Siddiqui, Rizwana; Kemal, A. R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
- on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reduction in the absence of a decline in … remittances reduces poverty, as measured by the head count, poverty gap, and severity ratios (FGT indicators) in both the rural … year. According to all FGT indicators, poverty increases in urban households but not in rural households. The combined …