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The Effectiveness of Community-Based Development in Poverty Reduction: A Descriptive Analysis of a Women-Managed NGO in Rural Pakistan

The Effectiveness of Community-Based Development in Poverty Reduction: A Descriptive Analysis of a Women-Managed NGO in Rural Pakistan

hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp –

To assess the targeting performance of community-based development activities and deduce the impact of such activities on poverty reduction, we implemented a survey of a non-governmental organization (NGO) in northwestern Pakistan. A distinct characteristic of this NGO is that it is managed mostly by women and its interventions are conducted through community-based organizations (COs), most of whose members are also female. This characteristic is rather unusual for a male-dominated society like more...

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D C on March 26, 2013

Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Poverty

Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Poverty

savap.org.pk –

The study focused on the importance of remittances inflow and its implication for economic growth and poverty reduction in Pakistan. By using ARDL approach we analyze the impact of remittances inflow on economic growth and poverty in Pakistan for the period 1973-2010. The district wise analysis of poverty suggest that overseas migration contributes to poverty alleviation in the districts of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan however NWFP is not portraying a clear picture. The empirical evidence more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 18, 2013

Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty: Lessons from Pilot Projects in India and Pakistan

Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty: Lessons from Pilot Projects in India and Pakistan

Conventional government schemes and microfinance interventions have struggled to reach the poorest people and help them escape the confines of extreme poverty. In response, BRAC, Bangladesh’s largest non-governmental organisation (NGO), developed an innovative approach that combined livelihood creation, financial services and safety nets in order to ‘graduate’ participants out of extreme poverty and toward a sustainable livelihood. Inspired by BRAC’s success, the Consultative Group to Assist more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 1, 2012

Estimating the depth of microfinance programme outreach

Estimating the depth of microfinance programme outreach

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Microfinance has emerged on the global scale as a key strategy to reduce poverty and promote development. This paper is based on a primary household survey of 1,132 respondents in the Punjab Province of Pakistan to assess which category of the poor is being served by microfinance institutions. The paper concludes with findings that the depth of poverty outreach is significantly lower than what has been hitherto proclaimed by service providers and reflects on policy implications to enhance depth more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 27, 2011

Pakistan Millenium Development Goal Report

Pakistan Millenium Development Goal Report

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Pakistan along with other world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration in the year 2000, and pledged to “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty”. The Government of Pakistan is fully committed towards the achievement of the MDG, as reflected from the fact that all major policy documents (PRSP-II, MTDF-2005-10 and Vision 2030) are fully cognizant of the MDGs. Pakistan has adopted and monitors 16 national more...

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Naeem Akram on July 9, 2011

Running out of everything: How scarcity drives crisis in Pakistan

Running out of everything: How scarcity drives crisis in Pakistan

worldpoliticsreview.com –

Few of the country's policy elite fully grasp how Pakistan's energy, food and fiscal challenges intersect, nor how quickly problems will spiral as the country's population grows. Meanwhile, the international community is equally fragmented and short-term in its outlook, still working through sector-based silos that leave it unable to see the big picture. With regard to Pakistan, the United States, along with other international actors, still lacks a coherent vision for what it can do to help more...

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D C on June 13, 2011

Systematic Review of the Link Between Tobacco and Poverty

Systematic Review of the Link Between Tobacco and Poverty

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This study explores the link between tobacco use and poverty, as well as the broader relationship between income, tobacco use, and tobacco-related health consequences, using a meta-analysis of existing research literature. A significant variation in the prevalence of use of tobacco is based on income level, in addition to other variables including ethnicity, altitude of residence, occupation, and religion. The aim of this study is to assess the association between income level and tobacco more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 9, 2011

The Opiates Business

The Opiates Business

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The growing menace of drugs trafficking in the South Asia can be addressed only through regional cross-border cooperation and addressing issues of corruption, violence and livelihoods.

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- nisha on May 28, 2011

A twelve-point EU Action Plan in support of the Millennium Development Goals

A twelve-point EU Action Plan in support of the Millennium Development Goals

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The European Union has every interest to ensure that a strong political and financial focus on the MDGs is maintained in the policies of donors and partner countries alike. The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty marks a new era in EU Development policy, with the EU and its Member States set to coordinate their policies more closely.This Communication presents an EU action plan with a number of specific medium-term actions in support of the MDGs.

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Sonia Hossain on May 7, 2011

UKaid: Changing lives, delivering results in Pakistan

UKaid: Changing lives, delivering results in Pakistan

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38 million people (one in four) live in poverty on around £1 a day or less. Pakistan has 17 million out of school children. Half of all adults, two out of every three women, are illiterate. One in ten children die before their tenth birthday, and 14,000 women die in childbirth every year. Entrenched poverty is denying opportunities to millions of people and undermining Pakistan’s long term stability and prosperity.Tackling poverty and building a stable, prosperous, and democratic Pakistan more...

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Farina Ahmed on March 6, 2011

The 2007-08 Rice Price Crisis - How policies drove up prices... and how they can help stabilise the market

The 2007-08 Rice Price Crisis - How policies drove up prices... and how they can help stabilise the market

After increasing slowly and steadily from historic lows, world rice prices tripled in just six months during 2007-08. The price surge caused much anxiety because so many of the world’s poor are rice consumers. And it caught many by surprise as market fundamentals were sound. This Policy Brief of FAO’s Economic and Social Development Department argues that it was government policies, rather than changes in the production and consumption of rice, that drove the surge. Improved government more...

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Denis Drechsler on February 9, 2011

Empowerment and poverty reduction through infrastructure and service provision in rural Pakistan

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Poverty in Pakistan is overwhelmingly rural. Some two-thirds of Pakistan's population, and over 60 percent of the country's poor, live in rural areas. In 2005, average per capita expenditures in rural areas were 31 percent lower than in urban areas. This inequality between urban and rural areas is re-enforced by inequality within and between rural areas. Owing to uneven access to land and useable water, most of the increased income that results from agricultural production accrues to higher more...

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Estimating Multidimensional Poverty and Identifying the Poor in Pakistan: An Alternative Approach

Estimating Multidimensional Poverty and Identifying the Poor in Pakistan: An Alternative Approach

recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk –

This paper argues for the multidimensional measurement of poverty in Pakistan particularly in the context of Millennium Development Goals. It critically examines the Poverty Scorecard, which was recently introduced by the Government of Pakistan for the identification of poor households under the Benazir Income Support Programme. By employing the Alkire and Foster measure to analyze household data from two provinces, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwah3 and Punjab, it provides an alternative method to estimate more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 9, 2010

Development Effectiveness Brief: Pakistan

Development Effectiveness Brief: Pakistan

This brief presents how ADB's operations help improve people's lives in Pakistan and the challenges ADB and the country face in pursuing agreed development goals. As Pakistan’s biggest multilateral development partner, ADB has assisted the Government of Pakistan in undertaking critical economic and governance reforms in the last decade, which contributed to steady economic growth and boosted spending on poverty reduction programs.

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Sonia Hossain on January 19, 2010

Poverty dynamics in rural Sindh, Pakistan

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This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during 1986–91, were resurveyed in 2004–05 with minimal attrition. The incidence of poverty increased sharply over this time, as the percentage of households entering poverty was nearly three times higher than the percentage of households escaping into poverty. Over a quarter of panel more...

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Moushumi Biswas on November 17, 2009

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