The paper looks at the trends in nominal and real salaries of the Federal Government employees over the period 1990-2006. It examines the structural defects in the existing salary structure and the anomalies in the allowances structure to show that appropriate remuneration for the civil servants...

This paper analyses the incidence of chronic and transitory poverty in Pakistan in both urban and rural settings. The findings of this study are that rural poverty is more severe and also chronic as compared to transitory poverty in urban centres. The main factor behind the phenomenon is the...

Panel household surveys study the dynamics for individual households, including their well-being, child schooling, and labour market dynamics, and they can also be used to observe who benefits or loses from general economic development. The MIMAP panel survey, covering 300 households in 60...