The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount …

Pakistan), nominal inequality is lower than real inequality. In other countries (Ethiopia and Madagascar), no differences are …

moment in time. PASS collects information on material deprivation with a list of 26 possessions and activities. The article … discusses the difficulties of measuring material deprivation and identifies several sources of measurement error and selection … bias. However, even when controlling for such errors and biases, regression models for different deprivation indices show a …

is proposed and applied.Education spending shows significant bias in favor of boys in Pakistan, though not in South … variable proving to be a significant determinant of expenditure allocation in South Africa, but not in Pakistan.The results …

This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model … out in Pakistan, it reports strong evidence of such crowding out in South Africa in 1993/94 and that too for the poor but …