IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Business Management (IMPACT: IJRBM) ISSN(E): 2321-886X; ISSN(P): 2347-4572 Vol. 2, Issue 6, Jun 2014, 1-12 © Impact Journals RATIONALE EFFECTS OF POVERTY IN PAKISTAN MAHAM TARIQ1, ASMA IDREES2, MUZAMMIL ABID3 & TANZILA SAMIN4 1,2,3School of Business Management, NFC Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research, Punjab, Pakistan 4Lecturer, School of Business Management, NFC Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research, Punjab, Pakistan ABSTRACT Poverty is a viral disease; it is a situation when basic needs remained unfulfilled. Poverty rate in Pakistan 21% and 54% population live below poverty line. Pakistan is the 6th largest populated country in the world and the following paper is a study of those sectors which are affected by poverty under the reference of current and past year situation of Pakistan. These sectors are affected by poverty directly and indirectly. Unemployment, Societal crime, Health, Education, per capita income and economy down fall is directly due to poverty where as sectors like Investment and loan, Agricultural and Industry, Infrastructure, Political stability and Government is affected indirectly. Further Indirect factors are related to direct factors with respect to poverty to check how they affect each other due to poverty. In the same way direct factors are also related to direct factors with respect to poverty. KEYWORDS: Poverty, Effects, Comparison INTRODUCTION Poverty is most likely a bitter truth which silently forces one to die in the end. Poverty is a curse which’s depression is more than the fear of losing something. Poverty is a condition where’s a person cannot fulfill his basic needs of food, clothing and shelter. There’s a high trend of poverty in Pakistan, according to Finance Minister of Pakistan Ishaq Dar 54 %of the country’s population is poor (2014). Estimates of the World Bank 2011, almost 40 percent of 107 developing countries are under effect of poverty. Pakistani government uses the World Bank’s definition of poverty, which is any person earning less than $1.25 per day. In Pakistan, that figure comes to any person living on less than Rs. 3,243 per month1. Pakistan is ranked among the 43 countries most exposed to poverty risks which mean poverty trend is high2. Poverty is a major issue in Pakistan resulting in many people to die of hunger or depression. In Pakistan 20% increase in food prices will result in 8% of poverty as a whole3. According to World Bank 2005-2008, 83% of food prices rose globally. This caused in high prices and less demand which eventually leads to less purchase of basic needs and poverty took its first step. It is a basic effect of poverty; there are further more sectors which are affected by poverty directly and indirectly. By analyzing data of last five decades poverty in Pakistan leads to two conclusions: 1) poverty is not constant it fluctuates 2) large number of population is near poverty line4. 1Economic Survey 2010-2011 2PakistanToday.com, 2011 3Theresa Thompson and Azam Amjad, 2008. 4G.M. Arif and Shujaat Farooq 2012-Pakistan Institute Of Development Economics Islamabad (Pide) Impact Factor(JCC): 1.3423 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us 2 Maham Tariq, Asma Idrees, Muzammil Abid & Tanzila Samin This study is to analysis the impact of poverty on different sectors of Pakistan and its relationship with each other. First section will provide the detail effect of poverty and its long lasting issues. This consist of poverty’s effect on Education sector, Infrastructure, Per Capita Income, causing Unemployment, Downfall of Economy, Political Instability and Law, Government sector includes; Rise in corruption, Democratic Accountability, and Bureaucratic quality causing unequal distribution of income. Second section will explain that how these effects are related to each other and how poverty’s affect forces one sector to affect other sector. Figure 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this research is to know the situation of Pakistan as a whole after the attack of poverty and to study all the effects of poverty on country as well as on life of country’s people. Firstly Direct and Indirect effects of poverty on different sectors are studied and then these effects on sectors are compared to each other to check how poverty infection affects one sector and forcing other to get infected too. LITERATURE REVIEW The findings of study on poverty worldwide showed different aspects and effects of poverty. As the fluctuating nature of poverty it rose at provincial level1. Study showed that the stress of poverty effect mental as well as physical health of younger children2. Number of family members is also linked with the flow of poverty3. The level of investment and educational level of household head is also affected by poverty4. With decreased level of investment economy will progress less and from study it is said that growth is right instrument for controlling poverty if it comes with less inequality as it changes income distribution5. According to another survey poverty is more related to rural areas in Pakistan and Index Copernicus Value: 3.0 - Articles can be sent to [email protected] Rationale