Poverty is still a major problem in Pakistan. (...) We have long known that agricultural growth is closely related to … poverty reduction. Recent studies (...) provide massive statistical evidence of this relationship. Rural growth and … agricultural growth have a major effect on poverty reduction; urban growth and manufacturing growth do not. (...) The poor in rural …

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 …