comment: Politics of poverty —Shahzad Chaudhry
Monday, June 15, 2009
Daily Times,Pakistan, Monday, June 15, 2009
comment: Shahzad Chaudhry
Dependence on donors’ pledges is so pervasive that most television channels now need to run a line asking the nation to pray for the success of the prayer on which the Budget is premised!
In the days leading up to the next fiscal year’s budget, what has been keeping the mandarins of the finance ministry engaged has been another matter — how poor are Pakistanis?
By all accounts, and some verified numerical processes of none other than the World Bank, the poverty rate for 2007-8 had been determined at 17 percent. This would have been a six percent reduction in poverty over the 2006-7 performance of the economy when the poverty figure came down from thirties to around 23 percent.
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comment: Shahzad Chaudhry
Dependence on donors’ pledges is so pervasive that most television channels now need to run a line asking the nation to pray for the success of the prayer on which the Budget is premised!
In the days leading up to the next fiscal year’s budget, what has been keeping the mandarins of the finance ministry engaged has been another matter — how poor are Pakistanis?
By all accounts, and some verified numerical processes of none other than the World Bank, the poverty rate for 2007-8 had been determined at 17 percent. This would have been a six percent reduction in poverty over the 2006-7 performance of the economy when the poverty figure came down from thirties to around 23 percent.
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Labels: Budget, Development, Economy, Poverty
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