A programme, which began with the goal of overcoming poverty in rural Punjab within a decade, is historically unprecedented in this province for both its magnitude and complexity of effort. It was therefore clear from its inception that the PRSP would have to bring together a talented team of...

Analysts of the poverty phenomenon in Pakistan encounter a major problem in analysing the trends in poverty, as no series of estimates using a consistent methodology are available. This paper attempts to overcome the paucity of a long-term series by estimating a series of caloric poverty...