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Poverty in Pakistan. Poverty in Pakistan has been recorded by the World Bank at 39.3% using the lower middle-income poverty rate of US$ 3.2 per day for the fiscal year 2020–21. [1] In September 2021, the government stated that 22% percent of its population lives below the national poverty line [2] set at Rs. 3030 (US$10) per month.
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is the leading agency for poverty reduction in Pakistan. [2]In 2017, 'PPAF' won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDIB) Conference held in Karachi, Pakistan [2]
Poverty, unemployment and a population boom contribute to Pakistan's current social problems. As of 2008, over 17% of the total population was found abjectly living below the poverty line [ 3 ] while the unemployment rate, as of 2010, numbered up to an unprecedented 15%. [ 4 ]
Child labour in Pakistan is the employment of children to work in Pakistan, which causes them mental, physical, moral and social harm. Child labour takes away the education from children. [1] The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that in the 1990s, 11 million children were working in the country, half of whom were under age ten.
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a federal unconditional cash transfer poverty reduction program in Pakistan. Launched in July 2008, it was the largest single social safety net program in the country with nearly Rs. 90 billion ($900 million) distributed to 5.4 million beneficiaries in 2016. [3]
Poverty is a prominent issue in Pakistan, with 3 million more people expected to live in poverty since 2018, with about 22% of the population living below the poverty line. [23] As a result of the poverty issue in Pakistan, many parents, especially in rural areas where poverty is more prominent, could not afford to send their child to school as ...
Ehsaas Programme (Urdu: احساس پروگرام lit. 'Compassion') was a social safety net and poverty alleviation programme launched by the Government of Pakistan in 2019. [1] Imran Khan, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, called it a key initiative towards a welfare state that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party had promised to the people ...
The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day, which replaces the $1.90 poverty line, is based on 2017 PPPs. [7] This means that anyone living on less than $2.15 a day is considered to be living in extreme poverty. About 648 million people globally were in this situation in 2019. [7]