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...

Although reducing rural poverty has been the key agenda of economic reforms in Pakistan, the rural poverty continued to rise during the 1990s. The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional. The rural poor are quite diverse both in the problems they face, and the possible solutions...