This paper is reflective of an attempt to construct a temporal profile of emigration from Pakistan over the past five … to labour exodus is based on either the censuses of the receiving countries or the registration data of Pakistan. The … themselves. Similarly it is difficult to capture all the financial flows (remittances) associated with emigration. Non official …

The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re …-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see … whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were in fact justified. An examination of the trends in rural poverty into …

This paper has the following objectives: • To provide information on Pakistan’s economy, labour and demography … on how best to support the implementation of the National Skills Strategy for Pakistan. The Paper briefly covers areas … and issues in Pakistan’s TVET system – its governance and provision, labour market context, state of education and …

decline in Pakistan during the early 1970s. Because of the low level of contraceptive use recorded in that survey, the …

varying procedures for estimation. Planning Commission of Pakistan suggested an official poverty line in terms of minimum …Multidimensionality of poverty defies a neat demarcation. Often several but not separable meanings can be attributed to … poverty which essentially should encompass totality of deprivation experienced by an individual or group of individuals …

This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a … (PLM) project of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics/International Labour Organization. In addition to the …

This paper is in two parts. Part I is essentially a comparison with the results of the Pakistan Fertility Survey(1970 …

Admittedly the rural non-farm sector has immense contribution to the growth, employment generation and poverty … the economy is not made in general, Pakistan being no exception. Partly the data limitations explain the relative neglect … analysis. In this study an attempt is made to provide some ideas regarding the size and structure of RNF sector in Pakistan …

poverty in rural areas of Pakistan. This characterization of poverty is expected to yield insights regarding the link between … incidence of poverty and capacity of the poor to participate in the development process - essentially a function of the power … classification is useful in understanding the nexus between access to assets and poverty of an household. The calorie deficiency …