Abstract
Pakistan is one of the most populous but least developed
countries in the world. The population of Pakistan quadrupled
on the verge of 21st century. The age-sex structure of Pakistan is
expanding towards middle age groups, a healthy sing. Fertility,
over past decades, showed a considerable decline. Crude Birth
Rate and Crude Death Rates are also showing declining trends.
However, at the same time, population as a whole is increasing.
On the other hand, half of the population still lives in absolute
poverty, majority in rural areas, which have more severe and
absolute poverty as compared to the urban area. Wealth
distribution is extremely uneven in Pakistan. In neo-Malthusian
analysis, poverty in Pakistan is due only to the rising population
growth. For the people of the country, however, poverty is due
only, as asserted by Boserup, to the inequality in income and
wealth distribution. In a typical village of Pakistan, three-fourth
of the land is owned by only one-tenth of the people. The rest
works on the farms of the elite class as a tenant. A lion’s share of
produce goes to the elites and a very small amount is given to
the tenants who, in no case, can pay off for their annual
expenses—not to speak of expenses on marriage and other
contingencies. This paper, as a theoretical-empirical discourse,
critically takes into account population and poverty phenomena.
It starts with a brief introduction and comprehensively addresses
the population-poverty links with a key focus on Pakistan.
Imran Ahmad Sajid, Shakeel Ahmed, Shahid Ali Khattak . (2014) POPULATION - POVERTY CONNECTION IN PAKISTAN: IS IT REALLY A PROBLEM?, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 51, Issue 1.
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