Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues
The phenomenon of poverty is receiving the increasing attention of policy makers and institutions with an attempt to improve the living standards of the third world countries. Pakistan is no exemption to that. As the majority of third world population is concentrated in rural areas and dependent on...
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| author | Ashfaq, M. Jehangir, Waqar A. Hussain, Intizar Mudasser, Mudasser |
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| description | The phenomenon of poverty is receiving the increasing attention of policy makers and institutions with an attempt to improve the living standards of the third world countries. Pakistan is no exemption to that. As the majority of third world population is concentrated in rural areas and dependent on agriculture sector for income, it becomes of special interest to dig into the root causes of poverty in these areas. A number of studies have shown that poverty is concentrated in the rural areas of Pakistan. However, a wide variation in estimates of poverty was experienced owing to various approaches and different poverty lines used by the researchers in estimating the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty. Recently, the Government of Pakistan addressed this issue by circulating the official poverty line. Poverty being a complex phenomenon, its determinants vary from time to time and across different areas. However, most of the studies indicate that poverty in Pakistan is concentrated in rural areas of Pakistan. Applying dollar a day poverty line shows that the poverty in Pakistan is higher as compared with many other Asian countries. |
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| spelling | CGSpace382382025-11-07T08:32:36Z Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues Ashfaq, M. Jehangir, Waqar A. Hussain, Intizar Mudasser, Mudasser rural poverty indicators income The phenomenon of poverty is receiving the increasing attention of policy makers and institutions with an attempt to improve the living standards of the third world countries. Pakistan is no exemption to that. As the majority of third world population is concentrated in rural areas and dependent on agriculture sector for income, it becomes of special interest to dig into the root causes of poverty in these areas. A number of studies have shown that poverty is concentrated in the rural areas of Pakistan. However, a wide variation in estimates of poverty was experienced owing to various approaches and different poverty lines used by the researchers in estimating the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty. Recently, the Government of Pakistan addressed this issue by circulating the official poverty line. Poverty being a complex phenomenon, its determinants vary from time to time and across different areas. However, most of the studies indicate that poverty in Pakistan is concentrated in rural areas of Pakistan. Applying dollar a day poverty line shows that the poverty in Pakistan is higher as compared with many other Asian countries. 2004 2014-06-13T11:40:59Z 2014-06-13T11:40:59Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38238 en Open Access application/pdf Ashfaq, M.; Jehangir, W. A.; Hussain, Intizar; Mudasser, Mudasser. 2004. Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues. In Jehangir, Waqar A.; Hussain, Intizar (Eds.). Poverty reduction through improved agricultural water management. Proceedings of the Workshop on Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan, 23-24 April 2003. Lahore, Pakistan: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.47-57. |
| spellingShingle | rural poverty indicators income Ashfaq, M. Jehangir, Waqar A. Hussain, Intizar Mudasser, Mudasser Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues |
| title | Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues |
| title_full | Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues |
| title_fullStr | Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues |
| title_short | Poverty in Pakistan: trends and issues |
| title_sort | poverty in pakistan trends and issues |
| topic | rural poverty indicators income |
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