Development process may entail changes in the socio-economic positions of people from one generation to the other. In Pakistan, no attempt has so far been made to study the lines on which people gain upward mobility or the factors which are involved in this process. This paper is an attempt in...

In earlier studies of the informal sector, and in particular in its association with small-scale, cottage and household manufacturing industries (HM), this sector was commonly considered as economically backward, low-income and offering few possibilities for raising productive employment. Later...

In order to enhance the indigenous supply of energy, Pakistan has launched various investment programmes as a consequence of which 28 percent and 43.2 per· cent of total public investment has been invested in the energy sector, respectively, in the Fifth and the Sixth Five Year Plans. However,...

This paper attempts to analyse the effects of changes in agricultural prices on different segments of the society. Taking the cases of two major crops; namely wheat and rice, and of agricultural inputs in general, it works out the 'own-price effects' and 'cross-price effects' of price changes on...

The performance of the existing agricultural marketing system in developing countries has been a subject of considerable debate in the past many years.. One of the many issues of this debate concerns the ability of the traditional marketing system to adopt new technology and to accommodate any...

Private agricultural marketing systems in developing countries are sometimes considered incapable of handling rapid growth in farm produce with adequate reward to the producer. As such, they could discourage improvements in farm productivity. This paper shows that this is not necessarily so in...

The main objective of this paper is to study the rural income distribution in Pakistan by determining income accruing to farm and non-farm households from various assets held by them. Most of the existing literature on income distribution in Pakistan [3; 4; 8; 10; 12; 14; 17] focuses either on aggregate...

This paper is an attempt to throw further light on the empirical dimensions of the issue of agricultural taxation. 1 It has two objectives: First, using an alternative methodology it attempts to measure the effective tax burden (as opposed to the nominal one) in the agricultural sector (AS)...

It can hardly be denied that since the late Sixties, the introduction of HighYielding Varieties (HYVs) of a number of commodities, along with tubewell irrigation and chemical fertilizers, has significantly improved the overall agricultural productivity in Pakistan [12; 15]. However what is still...