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Poverty by Definition: How Pakistan Counts the Poor Out to Pay for the Military
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Poverty by Definition: How Pakistan Counts the Poor Out to Pay for the Military
Pakistan now measures its own poverty against a line of PKR 8,484 a month. According to the Pakistan Economic Survey, that is the consumption a single adult needs to meet the most basic food and non-food requirements, calculated through the cost of basic needs approach rather than from anyone’s pay slip, and it works out to roughly PKR 283 a day. Set the threshold there and the official tally turns more forgiving. Even so, the same survey puts a…
·Kabul, Afghanistan
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