INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL PAKISTAN: A study of sample villages

Aly Ercelawn

Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 1984, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-28

Abstract: Overall income inequality is decomposed into the contribution of various income sources. Wage employment, nonfarm enterprise, and livestock were found to be inequality-mitigating. Unequal access to land was the major influence upon income inequality, directly through highly unequal crop incomes and indirectly through inequity created in other income opportunities. The. brief analysis of poverty suggests that rural poverty is largely borne by those with disadvantaged access to land. The situation of the landless demands more attention for this agrarian group than usually accorded in anti-poverty programs.

Date: 1984
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.aerc.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1st-Paper-Page-1-28-1.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pje:journl:article1984sumiii

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics from Applied Economics Research Centre Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Samina Khalil ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).