Summer Semester 2022

Subject Introduction to Futures Studies Dated: 11 Aug, 2022

Faculty Dr. Aisha Siddiqa Deadline: 01 Jul, 2022

Topics SDG, STEEPL Marks: 10

Relative analysis of SDGs based on STEEPL

Discuss the role of STEEPL on SDGs (Chosen SDGs relative to group number)
What are the effects of STEEPL on each specified SDG (Present in a tabular form):

 Write 2 positive and 2 negative effects (overall).

 Write 2 positive and 2 negative effects (for Pakistan)
 Write 2 suggestions (for Pakistan)

Note: Your answer should be precise not more than two lines. DO
NOT copy, your points should be valid and genuine.
Goal1:
 Poverty is accompanied by a number of positive social impacts. These include improved access to food (that results
+ve Effects in higher nutritional and health levels).
(overall)  Poverty helps with the recycling of goods and incompetent professionals. Poor people often buy goods others have
discarded, including clothes, appliances, automobiles, etc.
 Poor families are more likely to be exposed to series of negative events and “bad luck,” including illness,
-ve Effects depression, eviction, job loss, criminal victimization, and family death
(overall)  Nearly all the potential effects of poverty impact the lives of children—poor infrastructure, unemployment,
malnutrition, domestic violence, child labor, and disease.
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 People can't buy unnecessary things like if we need one thing we cannot buying two things because of inflation.
+ve Effects
(Pakistan)  There are two prominent versions of the idea that poverty promotes economic development. One version argues
that poverty incentivizes workers, thus creating a strong, globally competitive economy.
 Poverty is linked with negative conditions such as homelessness, inadequate nutrition and food insecurity, unsafe
-ve Effects neighborhoods, which adversely impact our nation's children.
(Pakistan)  The main cause of Pakistan's poverty rate is the fact that many Pakistanis lack basic human rights. Many Pakistanis,
often women and children, are begging in the streets throughout their country.
 Further research is required on the features of poverty. Provision of local economic development. Improve workers'
Suggestions productivity.
(Pakistan)  Quality education. Because Education provides children with the knowledge and life skills to realize their full
potential.
 Technology reduces the cost of doing much of the work. The lower cost of production helps to increase the profit
+ve Effects margin, which is essential in eradicating poverty. 
(overall)  Technology has a powerful impact on economies, especially those who are struggling to sustain their country's
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needs. Digital poverty affects nations' unemployment rates, increases inequalities, and financial demands.
 A negative aspect of technological change is its impact on income distribution. Workers who are displaced by
technological advances may find it difficult to become re-employed as new jobs require advanced skills they do not
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possess.
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 As technology-based production processes rely less and less on human labor, more and more unskilled and low-
skilled workers find themselves losing their jobs.
+ve Effects  In Pakistan, Mobile technology has great potential to increase incomes for small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs,
(Pakistan) particularly by connecting them to better markets.
 In Pakistan, most charities are using the internet to collect cash to help the poor and support innovations to end
poverty.
  Technology can be a powerful tool for improving lives in developing Pakistan, but too often technology projects fail
-ve Effects because there is a lack of understanding of local markets and user needs.
(Pakistan)  In Pakistan Where illiteracy is high, technology cannot bring any change in poverty.

 In Pakistan, poverty is increasing day by day. Effective steps of government are required to reduce it. I should
Suggestions suggest to Government will provide more technological institutes in every province.
(Pakistan)  The main reason for poverty in Pakistan is corruption. if we will use technology to reduce corruption. so poverty can
end in our country.
 Economic growth reduces poverty because growth has little impact on income inequality.
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 Recessions result in higher unemployment, lower wages and incomes, and lost opportunities more generally.
(overall)
Education, private capital investments, and economic opportunity are all likely to suffer in the current downturn, and
the effects will be long-lived.
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 There are two prominent versions of the idea that poverty promotes economic development. One version argues
+ve Effects that poverty incentivizes workers, thus creating a strong, globally competitive economy.
(Pakistan) 

