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 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 …

Although reducing rural poverty has been the key agenda of economic reforms in Pakistan, the rural poverty continued to … and access to credit, is critical to reducing rural poverty in Pakistan. … rise during the 1990s. The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional. The rural poor are quite diverse both …

This paper quantitatively investigates transition of poverty in Pakistan using two-period panel data set of Pakistan … Socio-economic Survey. Empirical results show that the incidence, intensity, and severity of poverty have increased over … absolute poor’ households have increased significantly over time. The poverty transition portrays that about onequarter of the …

This paper analyses the incidence of chronic and transitory poverty in Pakistan in both urban and rural settings. The … findings are that rural poverty is severer and also chronic as compared to transitory poverty in urban centres. The main factor … factors accentuating rural poverty. The paper also analyses the zakat element of the safety net strategy. Contrary to the …

as a strategy is important for poverty reduction in Pakistan, the contribution of redistribution in favour of the poor …Changes in the extent of poverty are affected not only by growth in the mean income but also by changes in the … distribution of income. The effect of these two factors can be separately measured by decomposing the total change in poverty. In …