Changes in Poverty and Income Inequality in Pakistan during the 1970s

Hans de Kruijk and Myrna Leeuwen
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Hans de Kruijk: Erasmus University.Rotterdam.
Myrna Leeuwen: Erasmus University.Rotterdam.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1985, vol. 24, issue 3-4, 407-422

Abstract: According to Paul Streeten [10], the relationship between poverty eradication and reducing income inequalities is still an unsettled question. He mentions empirical studies of eleven countries. In ten of these countries, poverty and inequality move in the same direction, both increasing (Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia) or both declining (Korea, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Yugoslavia,China and Israel). The only exception is perhaps Kuwait, where poverty (of Kuwaiti citizens, but not of the large group of immigrant workers) has been reduced, while inequality has increased (explanation: oil wealth).

Date: 1985
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