This paper examines the importance of housing as an important dimension of poverty by highlighting the crucial contributions of adequate housing for ensuring opportunity, security and empowerment - three important pillars for poverty reduction. With the increasing pressure of population, a...

Using household data collected in 1990 from a representative sub-sample of the 1985 Rural Credit Survey of Pakistan by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this paper looks at whether credit use does, in fact, affect rural welfare. The paper examines the key characteristics...