Unrestricted trade stimulates economic growth and bridges socio-economic gaps existing in differentcountries of the world. Pakistan has adopted trade liberalization policies since the late 1980s with the same expectations. This study has empiricallyanalyzed how trade liberalization has affected...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the short and the long run wheat demand elasticities in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – Using cointegration and vector error correction model (VECM) techniques, the main objective of the study has been achieved. Findings – The...

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

There have been various attempts to estimate absolute poverty during the 1990s but there is hardly any attempt to examine the issue of income inequality in Pakistan. The paper examines the trends in inequality from the most recent micro datasets of Pakistan Integrated Household Surveys (PIHS),...