Food Consumption Patterns and Implications for Poverty Reduction in Pakistan

Poverty Reduction Strategy of Pakistan

The biggest development challenge facing Pakistan is how to meet the millennium development goal of bringing down the incidence of poverty from the current level of 33 percent to 18 percent by 2015. It may be recalled that by reaching this goal, we would have only regained the level we had attained in 1988-89. This experience shows that it is quite easy to relapse into higher incidence of pover...

Pakistan: Internal Migration and Poverty Reduction

Poverty in Pakistan

The paper in the study of poverty in Pakistan is aimed at the analysis of macroeconomic determinants of poverty. It reviews the empirical literature on poverty in Pakistan over the last thirty years. The literature varies from published research papers to the different reports produced by the national and the international institutions. It also estimates the impact of different causes of povert...

Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Implications for food security and poverty reduction strategies

Acknowledgements: Generous support was provided for this study by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the US Agency for International Development, Economic Growth and Agricultural Trade Division. We also thank Stanford University’s Center for Food Security and the Environment for additional support for the preparation of this study. This study has benefited from the thoughtful comments of De...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran