POVERTY IN PAKISTAN

Dr. Asra Hameed
Pharm.D (JUW)
asra_hameed1@hotmail.com

• TOPICS INCLUDED:
• Introduction:
• Poverty Condition in
Pakistan
• Causes/Reasons of poverty
in Pakistan
• Effects of poverty in
Pakistan
• Solutions/Remedies to
Overcome the Poverty in
Pakistan
• Conclusion

Poverty Condition in Pakistan
Definition
A situation in which a
person or household lacks
the resources necessary to
be able to consume a certain
minimum basket of goods.
The basket consists either of
food, clothing, housing and
other essentials (moderate
poverty) or of food alone
(extreme poverty). The most
common method used to
define poverty is income-
based.

• According to Homer
“This is misery! The last, the worst that man can feel”.
According Jean Guenon
“He is poor who doesn't have enough; he is poorer who
cannot get enough".
“A person is considered poor if his or her income level
falls below some minimum level necessary to meet basic
needs. This minimum level is usually called the poverty
line”.
Poverty Condition in Pakistan

• Poverty in Pakistan
• A STUDY on
poverty
• Poverty in Pakistan
by Adeel Tariq

UNDP (United Nations
Development Program)

International Organizations
Reports about poverty in Pakistan.
 Report Of UNDP:
According to a UNDP report, 65.5 percent population of
Pakistan earns less than 2$ per day.
 SPDC (Social Policy Development Centre) Report
According to the SPDC, 88 percent of Baluchistan’s
population, 51 percent of NWFP, 21 percent of Sindh and 25
percent of Punjab’s population is prey to poverty and
deprivation.
 World Bank Report
According to the 2011 statistics of the World Bank, due to the
global financial recession poverty ratio is increased especially
of USA and the EU countries have pushed millions of people
around the world into deeper poverty. Almost 40% of 107
developing countries are highly exposed to the poverty.
Pakistan is ranked among the 43 countries who are most
exposed to poverty.

International Organizations
Reports about poverty in Pakistan.
 Asian Development Bank Report
According to the ADB report, poverty is spreading in
Pakistan due to the rising population, Pakistan’s
internal situation, agriculture backwardness, unequal
income distribution, defiance expenditure, and
increase in utility charges and rise in unproductive
activities.
 Pakistan’s Planning Commission Report
Pakistan’s Planning Commission (2011), poverty rate
has jumped from 23.9 to 37.5 percent in the last three
years. The commission has estimated that in 2007
there were 35.5 million people living below the
poverty line but in 2010 their number increased to
over 64 million.

Causes/Reasons of poverty in Pakistan
• 1. Government
Policies
• 2. Education

• 3. Overpopulation
• 4. Unemployment

• 5. Judiciary System
• 6. Poor
governance
• 7. Corruption

• 8. Division of
Agricultural Land
• 9. Materialism

• 10. Large Scale Import
• 11. Law and Order
• 12. Fluctuated Foreign
investment

• 13. Privatization
• 14. Political Instability

Effects of poverty in
Pakistan
• Diseases are more widely spread
because poor people cannot
afford hygienic foods and pure
drinking water which is much
expensive.
• Many infants born into poverty
have a low birth weight, which is
associated with many
preventable mental and physical
disabilities. Not only are these
poor infants more likely to be
irritable or sickly, they are also
more likely to die before their
first birthday.

• Poor families experience
much more stress than
middle-class families. Besides
financial uncertainty, these
families are more likely to be
exposed to series of negative
events and “bad luck,”
including illness, depression,
eviction, job loss, criminal
victimization, and family
death.
Pakistan

• Homelessness, or extreme poverty,
carries with it a particularly strong
set of risks for families, especially
children. Homeless children are
less likely to receive proper
nutrition and immunization. They
experience more health problems.
Homeless women experience
higher rates of low-birth-weight
babies, miscarriages, and infant
mortality, probably due to not
having access to adequate prenatal
care for their babies. Homeless
families experience even greater
life stress than other families,
including increased, family
relationships, and friendships.
Pakistan

Solutions/Remedies to Overcome
the Poverty in Pakistan
 Promote industrialization
 Replacement of the traditional agricultural
 equipment with new scientific equipments in order to
increase the yield.
 Establishment of justice and equality
 Equal distribution of resources
 Merit should be the upshot strategy in all walks of life
 Elimination of discriminatory policies

 Controlling of inflation and other economic indicators
and regulators.
 Developing investment friendly environment
 Giving more feasibilities and concessions to the foreign
investors
 Dumping extremism and feudalism
 Establishing more and more technical institute in order
to get people well skilled.
 Prevalence of education
 Provision of job opportunities
 Division of agricultural lands among tenants.

Poverty will never end unless there are real solutions to end it; solutions based
on economic justice and political changes.
1. The full equality between men and women in public as well as private areas
of life, a worldwide minimum wage of $20 per day and the end of child
labor under the age of 16 with the creation of a subsidy for scholarship.
2. The guarantee of shelter, healthcare, education, food and drinking water
as basic human rights that must be provided free to all.

3. A total redistribution of idle lands to landless farmers and the
imposition of a 50% cap on arable land devoted to products
for export per country, with the creation of a worldwide
subsidy for organic agriculture
4. An end to private monopoly ownership over natural resources,
with a minimum of 51% local communal ownership in
corporations, which control such resources as well as the
termination of intellectual property rights on pharmaceutical
drugs.
5. The cancellation of third world debt with no reciprocal
obligations attached and the payment of compensation to
Third World countries for historical as well as ecological debt.

6. An obligation of total transparency for any corporation with
more than 100 employees and a 1% tax on all benefits
distributed to shareholders of corporations to create
unemployment funds.
7. The termination of tax havens around the world as well as
free flow of capital in developing countries.
8. An equal voting for developing countries in international
organizations such as IMF, World Bank, WTO, and the
termination of veto right for the permanent members of the
UN Security Counsel.
8. A commitment by industrialized countries to decrease
carbon emission by 50% over a ten-year period as well as
reducing by 25% each developed country%u2019s
consumption of natural resources.

Conclusion
• Leadership has got central importance here; with
proper planning and good government policies the
problem can be solved. All they need to do is to
appoint competent and wall qualified economists to
help them tackle this issue and obviously their
sincerity for its solution cannot be ignored as well. A
country economy is the backbone of its country with
its solution when it is saved many problems will
automatically. Alone leadership is not enough for its
solution. People of Pakistan have too got
responsibility with equal share. People need to
cooperate fully with government and should be
sincere with their own country and put all their
energies for eradication of poverty.

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