Pakistan - Widening rich-poor gulf

[z9-ec]

Not from the Blog, but Jang.pk

The blog also refers to Jang.pk





This site's report has been refered for the concept and statistics about 'transitory poor' in Pakistan

The US state govt's report of 2006 (no link provided) has been refered to for the gini index..


Are you saying that both Business Recorder and Jang published inaccurate data? And our resident economist Riaz, seems to be agreeting to these numbers in the blog link I provided

To quote him

"It is not unusual see the rich-poor gap increase during periods of rapid economic growth. India, China and Pakistan have all experienced growing inequalities during the last decade. The wealth must be be generated before it can be distributed.
But if no effort is made to address the growing inequality, then you can have tremendous social strife which hurts all, the rich and the poor.

May 26, 2008 5:36 PM "

Economy of Pakistan: Income Inequality

First off, US State department does not publish any such statistics.

Pakistan


Jang is infamous for fabrication/distortion/blackmail and what not.

 

[FireFighter]

this is the problem in india also,look into the cities

It's a global phenomenon. We've been reading/hearing this since High School.

Third world countries like India, Pak, China even substantially increasing rich-poor gap and usualy bear the brunt of it. The more capitalism spreads, the more draining it is on the poor.

At least in the western world there's a concept of minimum wage and the labour class is protected by unions (although unions are on the decline) and Human Rights Code and active Judicial system. Slavery was abolished long ago, even in Eastern Europe's backyard, Scandinavian countries also abolished slavery long ago.

But in the Subcontinent, slavery not only persists but flourishes during all business cycles. From the doorman who is glued to guard the door for eternity, to the cobbler who inherited the tradition from his great grandfather and will pass it on to his son, to the garbage collector whose life is written picking other's crap, and to the gardener whose generation depends on cutting and maintaining lawns of his owner and will remain serving under the owners boots for the rest of his life.


With no proper education or healthcare or even welfare, prospect of progress or even a single ray of hope, Life is a B!T@$H for these poor.

And you know whats funny, any islamic or secular movement that comes about to challenge this kuffr system through even peaceful and democratic means is cursed and crushed by the oppressive and tyranical Elites in power.

 

[Hasnain2009]

This article depicts complete distortion of reality and politically motivated.

Here are the real reports:

http://www.unescap.org/stat/data/syb2008/ESCAP-SYB2008.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pk.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publica...tan&countryCode=pk&regionCode=sas&rank=109#pk

Whats even more interesting is that the organisation mentioned does not have it's website online.

A whois reveals the following:
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Registrant Name:Azam Saeed
Registrant Organization:Centre for Research on Poverty reduction
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THnx for the info z9-ec bro !