Pakistan is confronting sloppy challenges and policy dilemmas for tracing the pathways out of poverty. Contrary to the traditional practice of addressing poverty as stock concept, this book has simultaneously addressed poverty both as stock and flow concept and also logically stitched together all the relevant issues in micro and macro contours across geographic regions and time. Results demonstrated that rural poverty is not only more than twice of the poverty in urban areas but its proportionate contribution to overall poverty increased gradually. Across different regions in the country,...

Pakistan is considered an outlier as far as poverty dilemma and its growth links are concerned. This book is finding out the dynamics of rural poverty and income inequality in Pakistan while assessing the impact of various factors on poverty status of households along with estimation of pro-poor growth scenarios across time and regions. The short term PEGR reveals that agricultural growth is anti-poor in Pakistan and in all provinces from 1990-91 to 1992-93 and in the subsequent years showed pro-poor growth in rural Pakistan. The regression model reflects that one percent increase...