This paper primarily focuses on the effects of cotton prices on rural poverty in Pakistan. Domestic seed cotton prices are found to move closely with their export values based on world markets since 1990 and declined in real terms by about 20 percent in the late 1990s, taking world price...

Using primary data from a union council of Punjab (Dhamyal), this article analyses the poverty and inequality at the lower administrative level. The analysis shows that 35 percent of the households are poor while there is wide variation of incidence of poverty among the seven villages of the...

The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount during the previous decade. This paper examines trends in poverty between 2001 and 2011 using the official food energy intake and the cost of basic needs approaches, both of...