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- Title
THE 'TRUE' LEVEL OF INCOME INEQUALITY IN PAKISTAN.
- Authors
PASHA, Hafiz A.
- Abstract
The Household Integrated Economic Surveys (HIES) of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reveal a low level of income inequality in Pakistan. However, this is due to large sampling and non-sampling errors. Appropriate adjustments for the size and inequality in income from different sources reveal that inequality is much higher. The Gini coefficient rises by over 30 per cent and a new measure of inequality, the Pashum ratio, by 42 per cent. Numerous policy implications are derived from the findings.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; INCOME inequality; GINI coefficient; SAMPLING errors; ECONOMIC surveys
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 2022, Vol 32, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0254-9204
- Publication type
Article