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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …