Household survey data point to declining poverty over the past decade, despite some difficulties with data from three provinces. Indeed, Pakistan has turned economic growth into poverty reduction. In Punjab (the largest province, where the data appear more reliable and are thus analyzed in more detail), poverty has fallen considerably, from 33.5 percent in 2001/02 to 16.4 percent in 2007/08, after adjusting for higher food prices. This improvement...
更多显示
详细
-
2013/06/19
-
简介
-
79572
-
1
-
1
-
2013/07/17
-
Disclosed
-
Recovering strong positive trends in poverty and opportunity
-
coverage rate