"Cotton, textiles, and apparel are critical agricultural and industrial sectors in Pakistan. This study provides descriptions of these sectors and examines the key developments emerging domestically and internationally that affect the challenges and opportunities they face. One-quarter of...

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...

In the wake of the global food crisis of 2007-08 and additional price spikes since then, greater attention has been given to the welfare impact of food price increases in developing countries. The standard approach in this type of analysis, proposed by Deaton (1989), is based on income and...

The incidence of rural poverty in Pakistan increased during the late 1990s after having declined during the 1980s and early 1990s. A number of structural factors have been identified as contributing to rural poverty in Pakistan. Among them are low levels of health and education spending and the...

Replaced with revised version of paper 06/28/07.