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While economic vulnerability is a key factor in the rise of poverty in Pakistan, vulnerability also arises from social powerlessness, political disenfranchisement, and ill-functioning and distortionary institutions, and these also are important causes of the persistence of vulnerability among the poor. [27] Kids playing in dirty water.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggests that poverty is the greatest single cause behind child labour. Pakistan has a per-capita income of approximately $1900. A middle class person in Pakistan earns around $6 a day on average. The average Pakistani has to feed nine or ten people with their daily wage.
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]
Pakistan's fiscal deficit will be significantly worse than projected this fiscal year, with the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic pushing millions into unemployment and poverty ...
Lack of education, social stigma, and now catastrophic flooding have all exacerbated period poverty in Pakistan The Recent Floods Have Put a New Focus on the Problem of Period Poverty in Pakistan ...
2022 Pakistan floods in summer cause over $30 billion dollars in economic losses in Pakistan. [43] At the end of March 2022, the State Bank of Pakistan's reserves stood at $11.425bn, but they gradually tanked to an almost four-year low of $6.715bn on 2 December. Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves equal to just five weeks of merchandise ...
Poverty in Pakistan (7 P) Prostitution in Pakistan (2 C, 1 P) V. Violence in Pakistan (19 C, 2 P) W. Women's rights in Pakistan (7 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Social ...
The number of people living in relative poverty, across the country, tends to vary from state to state, e.g. in California (in 2018), 4.66 million people lived in poverty versus in Minnesota with about 456,000 people that lived in poverty. [61] The causes of relative poverty in the US are complex and revolve around the following: