Rural poverty a stark reality
Some oft-repeated statements - the country has come a long way; growth rates are increasing; Internet growth is one of the highest in Pakistan; the new airport at Islamabad is…
Rural poverty challenge
Agriculture being the mainstay of Pakistan's economy, accounting for nearly 25 percent of country's GDP, 60 percent of export earnings and 48 percent of employment it makes it all the…
Solution to rural poverty
In her article titled ‘Land Rights and Democracy’, (Dawn, Feb 4,) Zeenia Shaukat has referred to my earlier letter in Dawn and has posed two pertinent questions which deserve to…
Challenge of rural poverty
Successive governments in Pakistan have taken numerous policy initiatives to alleviate poverty, yet the latter has continued to increase. The International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Rural Poverty Report 2011 says…
China won the battle against poverty and is pushing forward rural revitalization
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has been centering its efforts on the…
Rural realities
HERE is a sobering reality: we often speak of poverty as a lack of resources, but rarely as a lack of trained human capital. Money can be raised, infrastructure can…
Turning around poverty
For almost two decades, from 2001 to 2018, the poverty rate in Pakistan consistently fell – from a high of over 50 per cent to less than 20 per cent.…
Reviving the rural economy
THE recent floods have resulted in misery, displacement, death, loss of property and livestock, crop destruction and damage to infrastructure. While the total losses are yet to be calculated, it…
Poverty by design
ACCORDING to the World Bank’s new poverty estimates, 44.7 per cent of Pakistan’s population (around 110 million) now lives in poverty. The proportion of people living in extreme poverty has risen…
Poverty versus progress
Despite the various claims by ministers and the government that Pakistan is making progress in the economic sphere as well as other fields, a new report by the World Bank…
