Analysts of the poverty phenomenon in Pakistan encounter a major problem in analysing the trends in poverty, as no …-term series by estimating a series of caloric poverty estimates from 1990-91 to 2001 based on a consistent methodology and the … large HIES/PIHS databases. The paper provides a review of past studies on poverty. It points out major methodological …

around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …