Sources of Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural Pakistan

摘要

The report pinpoints the contribution of different sources of income to incomeinequality in rural Pakistan by analyzing a three-year panel data set of income collected in 12 rounds of household interviews. It finds that in rural Pakistan nonfarm and livestock income are important to the poor and hence tend to decrease income inequality, whereas agricultural, transfer, and rental income tend to go to those who are already better off, hence increasing inequality.