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The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan – What is wrong and why? – Illustrations using the Government of Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey 2010-11

This paper aims to clarify the confusion over estimates of poverty in Pakistan1. The paper highlights the root causes of the confusion in the existing literature, which are based on estimates from the “nationally representative” data collected by the Federal Bureau of Statistics Household Integrated...

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Main Authors: Malik, Sohail Jehangir, Nazli, Hina, Whitney, Edward
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
Subjects:
surveys
households
poverty
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150406
Summary:This paper aims to clarify the confusion over estimates of poverty in Pakistan1. The paper highlights the root causes of the confusion in the existing literature, which are based on estimates from the “nationally representative” data collected by the Federal Bureau of Statistics Household Integrated Economic Surveys (HIES). The paper uses the latest available HIES 2010-11 to illustrate and clarify these issues.

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