industrialization on poverty. It is concluded that industrial development in Pakistan has historically been heavily dependent on …

The main focus of this study is Rural Punjab and it contributes to regional poverty research in two ways; first, using … a more recent household survey data, carried out in August 2007 by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE …), it provides fresh poverty estimates for the rural areas of the Punjab. Second, the poverty differential across the agro …

, financial openness and public intervention in the country, while the head-count ratio was used for poverty measurement, and GDP … liberalization on poverty. We investigated the relationship between trade liberalization and poverty levels both in the long run as … on poverty reduction in the long-run but not in the short run in Pakistan. Lower poverty is associated with low taxation …

We reexamine the association between poverty, the middle class, and institutional outcomes using a newly developed … impact of a larger middle class appears to be more robust than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher gross …

low percentage of households in poverty. We documented how neighborhood parks are managed and programmed and also … are used less in high-poverty areas compared to medium- and low-poverty area parks, even after accounting for differences … park. Future research should test whether increasing park staffing and programming will lead to increased park use in high-poverty …

and socioeconomic data, we estimate the impacts of Bolivia’s protected areas on poverty between 1992 and 2001. We find no … evidence that the establishment of protected areas exacerbated poverty. In fact, we provide robust estimates indicating that … communities affected by protected areas exhibited differentially greater levels of poverty reduction as compared to similar …

measurement method and find that with this metric, countries of Africa outperform global averages in progress to achieving the MDG …