“POVERTY WITH REFERENCE TO PAKISTAN”BRIEF REVIEW
Qazi Shamveel Bin Tousif Student BBA (Hons)1
st
Year
POVERTY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE POPULATION OF PAKISTANDISCUSSION HAS BEEN BASED ON SECONDARY DATA AND IT IS ANEVIDENCE THAT POVERTY IN PAKISTAN IS WIDELY AND EVENLYDISTRIBUTED AND MUCH LARGER PORTION OF POPULATION, ABOUT33% IS CONSIDERED VULNERABLE AND LIKELY TO SINK IN POVERTY.
POVERTY
has always, had several not entirely separable meanings and is always definedaccording to conventions of the society in which it occurs. We may distinguish two meanings:
(1)Social poverty(2) Moral poverty
Social poverty
implies not merely economic inequality (of property, income, livingstandard, etc) but also inequality, that is, a relation of inferiority, dependence, or exploitation.
Pauperism
describes a category of people unable to maintain themselves at all, or tomaintain themselves at the level conventionally regarded as minimal, without outsideassistance.
Moral poverty
Defines the place of poverty in the value system of a society or of itssubgroups and institutions: that is, it defines whether poverty is morally acceptable and whatstatus it confers or prevents the poor man from enjoying.In his book ‘
Development as freedom’
,
Nobel Laureate AMARTYA SEN (2003)
argues that development consists of the removal of un-freedom; In other words POVERTY ISUN-FREEDOM.The social category of the poor arises in stratified societies in which theupper and lower strata have direct experience of each other. The poor are normallycontrasted with the rich: and a causal relationship is often assumed, as in the GermanProverbs “Poverty is the rich man’s cow” and “Poverty is the hand and foot of wealthIf worker – consumers are incapable of effective resistance, either politically throughthe exercise of meaningful suffrage or economically through strong labor unions, the sheer pace of industrialization is bound to produce widespreadpoverty.
P
OVERTY
IN
P
AKISTAN
is a major economic issue. Nearly one-quarter of thepopulation is classified poor as of October 2006. The declining trend on poverty in the countryseen during the 1970s and 1980s was reversed in the 1990s by poor Federal policies andrampant corruption.
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