The Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Draft Medium Term Development Framework recognize that the most … played a vital if not a decisive role in influencing poverty levels in Pakistan. The second part of the paper reviews the … effective means of reducing poverty is through the creation of productive and remunerative employment. This paper examines how …

poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the … debate by empirically examining the poverty-alleviation effects of one of the largest targeted programs in the world: the … survey dataset covering the 1993-2009 period, this research investigates the impact of the MLSA on poverty alleviation. The …

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 … Pakistan. ARDL bound testing approach to co-integration confirms the existence of long run relationship among the variables of … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that …

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 …

Pakistan is used to conduct simulations in order to assess the impact of an increase in foreign capital on poverty both in the … impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this study, we examine the impact on poverty in two … reduce poverty in the presence as well as in the absence of trade liberalisation when labour is homogeneous. However, poverty …

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 … the increase in poverty in Pakistan during the Nineties. …

in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in … Pakistan for the period 1973-2007. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty …The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction …