Pakistan Poverty Down to 17% in 2007-2008

[foqia khan]

The Centre for Poverty Reduction and Social Policy Development (CPRSPD), using the(Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey 2007-08, also estimated poverty for the year 2007-08. They found that poverty at national level declined sharply from 22.3 percent in 2005-06 to 17.2 percent in 2007-08. Poverty, both in rural and urban areas also registered sharp declines. The estimates of the CPRSPD were also validated by the experts from the World Bank.





Center for Poverty Reduction (CPRSPD), backed by the United Nations Development Program(UNDP), has estimated that Pakistan's poverty at national level declined sharply from 22.3 percent in 2005-06 (versus India's poverty rate of 42%) to 17.2 percent in 2007-08. Prior to this report, the 2009 UN Human and Income Poverty Report said the people living under $1.25 a day in India is 41.6 percent, about twice as much as Pakistan's 22.6 percent. The latest poverty estimate of 17.2% has been validated by the World Bank.

 

[gazoomartian]

The Centre for Poverty Reduction and Social Policy Development (CPRSPD), using the(Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey 2007-08, also estimated poverty for the year 2007-08. They found that poverty at national level declined sharply from 22.3 percent in 2005-06 to 17.2 percent in 2007-08. Poverty, both in rural and urban areas also registered sharp declines. The estimates of the CPRSPD were also validated by the experts from the World Bank.





Center for Poverty Reduction (CPRSPD), backed by the United Nations Development Program(UNDP), has estimated that Pakistan's poverty at national level declined sharply from 22.3 percent in 2005-06 (versus India's poverty rate of 42%) to 17.2 percent in 2007-08. Prior to this report, the 2009 UN Human and Income Poverty Report said the people living under $1.25 a day in India is 41.6 percent, about twice as much as Pakistan's 22.6 percent. The latest poverty estimate of 17.2% has been validated by the World Bank.

thank you sister, well done. india lags behind pak. may they lag behind in everything soon

 

[hkniazi]

that is a one good news. Thanks to the policies of Musharraf. they might were not perfect but they were taking the country in the right direction. lets see now what these gods of democracy,( [zardari] [shahbaz sharif] [nawaz] [rehman-malik] :twisted: ), will do to the nation.

 

[Pakistani Lion]

Makes me proud that a lot of people are doing lots of right things and not barking shining this and shining that like other countries!!!

 

[adonis_look]

Refernce please..On second thought don't bother enjoy your china style book keeping

Please will you stop begging everywhere now given how weel you are doign going by those numbers or begging will continue in unison..

 

[furry87]

Refernce please..On second thought don't bother enjoy your china style book keeping

Please will you stop begging everywhere now given how weel you are doign going by those numbers or begging will continue in unison..

You are the biggest moron on the planet, the source is given ,ur too stupid to know where the source is written i guess..PS india does take loans from IMF and does beg as well please dont make me confront you with proof. Stop with this begging tana and stop the dalits and child prostitutes from whoring their bodies out for money you imbecile.

 

[sher_khan]

Refernce please..On second thought don't bother enjoy your china style book keeping

Please will you stop begging everywhere now given how weel you are doign going by those numbers or begging will continue in unison..

Actually all the info depicted above is available on the world bank website. Do a search on poverty data 2008 and you will get the info.

Get out of your shell of fictional shining india. The world will start making sense again.