Poverty is a widespread problem that particularly afflicts developing countries. A number of studies, have analysed the phenomena of poverty in Pakistan. Some of these studies are based on arbitrarily chosen poverty-lines, and others are based on poverty-lines determined on the basis of...

Information serves as an essential intermediate input in decision-making for any business process. It is an essential requirement not only for effective and efficient management but also for medium and long term planning. In this era of technological advancement the rapid growth of information...

The 1990s have seen poverty reduction become the overarching objective of all economic development. In countries where poverty is largely a rural phenomenon it is obvious that considerations of poverty focus on improving rural welfare. The welfare impact of credit use in the process of...

By highlighting the lack of rigorous evidence and calling for a greater understanding of the interaction of the two processes, a recent study [Nelson et al. (1997)] has called into question the strong perception that poverty is both a consequence as well as a cause of resource degradation. This...

The structural transformation of Pakistan’s economy has not been accompanied by a concomitant decline in the proportion of labor employed in agriculture. While this transformation has resulted in a non-farm sector that is large and growing it has not lead to the rapid absorption of the pool of...

The structural transformation of Pakistan’s economy has not been accompanied by a concomitant decline in the proportion of labor employed in agriculture. While this transformation has resulted in a non-farm sector that is large and growing it has not lead to the rapid absorption of the pool of...

About 1.2 billion people around the globe live in extreme poverty and 870 million go to bed hungry every night. The ILO estimates that almost 202 million people were unemployed last year, an increase of five million over 2012.1 In this perspective a lot of thinking is going on to find practical...

Member-owned Islamic microfinance institutions have been toast to be the alternative means of financial inclusion among the Muslims who are voluntary excluded from participating in the traditional member-owned microfinance institutions because of the interest they charge. This novel idea is...

Pakistan is a lower middle-income country, which is home to a large number of poor, constituting about one-third of its population. The incidence of poverty has remained at around 30 percent of the population during last four decades. The country has been struggling for poverty reduction and has...