This paper examines the gender component of the Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (UPAP), initiated by the National … to miss the mark insofar as exploiting its potential or striking at the essence of poverty are concerned. (...) (Pak Dev …

poverty in Pakistan. (Pak Dev Rev/DÜI) …The paper opens with a brief description of economic growth in Pakistan and its positive but limited trickle down … effects. It is followed by a discussion on levels of poverty (...). The analysis brings forward a bleak picture of stagnant …

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 …