rural income subsidy on migration and urban employment. Also, the welfare effect of a subsidy transfer from urban to rural …After giving an overview of the state of migration policy in developing countries with special reference to Pakistan … this paper essentially revisits the issue of policy and its effect on rural to urban migration under an extended family …

end has a positive effect on new migration which comes specifically through a greater flow of remittance income from the …Literature on migration and network effects suggests that the rate of migration is positively related to the extent or … lead to more migration from the hinterland. This counter intuitive result is generated as a consequence of juxtaposing an …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are … examined for 11 countries, with a major focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC), India, and Indonesia, which are …

domestic product, a measure of average income, stood at Rs.20200 for 2006-07 which falls behind the national average by about …, various studies concluded that economic growth was the most critical factor for reduction of incidence of poverty in the state … poised for a take-off to a high growth phase, almost similar to that at the national level. On the poverty dimension, however …

This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age 10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is … based on Labour Force Surveys 1996-2006. The findings of the study show that overtime internal migration (age 10 years and … above) remained unchanged. Female migrants dominate in internal migration (age 10 years and above). In case of female …

indicators for family welfare not only in terms of its investment and income generation prospects but also, and perhaps more … importantly given pervasive borrowing constraints and limited social security coverage, because it provides protection from income …