research papers on poverty in pakistan

The paper attempts to explain the reduction in poverty in Pakistan over time. Since 2004, poverty in the country has steadily declined; while Pakistan has experienced some phases of falling poverty in previous years (e.g., 1994-97), these phases have been short-lived and trends in poverty erratic.

This study aimed to calculate multidimensional poverty in Pakistan using the Alkire & Foster method and Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) published by the Pakistan Bureau of ...

Poverty Trend in Pakistan: A Glimpse from Last Two Decades Hania Afzal & Henna Ahsan, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad. INTRODUCTION Poverty reduction is one of the most important sustainable development goals set by the UN in 2015. According to this goal, Pakistan must reduce its poverty level to… - Poverty Trend in Pakistan: A Glimpse from Last Two Decades Hania Afzal ...

The study estimates the poverty rates- headcount ratio, povert y gap and s quared poverty gap which. are 15.41, 2.4 and 0.58 % in Pakistan. The analysis at regional lev el depicts that all of the ...

The relationship between growth and poverty is complex in Pakistan, where economic growth has not always been translated into poverty reduction. In the present work, three waves of a panel/longitudinal household survey, conducted between 2001 and 2010, were used to analyze poverty trajectories as well as the relationship between their patterns and economic growth. The findings from the panel ...

Policy Paper Series on Pakistan PK 23/12 June 05, 2014 Public Disclosure Authorized ... Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions in Pakistan and around the world. Working Papers are also posted on the Web at ... Pakistan's poverty rate declined about 2.5 percentage points per year ...

The study is based on the standard poverty line as declared by the. Planning Commission (Government of Pakistan), that is, Rs 723.40 and Rs 878.64 per. month per adult equivalence consumption for ...

This article aims to give a fresh insight into the non-linear relationship between unemployment, governance, and poverty in Pakistan. For the purpose, the study utilizes data from 1984 to 2016 by employing a nonlinear ARDL co-integration approach.

This report describes the trends and key features of poverty in Pakistan, discusses its main causes, outlines existing programs and initiatives to reduce poverty, and gives a set of strategic options for ADB. ... Papers and Briefs ADB-researched working papers; ... Data & Research; News & Events; Independent Evaluation; Other ADB Sites. ADB Blogs;

Table A compares multidimensional poverty with monetary poverty measured by the percentage of the population living below 2017 PPP US$2.15 per day. It shows that monetary poverty only tells part of the story. The headcount or incidence of multidimensional poverty is 33.4 percentage points higher than the incidence of monetary poverty.

So, our paper is the first to relate these mediating and moderating variables in the association between FI and poverty alleviation among SMEs, especially in a developing country environment. In this research, the target study group has enormous significance because SME's have been financially disenfranchised for many decades (Farooq et al ...

P akistan has. shown a decline in the poverty during 1970s and 1980s, but the trend reversed in the 1990s. Poverty rose more sharply in the rural areas in the 1990s, and the incidence of rural ...

added to the original income of the people, the poverty is reduced from the range of 6.07 - 6.82 percent to 16.06 - 16.59 percent. The present author also reached the conclusion that such transfers reduced poverty from 2.5 to 3 percent in case of Pakistan (see Shirazi, 1994). In this paper, the hypothesis that the probability of a household being

This study identifies the factors affecting rural household poverty. The study was based on the primary data which was collected through the multi-stage cluster sampling from the rural areas of the Southern Punjab. The responses were collected through face-to-face interviews and the total two hundred heads of household were interviewed.

For decades, agriculture has been central to economic growth and development in Pakistan. However, endemic rural poverty hinders the performance of agricultural production, and thus deteriorates the sustainable development perspectives of the agricultural sector and the entire country. The need for agricultural reform emphasizes raising farmers' incomes as a cornerstone of the sustainable ...

This research is about the impact of determinants of poverty in Pakistan. In this paper five independent macroeconomics variables that are government expenditure, budget deficit, unemployment rate, exchange rate ... Sikandar and Rizvi (2013) show in their research paper that effect of agriculture growth, trade directness and employment, poverty ...

Abstract. This study aims, first to construct an education poverty index (EPI) for Pakistan using household data; second, to investigate the spatial differences of education poverty (EP) at district level; and third to find the socio-economic determinants of EP. Four different dimensions are used to construct EPI using the Alkire Foster (AF ...

Interim poverty reduction strategies paper (2001) indicates that poverty in Pakistan remained fairly stable during the 1990s, from 29.3 % i n 1993-1994 to 32.2% in 1998- 1999.

Poverty is a complex socio-economic problem that affects millions of people worldwide. ... The authors appreciate the support of the Deanship of Scientific Research, under the Researchers Supporting Project number (RSPD2024R997), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ... Studied in Pakistan, Turkey, and Japan, he publishes articles in ...

Poverty in Pakistan has been recorded by the World Bank at 39.3% using the lower middle-income poverty rate of US$ 3.2 per day for the fiscal year 2020-21. In September 2021, the government stated that 22% percent of its population lives below the national poverty line set at Rs. 3030 (US$10) per month. Independent bodies supported estimates of a considerable fall in the statistic by the ...

A serious hunger crisis has developed in Pakistan, ... See Assessing the impact of the 2017 PPPs on the International Poverty Line and global poverty, policy research working paper number 9941, World Bank, 2022. PPP is meant to provide a common benchmark, but it has limitations in the context of this research. ...

aid and government policies on the level of rural poverty in Pakistan. In total, 384 farmers from major agricultural areas of Pakistan completed the survey-based questionnaire.

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