Growth-Poverty Linkage and Income-Asset Relation in Regional Disparity: Evidence from Pakistan and India: Comments Pakistan Development ReviewAhmed, Munir
Poverty-plagued South Asia moves toward free trade zone amid easing tensions between India, Pakistan
representing a slight decrease of 0.5 percent compared to the same period in 2022, and Pakistan remains Afghanistan's largest export market, accounting for 55 percent of total exports, followed by India at 29 percent.”
has estimated that Pakistan's poverty at national level declined sharply from 22.3 percent in 2005-06 (versusIndia's poverty rate of 42%) to 17.2 percent in 2007-08. Prior to this report, the2009 UN Human and Income Poverty Reportsaid the people living under $1.25 a day in India...
The survey was conducted face-to-face by well-trained university students familiar with the local language, resulting in a 100% response rate. After data cleaning and removing incomplete samples, 466 valid samples were obtained. The household level questionnaire covered basic family characteristics, ...
For instance, a study from Pakistan demonstrates that householders with higher levels of education are less likely to report energy poverty (Qurat-ul-Ann and Mirza 2021). The inverse relationship between educational attainment and energy poverty has also been evidenced in other developing Asian ...
In spite of the progress Pakistan made until 2008, the hunger situation in Pakistan (and Sri Lanka) is still rated as serious on a scale ranging from low level hunger to extremely alarming, and for the rest of South Asia, including India, the situation is described as alarming by the worl...
In addition, poverty can not only be measured by a wealth status but also a subjective feeling. Mahmood et al. (2018) showed a difference between objective and subjective poverty in Pakistan, as they are determined by different factors. Beyond promoting material wealth mainly measured by GDP, ...
in Pakistan, are forced to work rather than attend school. A quarter of a million of them work as domestic servants. The most recent United Nations Human Development Report indicates that the youth literacy rate in Pakistan is an abysmal 58 percent, among the lowest in the world. Sexual ...
The benchmark projections of poverty by country imply a high speed of poverty reduction in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, fueled by the high rates of income per capita growth in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Philippines, China and Pakistan. Substantial reductions in poverty in Sub-Sahar...