Author:
Anwar Talat,Qureshi Sarfraz Khan,Ali Hammad
Abstract
Poverty imposes a repressive weight on Pakistan particularly
in rural areas where almost one third of population and majority of the
poor live. Although poverty has declined during the 1970s and 1980s, the
absolute number of poor has increased substantially since the 1960s.
Despite a number of policy initiatives and programmes undertaken for
poverty alleviation by various governments, absolute poverty
particularly in rural areas continued to rise in Pakistan during the
1990s. Much has been written about poverty in Pakistan so far. A number
of attempts have been made by various authors/institutions to estimate
the rural poverty in Pakistan in the 1990s. Discussions have remained
limited to estimating the regional and provincial trends for rural
poverty in Pakistan. Although landlessness and rural poverty in Pakistan
received significant attention in the 1970 and 1980, discussions on this
issue remained limited in the 1990s. Landlessness and rural poverty are
closely linked since land is a principal asset in a rural economy like
Pakistan. Landlessness to agricultural land is considered to be the most
important contributor to rural poverty. A high concentration of
landownership is a major constraint to agricultural growth and
alleviation of poverty. There is a general perception that highly skewed
distribution of land in Pakistan is one of the important causes of
widespread poverty particularly in rural areas.
Publisher
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Subject
Development,Geography, Planning and Development
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