New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Both inequality and poverty have increased in Pakistan during the last six years, a report released by the country’s Planning Commission clearly indicated.This is based on a comparison of the level and distribution of household incomes, according to the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) of 2018-19 and 2024-25, respectively, undertaken by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).The worrying statistic is the rise in the incidence of national poverty from 21.9 pe…
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New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Pakistan’s growth in 2025 remained modest, unemployment stayed high and youth unemployment rose, underscoring weak productivity and poor job creation, according to an article in East Asia Forum.The country’s economic growth was modest at around 3 per cent in fiscal year 2024–25, barely keeping pace with population growth, while unemployment remained high at 8 per cent. Sustained growth of 6–7 per cent is necessary to absorb new labour market entrants and reduce un…
Islamabad, Feb 8 (IANS) Pakistan has been ranked last in South Asia’s literacy rating, as per recent data, and its education crisis has become its most severe economic vulnerability, according to a report in the Pakistani media. “A Free and Fair Election Network report shows Pakistan has climbed to a 63 per cent literacy rate, which is a staggering 15 percentage points below the regional average of 78 per cent. In today’s competitive global economy, no nation can hope to thrive with an undereduc…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES), published after a gap of six years, exposes the extreme level of poverty in the country with food-insecure households surging from 15.9 per cent in 2018 to 2019 to a staggering 24.4 per cent in 2024 to 2025, according to a report in the local media.The HIES figures confirm Pakistan’s deepening human development crisis amid shrinking incomes, rising poverty, and widening inequality resulting from the prolonged sp…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) A lack of sustained growth has left real incomes falling which led to a ‘failing Pakistan’ despite signs of macroeconomic stabilisation and reform, a report said on Wednesday. The Express Tribune said in a report citing Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) data that the improved headline indicators alongside deteriorating social outcomes suggest a stark contrast.Real GDP growth averaged just 2.47 per cent across recent years barely in line with population growth…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES 2024-25), released on January 2 this year, indicates a significant increase in household food insecurity, with roughly one in four persons experiencing moderate-to-severe food insecurity in 2024-25, compared to about one in six in 2018-19, according to an article in the Pakistani media.Moderate-to-severe food insecurity rose by 8.43 per cent during this period, going from 15.92 per cent in 2018-19 to 24.35 per cent i…