examine the inter-temporal link between growth and poverty in Pakistan, over the next 25years period i.e., from the years 2011 …Forecasting poverty in the future is mostly a matter of forecasting economic growth. The objective of the study is to … test the temporal causality among poverty measures (i.e., head count ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap), growth …

. The monotonicity axiom sets out a condition that the proportional reduction in poverty is a monotonically increasing … a ‘poverty equivalent social expenditure rate’, which takes into account both the magnitude of social expenditures … to Pakistan’s unit record household surveys during the periods of 1964–2011 (21 household surveys) and examines the …