This paper applies Alkire & Foster (2007) approach for measuring the multidimensional poverty. The data set used in the …, expenditure, sanitation, housing and education are respectively the major contributors among overall multidimensional poverty. …

suggested in the empirical literature on poverty and income inequality. An attempt is also made to determine the relative … contribution of economic growth and distribution of income to changes in poverty. Various episodes of growth are considered during …

The paper assesses the extent of household vulnerability to poverty in Pakistan. Preferably, household panel data of … vulnerability as “expected poverty” using cross-sectional household surveys. The estimates show that about 52 percent population was … vulnerable to poverty during 2004-05. The rural headcount ratio in terms of household vulnerability is relatively high as …

poverty and distribution of income. It also includes information on household composition, schooling, labour market, sources …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

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 …

Since the seminal work of Sen, it has been acknowledged that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon and the … unprecedented availability of relevant data has renewed interest in the multidimensionality of the poverty. The purpose of present … study is to estimate the multidimensional poverty in Pakistan by using the data of Pakistan Social and Living Standard …

This study assesses the impact of economic growth on absolute poverty in Pakistan over the last four decades. The paper … distribution of income within the poor to determine the sensitivity of different income groups, below the poverty line, to economic …. Although it was strongly pro poor in the 1980’s and pro poor in the 2000s, growth in the 1970s was neutral for poverty whereas …

Development Goals (MDGs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) enormously emphasize on human capital for curbing poverty … poverty at medium sized city in Pakistan such as Sargodha. A survey-based analysis was carried out on a sample of 330 … households. Poverty status of the individual is defined by using adjusted official poverty line. Results show that education and …

The report presents the results of Poverty Mapping Analysis for Pakistan with the help of Geographical Information … Pakistan. The Poverty Mapping GIS has been developed using two data sets namely Pakistan Socio Economic Survey 2001 and … objective is to map poverty incidence and its indicators at district level to compare the similarities and differences between …