Poverty cannot be described it can only be felt. One knows more about poverty when he is hungry and cannot purchase food, he and his children want new clothes but they can’t purchase it because of low income, he’s sick and doesn’t have money to have medicine, he wants to send his children to school but can’t bear educational expenditures.

These are the lines from my top blog post that I wrote some one year back. The reason for this post being at top was not that ‘Poverty in Pakistan’ is most discussed or a burning issue for the authorities, or is being solved with a sped up rate, but students search for it more as it’s one of the general assignment fro Economics & Finance students.

Well coming to the serious point, Poverty is one of the factors responsible for not only the low standard of living, but also the shaken social infrastructure in the country. Public and Private efforts to alleviate poverty are though appreciable to some extent but the positive correlation in inflation and poverty is not letting the efforts to be as productive as they’re aimed to. What are the possible solutions is something should not be repeated as documents are filled with it. Yes, something really needs to be done is the effective execution.

I lately participated in a research paper competition by IBP “Micro Financing: Challenges and Opportunities”. Micro financing doubtlessly will be much effective technique to fight with the situation in Pakistan. While exploring the facts to come up with the paper I did a little research and was really happy to see the strategies outlined by the related authorities, but the actual situation still seems same. I’m not trying to hit any of the strategy, but when I see scavengers, mostly children, it reminds me of that research! This is what I can see in cities, whereby the poverty level is quite low as compared to the rural areas, so what is the situation in rural areas can easily be assumed at least.

Again a rhetoric by me, that’s been expressed many times on many occasions by many people, but without any change in status quo. So what to do? Let’s don’t talk now and do something. What can be done is really very easy. I read somewhere that ‘If you give a man a fish, he’ll have food for a day, and if you teach him how to fish, he’ll have food for life”. So let’s teach people how to fish!

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