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42% Pakistanis have nominal access to quality food: Govt. Survey

LAHORE With their low-income level, at least 42 per cent population of Pakistan, totalling around 71 million, has nominal access to the average per capita consumption of quality food essential for balanced diet and better health.

The Economic Survey of Pakistan 2011 states that the annual per capita consumption of pulses in Pakistan is 6.8kg (18.5gm per day); cereals, 158.7kg (435gm per day); sugar, 26.5kg (72gm per day); milk, 189 litre (0.511 litre per day); meat, 20.5kg (56gm per day); edible oil, 12.6 litre (34.5 gm per day); and 6 dozen eggs (0.2 egg per day).

It is obviously impossible for a poor person earning Rs106 per day ($1.25) or Rs3224 per month to consume the above-listed edibles.

Rs3,224 per capita means that in an average family of about six people the sole bread earner would have to earn Rs2,100 ($25) per month to remain above poverty level.

The minimum official wage in Pakistan is $82. It is pertinent to mention that the poor rarely get any job that carries higher than minimum wage. The main reason is that most of the workers from poor families are illiterate and have low or no skills at all.

There are many families that have only one working hand. Even if there were two workers in a family they would not be able to lift the family out of poverty.

To live above poverty line but remain poor, half of the family would have to earn minimum monthly income.


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Lmao @ the source Omantribune. You bhartis fail at trolling just give up. Go and do this bullcrap at some bharti forum not here.
 
Price hikes altering food patterns in Pakistan: Oxfam

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Just 45% of Pakistanis surveyed barely have enough to eat daily

ISLAMABAD: A majority of Pakistanis believe that a double-digit price hike in food items has changed their eating patterns, according to a new global report on food prices.

Forty-four per cent of the 16,000 Pakistanis questioned as part of a survey for Oxfam’s GROW campaign said that their diet had changed because of rising food prices while 32 per cent cited health reasons as the cause behind the dietary choices they make.
“Our diets are changing fast and for too many people, it is a change for the worse,” said Neva Khan, Oxfam country director for Pakistan.
“A huge number of people, especially the poorest, are cutting back on the quantity or quality of food they eat because of rising food prices,” she added.
In Pakistan, there has been a consistent rise in the prices of food and beverages. In June, the government’s Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) reported that food and beverage prices in May had increased by 15.8 per cent against the same period last year while prices of perishable food items increased by 17.8 per cent.
According to the survey, 57 per cent of Pakistanis are not eating the same food that they did two years ago when the food crisis began. But what is even more alarming is that 45 per cent of Pakistanis that Oxfam spoke to said they always had enough food to eat on a daily basis. By far, cost was the biggest worry with over half (51 per cent) of respondents in Pakistan, citing it as one of their top concerns. Twenty-eight per cent of people surveyed in Pakistan said they were concerned about the availability of food whilst 19 per cent of people said that healthiness or nutritional value of food they eat is also a key concern.

When asked about the most important factor affecting food supply of food, 28 per cent of respondents in Pakistan highlighted weather patterns and catastrophic events, 26 per cent agreed that government policies in Pakistan and elsewhere were factors and 23 per cent cited the rising price of oil and other transport costs .
The supply of food, says Oxfam, must be improved in Pakistan. “The government needs to undertake substantial agriculture reform and provide stronger land rights for landless poor farmers, provide the required fertilisers, seed and storage facilities needed so poor farmers can grow food and bring rising food prices under control,” Khan says.
Oxfam’s international GROW campaign and Pakistan’s newly-established Dharti campaign are collaborating to ensure that everyone around the world always has enough to eat. The surveys for this report were carried out by international research consultancy GlobeScan.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 18th, 2011.

Price hikes altering food patterns in Pakistan: Oxfam – The Express Tribune
 
well even a "mazdoor" who just take off the goods from truck earns 350 - 500 rupees per day. I don't know which "ghareeb" earns 106 rupees per day... even those who beg on the streets are usually earning good money in my opinion.
 
well even a "mazdoor" who just take off the goods from truck earns 350 - 500 rupees per day. I don't know which "ghareeb" earns 106 rupees per day... even those who beg on the streets are usually earning good money in my opinion.

Well even I wondered the same. My maid servant earns $26.7 per month for working 90 mins every day. But let us not get carried away by one off examples that glare the reality.
 
mirage 5000 , We can discuss that too. But that is a topic for another thread. Why do Pak members digress in the face of economic reality?
 
if from starting forum ban such members along with there hateful false and trolling thread we never see these% threads daily.the BS on this news is who make this surwey who many lahorians know abut this survey ? all are BS journalism .

When Indian economy is discussed based on blogs written by esteemed members of this forum and Indian mindset is discussed based on a book written by a non entity finds takers in this forum, an article published by a popular media house requires banning . Well done. Hypocrisy at best.
 
I came across an article titled, "Shining or declining", hell, i refrained from posting it but what to say of you guys, except.......

:rofl:

And you have nothing to say but one liners. Instead why don't you comment on the article and make the thread a little more constructive.
 
And you have nothing to say but one liners. Instead why don't you comment on the article and make the thread a little more constructive.

the purpose of thread was trolling bashing on Pakistan so another side has right to defend and show mirror ;)
 
the purpose of thread was trolling bashing on Pakistan so another side has right to defend and show mirror ;)

Fair enough, that is your opinion. But brining something outside the remit of the current debate is established, logical and understood trolling. If you lack the capability to establish why you think this article on Pakistan is flawed let us wait for other members who understand economics a tad better.
 
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