This paper examines the role of education, technical training, school quality and literacy and numeracy skills on the earnings of wage earners and salaried persons in Pakistan by using the recent data of PIHS (1995-96). The analysis confirms the positive role of education as each year of...

This study has examined the structure of informal credit market in Pakistan by combining two approaches; a field survey administering semi-structured questionnaire to more than 1000 informal lenders supplemented by case studies. According to the survey, a good deal of interlinkages exists...

The available literature in Pakistan is generally lacking in a critical examination of the issues related to intrahousehold resource allocation. This black box is due largely to the lack of individual-level data on dietary intake, anthropometric measures, decision making, time allocation, etc....

This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 2001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates value-added in each production activity into payments to various factors (e.g., land, labour,...