The paper provides a consistent time-series of poverty estimates for the period 1963- 64 to 1992-93 for both the rural as well as the urban areas, examines the influence of macroeconomic policies on the poverty levels, analyses the impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes on the levels of...

The importance of consistent and reliable data cannot be over emphasised. The main sources of data relating to Pakistan's large-scale manufacturing industries have been the periodical censuses of manufacturing industries (CMls) which collect data on capital stock, value of output, value added,...

It is a well-known fact that capital is scarce in most of the developing countries and thus some of the production factors, such as labour, remain -unemployed, leading toa lower growth rate of G.N.P. than would be possible under. full employment. Additions to the stock of capital not only...

The domestic resources of the developing countries are usually too limited even to permit a steady maintenance of their per capita income. In their attempt to improve the level of their per capita income, such countries resort to the strategy of increasing their growth rate by relying on foreign...

Over the period 1949/50 to 1970/71, Pakistan's large-scale manufacturing sector grew at a compound rate of more than 15 per cent. Its share of GNP increased during this period from 1.5 per cent to 9.4 per cent. Various factors contributed to this growth, not the least of which were the various...

In an earlier study [1, pp. 407-415] it was assumed that a linear production function would be the best to depict the relationship between wheat production and explanatory variables in the Punjab. After a careful scrutiny, four of the explanatory variables, viz., area under Mexican Wheat...

The study, based on SAM-based CGE model, examines the impact of reduction in tariff on industrial imports on urban and rural households and on other broad macroeconomic aggregates. Based on simulation exercises for 40 percent, 60 percent and 80 percent reduction in tariff on industrial imports,...