 Increased unemployment, loss of income and increased vulnerability have been among the dominant social impacts
-ve Effects of the crisis.
(Pakistan)  The environmental impact of economic growth includes the increased consumption of non-renewable resources,
higher levels of pollution, global warming and the potential loss of environmental habitats
 Pakistan still has the potential to reduce trade costs significantly by improving shipping connectivity and enhancing
its logistics performance.
Suggestions
 Cutting interest rates – makes borrowing cheaper and should increase the disposable income of firms and households
(Pakistan)
– leading to higher spending.

 There is indeed evidence in psychology suggesting that being exposed to green, natural environments improves
mental well-being.
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(overall)  Environmental assets make a far larger relative contribution to national wealth in developing countries than in high
income countries. In many poor countries, environmental resources provide a safety net which can prove to be vital
during crises.
 Environmental problems cause more suffering among the poor overcrowded urban areas increase the risk of disease.
 -ve Effects  Environment cause shortages of wood for fuel and other uses make it more expensive to buy. Soil erosion and
(overall) deforestation cause declining crop yields.
 Building a nature-positive global economy is key after pandemic.
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+ve Effects
(Pakistan)  Good human impacts on the environment include reforestation, using clean energy, and protecting natural preserves
and forests to maintain the natural biodiversity.
 Poor people are the most undefended ones when it comes to the effects of environmental pollution, climate change
-ve Effects and global warming.
(Pakistan)  In Pakistan, Environmental problems cause more suffering among them as environmental damage increases the
impact of floods and other environmental catastrophes. 
 Some strategies that can be used to effectively manage Pakistan's urban air pollution problems include the
advancements to road design and improvement of transport sustainability, increased use of abatement policy by the
Suggestions
Pakistani government, and a conversion to clean fuel energy alternatives like CNG.
(Pakistan)
 Other ways to help tackle this ecological problem of Pakistan include recycling and reusing things, buying organic
products, and avoiding using harsh chemicals such as industrial cleaners and bleach solutions.
 The Government of the Philippines utilizes social protection programs to provide poor families with direct
+ve Effects assistance.
(overall)  Impoverished families can receive cash assistance through a conditional cash transfer program.

 When corruption becomes endemic, it is destructive of the achievement of the type of society that was envisaged by
-ve Effects the founders of the new South Africa.
(overall)  Corruption is a cancer in any society. Left unchecked and unchallenged, corruption leads to failed state status and
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with that, the further exacerbation of poverty.

 Federal unemployment insurance, Medicare, and federal welfare programs, such as Food Stamps, all help poor and
+ve Effects temporarily hard-pressed households make ends meet.
(Pakistan)  The government tried to impart various methods for accelerating economic growth. They really expected that the
poor will be raised above the poverty line with the various growth measures.
 Too much government spending harms society and individuals in several ways. First, it increases the cost of living
-ve Effects via subsidies that drive inflation.
(Pakistan)  Government subsidies artificially increase demand. The result is higher prices that disproportionately harm the
working poor and middle class.
 Increase in allocation of Cash Support Programe. The government has increased the allocation for the Benazir
Suggestions Income Support Programe (BISP) from Rs. 44.00 billion for FY 2012-13 to Rs.
(Pakistan)  Social Security, food assistance, tax credits, and housing assistance can help provide opportunity by ameliorating
short-term poverty and hardship and, by doing so, improving children's long-term outcomes.
+ve Effects  legal aid makes sense. Increasing knowledge and enhancing access to courts and lawyers should be beneficial to
(overall) poor people.
 Unresolved legal problems can also keep those in poverty from escaping it. The inability to enforce child support and alimony can
-ve Effects perpetuate poverty in female-headed households.
(overall) The survey finds that the poor and near-poor are more likely to face legal problems.

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