may help to increase the impact of decentralisation on public service provision for the poor and for women in Pakistan … public service provision for the poor and for women, it is important to know to what extent these groups use their vote to … Pakistan. The results show that except in the North West Frontier Province, income status and residence in rural areas did not …

poverty in Pakistan. (Pak Dev Rev/DÜI) …The paper opens with a brief description of economic growth in Pakistan and its positive but limited trickle down … effects. It is followed by a discussion on levels of poverty (...). The analysis brings forward a bleak picture of stagnant …

The aim of this study is to highlight the role and effectiveness of microfinance in empowering women. The data used for … this study were collected from Women empowerment index (WDI) and the book of Pakistani statistics. An empirical … investigation was carried out by using Johansen co-integration approach to evaluate the long-term correlation between poverty …

representative survey of over 13 thousand households from Pakistan (PDHS 2012-13) to analyze the effects of observed preference for … sons on women's participation in intra-household decision-making. Four key intra-household decisions are considered … number of matching routines are employed to account for the possibility of potential selection bias.We find that women with …

, women entrepreneurs in Pakistan are handicapped in the matter of organizing and running their businesses due to absence of …Microcredit has been recognized as an effective tool to foster entrepreneurship among the rural women. Traditionally … capital and fear of failure. With the efforts of state-owned and private microcredit instructions, many Pakistani women are …