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...

career planning is an important decision in the life of a person. Individuals vary in productive capacity and utility preferences therefore all do not evenly fit for each occupational group. Selection of occupation has a direct bearing on the economic development of the country as the level of output, national income and distribution of wealth is decided by the type of occupation that labor selects. The world of work is like a riddle. It is not easy for an individual to understand and select the appropriate one from various occupations. It is necessary for one to have massive information...

Fruits and vegetables are important component in agriculture sector. Production and marketing studies were used to explore the cost parameters of the production and marketing and understand the inefficiency during production process and marketing channels. To observe the inefficiency during production, stochastic frontier production was used by using the primary data from two Tehsils of the Sargodha region known as Pakistans California. It was concluded that all the input variables was directly related to technical efficiency except irrigation. Negative sign of the irrigation showed inverse...