While the COVID-19 pandemic’s detrimental repercussions on global economic growth are not exactly measured, there is widespread agreement among the policy-makers that it can deteriorate the global economy drastically. To this end, several studies have endeavored to analyze the harmful effects...

The main objective of this study is to construct a valid and reliable asset index at household level by using NSER-BISP data in order to compute asset poverty for provinces, districts, and tehsils of the Pakistan. An asset index may be better measure than current income or expenditure for...