This paper examines the gender component of the Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (UPAP), initiated by the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1996. UPAP gives loans to self-constituted groups of women who would be considered uncreditworthy by normal banking...

Pakistan's development project that was initiated in the 1950s with a focus on creating a prosperous and quitable society, making the benefits of scientific advancement and progress available to all the people, got lost somewhere in the labyrinth of development fashions and econometric modelling...