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Recovery, poverty permitting
EDITORIAL: The government’s repeated assurances that Pakistan’s economy is improving sound increasingly hollow when measured against the living conditions of its people. The latest United Nations Development Programme figures show that 38.3 percent of Pakistan’s population suffers from multidimensional poverty, facing overlapping deprivations in health, education and basic living standards. Another 12.9 percent remains vulnerable to such poverty. These findings should cause considerable discomfort in official circles, particularly among an economic team that has become adept at presenting impr...
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