Pakistan being a developing country is facing multidimensional challenges, such as over population, illiteracy, poor health conditions and low standard of living, so much so that major segment of our society do not have access to safe drinking water and food. Factually, poverty is the deep-rooted cause, which adversely affects the pace of economic growth. There is no quick fix solution to meet these challenges in twenty first century but a concrete and sustained strategy initially to reduce and ultimately eliminate poverty from our society is needed. Unfortunately, the gap between the rich and poor is increasing with the passage of time due to unequal distribution of wealth. In order to improve the social set up and to minimize the gap between “haves” and “have-nots” the Government of Pakistan is already working on a well-defined poverty reduction strategy for the last two – three years.
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