Understanding household consumption patterns in Pakistan

Shamim, Farkhanda; Ahmad, Eatzaz

doi:10.1016/j.jretconser.2006.09.008

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“…The urban households tend to had stronger preference. Shamim and Ahmad (2007) Filmer (2008) extended the above studies by analyzing the data from 14 household surveys taken from 13 developing countries. He found that 1-2% of population had incapacities.…”

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A Review on Human Development Index

Javaid

Akbar

Nawaz

2018

Pak. J. Humanit. Soc. Sci

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Human development index is considered as very important for economy as by looking on it, development level of any country can be seen. It is based on education Index, health index and on GDP so for the purpose of analyzing the developing level of a country in different years, it is important to consider its HDI. In literature, Different authors have worked on HDI. The current paper summarizes the work by different authors so from this review paper the work that had been done on HDI can be seen.

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A Review on Human Development Index

Javaid

Akbar

Nawaz

2018

Pak. J. Humanit. Soc. Sci

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“…He identifies six dimensions comprising the decline in Egypt's agricultural exports, the unequal distribution in agricultural assets and resources, and the deteriorating health and education indicators in rural Egypt compared to urban Egypt. Other studies analyze rural consumption patterns and rural–urban inequalities in countries other than Egypt, such as Pakistan (Shamim & Ahmad, ), Malaysia (Yusof & Duasa, ), China (Yao, Zhang, & Feng, ), Greece (Kaplanoglou & Rapanos, ), and across many countries (Selvanathan & Selvanathan, ).…”

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Are Rural Egyptians Better Off? Trends in Inequality and Real Consumption Expenditure in Rural Egypt

Helmy

2019

Poverty & Public Policy

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This article uses three selected national household surveys conducted in Egypt in 1981/1982, 2004/2005, and 2015 to assess the evolution of rural consumption inequality and trends in real rural consumption expenditure at the beginning year of Mubarak’s era, his end years, and the post‐Mubarak era, respectively. After evaluating inequality using inequality measures, we construct two consumer price indices (CPIs), a general and a food CPI, for rural Egypt for the period 1981 till 2015 to evaluate rural real consumption. The article concludes that rural consumption inequality had slightly fallen from the beginning of the Mubarak era toward its end, but slightly rose again in the post‐Mubarak era. Despite the changes, estimates of rural inequality were moderate. Nevertheless, such moderate levels of inequality are expected to be higher if the new rural areas in reclaimed desert lands are accounted for separately in national surveys. The article also concludes that according to our CPI, real rural consumption expenditure had fallen in most expenditure brackets throughout the whole period, with the exception of some small‐sized brackets at the very top and very bottom ends of the consumption expenditure distribution.

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“…Noteworthy studies in this regard include Stigler (1954), Houthakker (1957), Giles and Hampton (1985) and Tansel (1986). In case of Pakistan, household consumption patterns have been analysed by a large number of studies, which includes Ranis (1961), Rahman (1963), Bussink (1970), Ali (1981), Malik (1982), Cheema and Malik (1985), Malik and Ahmad (1985), Ahmed and Ludhow (1987), Alderman (1988), Burney andKhan (1991, 1992) and more recently Shamim and Ahmad (2007) and Ahmad and Arshad (2007). The major limitation of the existing literature, apart from being based mainly on datasets which are over two decades old, is that the household consumption patterns have been analysed only for Pakistan as a whole or by its urban-rural regions.…”

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Is Consumption Pattern Homogeneous in Pakistan? Evidence from PSLM 2007-08.

Khan¹,

Khalid²

2022

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This study has analysed consumption behaviour of households across the four provinces of Pakistan using recent household survey data of 2007-08. It is found that the consumption patterns are not entirely homogeneous across all 4 provinces and also diverge across the urban-rural sectors within each province. The study has also examined the role of remittances in determining the level and distribution of household consumption expenditures, across all four provinces, by comparing the consumption behaviour of those households who received remittances versus those who did not. We found that households receiving remittances spent proportionately more on education in all provinces except Balochistan; while they spent proportionately less on food and drinks and transport and communication. In terms of the other expenditure categories, differential impact of remittances is observed across provinces.

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Understanding household consumption patterns in Pakistan

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

A Review on Human Development Index

A Review on Human Development Index

Are Rural Egyptians Better Off? Trends in Inequality and Real Consumption Expenditure in Rural Egypt

Is Consumption Pattern Homogeneous in Pakistan? Evidence from PSLM 2007-08.

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