Estimating poverty
Poverty reduction is the main objective of the global agenda for sustainable development. The identification of the poor and the evaluation of the extent of poverty has received considerable attention…
Rising poverty
The measurement of the number of poor in Pakistan has relied on different approaches. The most commonly used method is to derive a poverty line and determine the extent to…
The poverty debate
The article ‘Poverty and social protection” by Amir Hussain in these pages (June 27, 2019) touches upon some fundamental aspects of the development debate, with respect to the relationship between…
Poverty and social protection
Last week I met with some senior officials of an international financial institution at the Cabinet Division in Islamabad. We discussed, at length, some core issues related to poverty alleviation…
Reforms and the poverty trap
Pakistan struggles with many problems. The new budget may result in more as inflation hits households. In our media-generated frenzy over current events, we sometimes forget how the lives people…
A move to reduce poverty
THE launch of a poverty-alleviation programme under the banner of Ehsas (compassion) has caused a flutter in millions of hearts in the country because poverty deprives a very large segment of the…
Falling poverty?
Contrary to perceptions, the extremely good news is that poverty is apparently declining sharply in Pakistan. The National Poverty Report published recently by the Planning Commission has revealed that the…
Moving beyond poverty
The conventional income-based and consumption-oriented food-basket approaches have lost their economic and sociological credence as a means to measure poverty assessment for three reasons. The first limitation of conventional approaches…
Neoliberalism and poverty
Poverty has been vaguely defined in development literature as an undesirable state of living with no indepth analysis of its real nature. If you read any social policy journal, an…
Wealth creation and poverty
Speaking at a function held by the Pakistan Business Council on December 13, 2018, Prime Minister Imran Khan stressed the need for wealth creation in Pakistan for poverty alleviation. No…
