This study attempts to discuss the factors that influence urban poverty, with a special focus on governance. The concept of governance has gained significant attention in international policy-making, and also recently in Pakistan. Generally speaking, governance means the process of...

This paper examines the gender component of the Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (UPAP), initiated by the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1996. UPAP gives loans to self-constituted groups of women who would be considered uncreditworthy by normal banking...