Dealing with rich-poor divide
May 24, 2021
CPI basket includes luxurious items while SPI based on basic necessity items. About 60% of the population falls in the “transitory poor” category it means a substantial population has no access to luxurious items; their needs revolve around basic necessities. The rules for indexation to the CPI have several potential disadvantages. They prevent real wage and employment adjustment in the presence of real shocks, causing suboptimal employment. In the presence of nominal shocks and inflation, indexation to prices can generate inconsistencies. The shock of inflation is not uniform for basic and luxurious commodities. The inflation through CPI is not suitable to be used for indexation as it cannot capture the inflationary shock to all income groups Pay Indexation in Pakistan, Saud Ahmed Khan and Amena Urooj and Ahmad Fraz.
PM Imran Khan congratulates Sania Nishtar, Ehsaas team after World Bank acknowledgement
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SAPM on Poverty Alleviation Sania Nishtar (L) and PM Imran Khan (R). Photo: File
Congratulations to Sania and the Ehsaas team for achieving milestone and well-deserved international recognition : PM Imran Khan.
World Bank report features Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme in list of top four global social protection interventions.
WB report says Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme ranks fourth globally in terms of the number of people covered and 3rd globally in terms of percentage of population covered amongst those that covered over 100 million people.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday congratulated his special assistant Dr Sania Nishtar and the Ehsaas team after their efforts were acknowledged in a World Bank report.
World Bank lists Ehsaas Cash Programme among top global social protection measures
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Sunday May 16, 2021
Hundreds of women line up outside a centre to receive their Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme stipends. Photo Sania Nishtar Twitter
As per World Bank data, Pakistan s Ehsaas programme ranks high in the planned versus actual coverage rates social programmes list as well.
The govt had said it provided cash stipends of Rs 12,000 to 15 million households last year.
World Bank report credits Pakistan for coming up with an innovative hybrid targeting approach to enroll new beneficiaries.
In a recent report on social protection measures taken by several countries during the pandemic, the World Bank has recognised the efforts of the Pakistan government in uplifting the poor by featuring the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme in its list of top four global social protection interventions.
PM announces Rs 446bn poor-centric package for Sindh’s backward areas Package comprises restoration of 200,000 acres of land, construction of Nai Gaj Dam and Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway, gas supply to 160 villages and 30,000 new power connections to deprived districts
April 17, 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday unveiled a historic development package worth Rs 446 billion to uplift backward areas of opposition-led Sindh province through power supply, irrigation, sports and communication projects.
The prime minister, while addressing a ceremony to hand over business loan cheques among the entitled youths here, said proposed projects would start getting shape within a month as feasibility studies have already been completed. He said he is pleased to visit the interior Sindh with a good news of development package, which otherwise is the responsibility of the provincial government under the 18th Amendment. He said Interior Sindh is the poorest area of the country, besides South