developments might affect the broader economy in SASEC, and in particular impact on income distribution and poverty. The paper … describes a new CGE model for South Asia, covering India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan, which incorporates …

the construction thresholds in Pakistan. -- Poverty line ; consumer line ; consistent poverty line ; calorie cost …In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both … food and non-food poverty thresholds. Although one cannot completely eliminate the value judgments inherent in the …

Analysts of the poverty phenomenon in Pakistan encounter a major problem in analysing the trends in poverty, as no …-term series by estimating a series of caloric poverty estimates from 1990-91 to 2001 based on a consistent methodology and the … large HIES/PIHS databases. The paper provides a review of past studies on poverty. It points out major methodological …