This paper studies the impact of changes in the external balance of Pakistan. We explain why the economic growth … achieved during the past decade was highly dependent on improvements in the external balance. Between 2001 and 2007, Pakistan … benefited from an increase in remittances, foreign assistance from bilateral and multilateral sources, and a relatively stable …

The main focus of this study is Rural Punjab and it contributes to regional poverty research in two ways; first, using … a more recent household survey data, carried out in August 2007 by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE …), it provides fresh poverty estimates for the rural areas of the Punjab. Second, the poverty differential across the agro …

industrialization on poverty. It is concluded that industrial development in Pakistan has historically been heavily dependent on …Public policy is aimed at increasing the efficiency of the industrial sector in Pakistan. This paper looks at four … policy making. Thirdly, I have briefly discussed the history of policies implemented in Pakistan. Lastly, I have discussed …

poverty in the Punjab at the level of sub-provincial regions and districts. This estimation has been made possible because of … district-level. Estimates suggest the existence of a high poverty enclave in the south and the west regions of the Punjab. The … incidence and severity of poverty in a majority of districts in thisenclave, with a few exceptions, is extremely high with one …

The structural transformation of Pakistan’s economy has not been accompanied by a concomitant decline in the proportion … challenges of poverty, food security, agricultural growth and rural development, thissector has received inadequate attention in … Survey of Pakistan 2005 and the Surveys of Domestic Commerce 2007 – this paper attempts to analyze the factors underlying the …

populations. Finally, food price inflation can lead to significant increases in Pakistani poverty levels: For Pakistan as a whole … and the most vulnerable to these price shocks are the poorest segments of society. In countries like Pakistan, the … discussion has focused onthe impact of substantially higher food and fuel prices on poverty. This paper used PSLM and MICS …

1992/93 and 2007/08 in Pakistan. The results show that growth and inequality play significant roles in affecting poverty … poverty, income inequality, and growth using pooled data from eight household income and expenditure surveys conducted between … positive impact on inequality. The results also show that the absolute magnitude of net growth elasticity of poverty is smaller …

The aim of this study is to explore if effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) alone on poverty in Pakistan during … accountability. For the estimation of effects of FDI on poverty, Linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) as well as Non … dissimilar on poverty. FDI is found to be unfavorable for poverty alleviation. The findings are even trivial when used with …

accounted to 29 % of their GDP in 2020. There is a strong need to investigate the impact of foreign remittances upon poverty …. This study has empirically investigated the impact of remittances on poverty in Kyrgyzstan by taking the variables like … remittances, poverty size, capital formation, per capita GDP, savings, and unemployment for the period of 2008-2019. Ordinary …