The main goal of this paper is to describe the sectoral structure of poverty in Pakistan by using 'HIES' data for the … years 1987-88 and 1990-91. A range of poverty measures and decomposition techniques are employed to estimate the incidence …, intensity and severity of poverty. The analysis suggests that the highest per capita income and expenditure were registered …

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 …