administrator in the Student Administration team within the Academic Division at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. She supports academic services and student experience initiatives. Iqbal earned her Master of Science degree in Economics from the Department of Economics, which is part of the Otago Business School at the University of Otago, completing it in August 2022. Her master's thesis, entitled "Human Capital & Labour Productivity in SMEs: A Case Study of South Asian Countries," was supervised by Dr. Murat Genc and Dr. Arlene Ozanne. The research investigates the impact of human capital on labour productivity in small and medium-sized enterprises in South Asian countries.

Prior to her administrative role at Otago, Sidra Iqbal served as a Lecturer in Economics at the Bahauddin Zakariya University Sub-Campus in Sahiwal, Pakistan, and received a scholarship from Pakistan's Higher Education Commission to pursue PhD studies in Economics at the University of Otago. Her PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. Murat Genc, is titled "Firms, human capital, and productivity." Iqbal maintains an active research profile affiliated with the Department of Economics at the University of Otago, with 11 publications on ResearchGate accumulating 20 citations. Notable publications include "Spillovers of Education and Job Training in Bringing Sustainable Economic Development in Pakistan: The Role of Research and Development Revisited" (2022), "DUAL SECTOR INFLATION DYNAMICS IN PAKISTAN: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS USING COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS" (2022), "EMPIRICAL LINKAGES BETWEEN EDUCATION, POVERTY, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE GROWTH EMPIRICS OF PAKISTAN" (2022), "Time and frequency domain causality Testing: The causal linkages Revisited between Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth in Pakistan" (2021), "Structural Changes in Employment Diversification in Pakistan: Assessing the Role of Sectoral Employment Elasticities in Employment Generation" (2021), and "Role of Educational attainment in Married Women’s Entry into and Escape from Labor Force in Pakistan" (2021). Her work focuses on economic issues in Pakistan such as education spillovers, inflation dynamics, poverty alleviation, fiscal policy effects, employment patterns, and female labor participation.