Open AccessHow Do the Poor Respond to Rising Prices?
Author(s) -
Zareen F. Naqvi,
Mohammad Rizki Akbar
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v39i4iipp.827-842
Subject(s) - poverty , economics , unemployment , vulnerability (computing) , development economics , falling (accident) , poverty reduction , fiscal space , inequality , food prices , demographic economics , food security , fiscal policy , economic growth , monetary economics , geography , agriculture , medicine , mathematical analysis , computer security , environmental health , mathematics , computer science , archaeology
Recent estimates show that after falling in the 1980s, povertyhas made a comeback in Pakistan during the 1990s. The Government ofPakistan (GOP) estimate show an increase in caloric poverty headcountfrom 17 percent in 1987-88 to 33 percent in 1998-99 and also risingincome inequality during the 1990s.1 In contrast preliminary estimatesby the World Bank show that poverty may not have risen as rapidly duringthe 1990s and may even have stagnated.2 Slow down in economic growth,rising open unemployment, rising food and non-food prices, reduction inthe fiscal space for pro-poor public programmes, poor governancehampering delivery of social services to the poor; are factors that havebeen attributed to the growing poverty and vulnerability of householdsin recent years.