Poverty Assessment : Poverty in Pakistan - Vulnerabilities, Social Caps, and Rural Dynamics

This report is part of an ongoing project to understand poverty, growth, and human development in Pakistan. It argues that if the country does not close its social gap, its long-term ability to grow economically, alleviate poverty, and sustain its debt will be fundamentally compromised. Spanning social, economic, and fiscal difficulties, the country's current predicament is not rooted in a discrete set of policies amenable to rapid rectification, but in structural factors linked very often to issues of governance. It is within this context of a broader failure of policy and implementation that one should understand Pakistan's inability to take sufficient advantage of the growth that it has enjoyed in the past, to attract investment, build enough infrastructure, or to promote adequate advances in social indicators. Over the past decade, stagnating policy and a persistent, even widening, social gap are direct legacies of these failures. As this report suggests, issues of governance, for instance, in the form of the lack of accountability, are at the heart of many of the dificulties encountered in mitigating poverty and broadening access to social services in Pakistan. Neither debt reform nor the mere availability of donor funds is likely to dispel these problems. The strategies and tactics outlined in this report take this into account, emphasizing the need to consider and implement concomitant policies in a comprehensive, mututally reinforcing manner.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2002-10-28
Subjects:	POVERTY ASSESSMENTS, GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, FISCAL DEFICITS, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, POVERTY INCIDENCE, SOCIAL INEQUALITY, VULNERABILITY, LABOR MARKETS, RULE OF LAW, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS, SERVICE DELIVERY, ACCESS TO EDUCATION, LAND OWNERSHIP, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, SOIL DEGRADATION, ACCESS TO CREDIT, FACTOR MARKETS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS, RISK MANAGEMENT, RURAL POVERTY, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES, INFANT MORTALITY, HEALTH INDICATORS, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, MALNUTRITION ABATEMENT, AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, ANATOMY, CASE STUDIES, CHILDBIRTH, CHRONIC POVERTY, COLLECTIVE ACTION, COMMERCIAL BANKS, COMPARATOR COUNTRIES, CONSULTATIVE PROCESS, CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, CONSUMPTION PATTERNS, CONSUMPTION POVERTY, COUNTRY CONTEXT, CURRENCY UNIT, DATA, DATA SOURCES, DEBT, DEMOGRAPHICS, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DIVERSIFICATION, DRINKING WATER, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC SHOCKS, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT STATUS, EQUAL DISTRIBUTION, EXPENDITURE CATEGORIES, EXPENDITURE GROUP, EXPENDITURE SURVEY, EXTERNALITIES, FEMALE EDUCATION, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FOOD POLICY RESEARCH, GENDER DISPARITIES, GENDER GAPS, GINI COEFFICIENT, GIRLS, GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS, GROWTH INCIDENCE, GROWTH PERFORMANCE, GROWTH RATE, GROWTH RATES, HEAD-COUNT RATIO, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH CENTERS, HIGH VOLATILITY, HOUSEHOLD, HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD DATA, HOUSEHOLD HEAD, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HOUSEHOLD WELFARE, HUMAN CAPITAL, ILLITERACY, IMPROVED ACCESS, INCOME LEVEL, INCOME LEVELS, INEQUALITY, INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERVENTION, LAND INEQUALITY, LOCAL RESEARCHERS, MACROECONOMIC STABILITY, MALNUTRITION, MEAN CONSUMPTION, MORTALITY, MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS, NATIONAL POVERTY, NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS, PARENTS, PER CAPITA INCOME, PERSISTENT POVERTY, POLICY DECISIONS, POLICY IMPLICATIONS, POLICY MAKERS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POVERTY ANALYSIS, POVERTY ASSESSMENT, POVERTY ASSESSMENT WORK, POVERTY CHANGES, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY MONITORING, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, POVERTY TRENDS, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRODUCTIVITY, PROPERTY RIGHTS, PUBLIC EDUCATION, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW, PUBLIC POLICIES, PUBLIC PROGRAMS, PUBLIC PROVISION, PUBLIC SECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE, PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY, PUBLIC SERVICES, PUBLIC SPENDING, QUALITATIVE DATA, QUALITATIVE INFORMATION, QUALITATIVE POVERTY, REFORM PROGRAM, RESEARCH INSTITUTE, RURAL AREAS, RURAL INHABITANTS, RURAL POOR, RURAL POPULATION, SAMPLE SIZE, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY ENROLLMENT, SHORT TERM, SIGNIFICANT IMPACT, SOCIAL ACTION, SOCIAL GROUPINGS, SOCIAL INDICATORS, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL SECTORS, SOCIAL SERVICES, SOCIAL SPENDING, STRUCTURAL REFORM, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, UNDERSTANDING POVERTY, URBAN AREAS, URBAN POPULATION, URBAN POVERTY, WORKERS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/10/2050407/pakistan-poverty-assessment-poverty-pakistan-vulnerabilities-social-caps-rural-dynamics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15335
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!