Analysts of the poverty phenomenon in Pakistan encounter a major problem in analysing the trends in poverty, as no series of estimates using a consistent methodology are available. This paper attempts to overcome the paucity of a long-term series by estimating a series of caloric poverty...

Voting in local government elections is a major mechanism by which citizens in decentralized systems can demand better public service provision and hold service providers accountable. To understand whether political decentralisation can improve public service provision for the poor and for...