Poverty in Pakistan

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Poverty in Pakistan

• By Kiran Aftab
• Rameesha Sameer
• Rida Malik
• and
• Samiha Zehra

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Information

• Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as
  clean water , nutrition, health care, education,
  clothing and shelter, because of the inability to
  afford them. This is also referred to as absolute
  poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the
  condition of having fewer resources or less
  income than others within a society or country,
  or compared to worldwide averages. Poverty in
  Pakistan is a growing concern, as it is a
  developing country. Although the middle-class has
  grown in Pakistan to 35 million, nearly
  one-quarter of the population is classified poor
  as of October 2006. As of 2008, 17.2 of the
  total population lives below the poverty line,
  which is the lowest figure in the history of
  Pakistan.

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Causes of Poverty

• Lack of education
• The literacy rate of Pakistan is very low.
  Most of people do not have any concept about the
  modern earning sources. Most people are unable to
  adopt technology for their business needs, thats
  why business do not meet international standards
  and results as decrease in revenue which lead the
  society to poor financial conditions.
• Materialism
• In our society social bonding are gradually
  becomes thinner and thinner. A race of material
  object has been started even no one tried to
  understand the problems of others. Every one is
  gradually changing from human to a bioman which
  only know about his needs and have no concept
  about the limitations of others. People are not
  ready to help each other. At last every one has
  lose his trust on others which effect our social
  and economic system and it is another cause of
  poverty.
• Large Scale Import
• The import of Pakistan is greater than export.
  Big revenue is consumed in importing good every
  year, even raw material has to import for
  industry. If we decrease import and establish own
  supply chains from our country natural resources
  the people will have better opportunities to
  earn.

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Division of Agricultural land

• Pakistan is an agricultural country. Most of
  people are farmers by profession. One has land
  which is fulfilling the needs of his family but
  he has to divide the land into his children when
  they got young. After division the land is not
  sufficient to support a family. Now the families
  of his children are suffering and spending their
  lives below poverty line.
• Moral Culture
• The main reason for poverty is the social
  dishonesty and irresponsible behavior of people.
  Every one is trying to get rich by using unfair
  means. A shop keeper is ready to get whole money
  from the pocket of customer. People doing jobs
  are not performing their duties well. In society
  the man considered brave or respectful who do not
  pay taxes or continuously violate the laws. This
  irresponsible behavior continuously increases and
  produces loss for the country.
• Criterion of Poor
• The criterion of poor is that if a person is
  not earning US 367.00 per is year considered
  poor but this was repeated later on the criterion
  is changed and now its US 2.00 per day.

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Effects of poverty

• 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.
• 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.
  

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Solutions to poverty

• 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.

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• 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
  countryu2019s consumption of natural resources.

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People in poverty