Structural Adjustment, Labour and the Poor in Pakistan

Three-Gap Analysis of Structural Adjustment in Pakistan

This paper addresses two specific sets of questions. The first main question that has occupied a number of researchers is whether the adjustment programs (advocated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) have had any positive effects to date on macroeconomic performance (i.e., on exports, imports, savings, investment, consumption, and gross domestic product) in Pakistan. The sec...

Consequences of Structural Adjustment Policies on the Poor

Globalisation and Labour Markets Programme Research Paper 2002 / 18 Structural Adjustment and the Sectoral and Geographical Mobility of Labour

Conventional methods for analysing worker flows often focus on gross flows or transition probabilities. This is not necessarily informative for identifying the scale of labour ‘adjustment’ in an economy in the sense of the expansion and decline of industries. We develop a method which relates the individual characteristics of workers to net, rather than gross flows. Our method also allows for i...

Poverty and Labour Market Linkages in Pakistan

This study is a component of the Micro Impact of Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies (MIMAP) Pakistan project. This project is being implemented by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad. The main aim of this project is to analyse the impact of structural adjustment policies on income distribution and poverty in Pakistan. an autonomous research organisation devoted to carrying...

Exploring the role of structural adjustment in alleviating poverty in Pakistan

While the structural adjustment approach has been guiding the orientation of International Financial Institutions (IFIs), namely the International Monetary Institute and the World Bank's, approaches to poverty reduction in much of the developing world, the evidence that it actually brings about poverty reduction remains controversial. Such debate provides the premise for this background paper w...