Using household data collected in 1990 from a representative sub-sample of the 1985 Rural Credit Survey of Pakistan by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this paper looks at whether credit use does, in fact, affect rural welfare. The paper examines the key characteristics...

This paper primarily focuses on the effects of cotton prices on rural poverty in Pakistan. Domestic seed cotton prices are found to move closely with their export values based on world markets since 1990 and declined in real terms by about 20 percent in the late 1990s, taking world price...