foreign inflows on poverty reduction in Pakistan through the channel of health, education and other indicators related to … whole have increased poverty levels in Pakistan. At disaggregated levels, we found that foreign assistance is the major … growth. The importance of foreign inflow in Pakistan is very well acknowledged and documented, however the affect of these …

poverty in Pakistan. It begins by reviewing the economy, which reveals that during the Nineties although import tariffs were … reduced by 55 percent, poverty however remained higher in this period than in the Eighties. At the same time, Pakistan has … decline in remittances in a CGE framework with all the features necessary for trade policy analysis with poverty and …

$13.186 billion by June 2012, with expatriates in Saudi Arabia sending more remittances to Pakistan than from anywhere … migrant as the most important factor affecting the level of remittances to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia. In addition, the study … implementing migration and remittance policies, but has a stronger role to play in influencing the flow of remittances to Pakistan …

This study attempts to uncover the biases in the impact evaluation of remittances when the problems relating to … selection bias and counter factual are not taken into account. Taking migration as an intervention and foreign remittances as an … accumulation which, directly and indirectly, affect households’ welfare, poverty incidence and growth prospects of a country. Using …

to reduce poverty in rural Pakistan. The present study attempts to analyze the impact of socioeconomic and demographic …Poverty is a complex phenomenon based on a network of interlocking economic, social, political, and demographic factors …. An understanding of the extent, nature, and determinants of rural poverty is a precondition for effective public policy …

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 …

While schooling outcomes for girls have improved over the period 2001–11, progress has been uneven within Pakistan … secondary school enrollments for girls. We use data from the Pakistan Integrated Household Survey for 2001/02 and the Pakistan …

to derive implications for targeting poverty reduction policies toward vulnerable households. As illustration, various … measures of vulnerability proposed in the literature are applied to a panel data-set collected from rural Pakistan. The … information is useful in targeting poverty reduction policies. Since the nature of vulnerability is diverse, it is advisable to …

This paper analyses the patterns of and the challenges for youth employment in Pakistan, and examines whether these … many of the challenges to youth employment in Pakistan are not youth-specific. Policies should thus emphasise broader …

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 …