Growth-poverty linkages: Does sectoral composition matter for Pakistan?

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 915-919

  Rose, Sobia ^a   Abbas, Sadia ^a   Ali, Muhammad Faisal ^a   Azeem, Muhammad Masood ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Growth; Industry; Pakistan; Past growth; Poverty; Service

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876107946     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.21.6.2864     Document Type: Article

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