poverty in pakistan

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...

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...

Child Health and Poverty in Pakistan

This study examines the health status of Pakistani children using two important indicators, morbidity and malnutrition measured by weight-for-age and height-for-age. The demand for medical services has also been determined. The main data source used in this study is the 2000-01 Pakistan Social-Economic Survey (PSES), which provides sufficient information on child health and poverty. Findings of...

Poverty and Labour Market Linkages in Pakistan

This study is a component of the Micro Impact of Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies (MIMAP) Pakistan project. This project is being implemented by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad. The main aim of this project is to analyse the impact of structural adjustment policies on income distribution and poverty in Pakistan. an autonomous research organisation devoted to carrying...

Pakistan: Internal Migration and Poverty Reduction

Globalization, Poverty and Environmental Degradation: Sustainable Development in Pakistan