Effects of Poverty in Pakistan 3 two third of its population lives in rural area lacking basic needs6. Among the better performing areas are Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and central Punjab. Among the poorly performing regions are rural Sindh, southern Punjab and most of Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Though from the past research it can be seen ‘growth is good for poor’7 which means poverty is disastrous and it affects all sectors of the country for which growth is necessary. For growth manpower is required but unfortunately in Pakistan manpower is under gender discrimination i.e. women are under more poverty as compared to men resulting in poverty due to discrimination in labor force8. Moreover according to a survey on average poor households had 75% more children than non poor house hold and with low income level they lack education9. Source: HIES 2011-2012 Figure 2: Percentage of Monthly Income Share by Source The given information showed the changing pattern income level of both rich and poor household in urban and rural areas. Graph showed the declined of income percentage from the period 2010-2011 to 2011-2012. Worth noticing here is decrease in percentage of wages and salary which played significant role in buying living causing in poverty. Study showed that the role of income on the decision to commit criminal acts by individuals. The author stated that the principal theoretical reason for believing that low income increases the tendency to commit crime1. The high food prices may have devastating effects on the poor food deficit regions2. 1, 8, 9Asian Development Bank, 2002 2Marthae.Wadsworth, Taliraviv et. all 3, 4 G.M. Arif and Shujaat Farooq 2012-Pakistan Institute Of Development Economics Islamabad- PIDE 5Martin Ravallion, 2005. 6Pakistantoday.com, 2011 7Dollar, David and Aart Kraay, 2002 1Fleisher (1966) cited in Syed Yasir Mahmood Gillani 2About 800 million people suffering from chronic hunger could be further affected by rising prices (FAO, 2008), cited in Zahoor ul Haq et, all 2008. Impact Factor(JCC): 1.3423 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us 4 Maham Tariq, Asma Idrees, Muzammil Abid & Tanzila Samin SECTION I Unemployment Unemployment can definitely lead to poverty. Having loss in the income can cause people to move in the cheaper location, to fulfill their basic needs. Unemployment leads to poverty because without employment a person has no reliable source of income. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics unemployment rate of Pakistan is 6%. Every person has certain needs and wants (this could be related to consumption etc.) without any income a person cannot fulfill his/her basic needs. Poverty is a situation in which a person is unable to satisfy his/her wants. Now employment may be denied to a person because: that person might not have basic skills needed to accomplish the task, or because of ill health, or because of discrimination /social exclusion. These reasons are either causes/outcomes of poverty. Total population is estimated 184.35 million during the year 2012-13 however, in 2011-12 the population was180.71 million. The total number of people employed during 2010-11 was 53.84 million, 0.63 million more than the preceding year1. Total unemployment rate has increased to 6.0 percent in 2012-13. The number of unemployed people increased from 1.94 million to 2.1 million in Punjab, in Sindh from 0.57 million to 0.70 million in 2010-11. In KPK the situation is different the unemployed people decreased from 0.55 million to 0.53 million and in Baluchistan unemployed people increased from 0.06 million to 0.07 million in 2010-112. Education Education is one of the deliberate factors which clearly distinguished between poor and non poor3. High rate of poverty have a very worst impact in Pakistan. As Poverty is increasing this causes difficultly for people to fulfill their needs instead of being educated. It seems that very low levels of education and wealth do not drive people to join a terrorist movement. It may sound counter-intuitive, but if we think about it, the very poor and uneducated usually have different types of thoughts because they usually don’t know about the outside world, they have very limited knowledge about anything. According to economic survey of Pakistan 2012-2013 Pakistan have a literacy rate of 58%, in which 70% are male and 47% female. In the rural areas of Pakistan there is 47% while in urban areas it is 75%. Literacy remains much higher in urban areas than in rural areas and much higher for men than women4. Societal Crime 21% population of Pakistan is below the poverty line. There is an increase in Poverty. The people cannot able to support their family and not either can fulfill the basic need which causes people to divert from the lawful way and deviate towards crime, Which leads to robbery, theft and different types of crime. Pakistan is having a high terrorism now a day which can be because of poverty. Daily average of crime in Pakistan is 1144 which is relatively much high if compare with the recent population5. Moreover, unemployment, inflation and income inequality are also important determinants of crime6. 1, 2Syed Yasir Mahmood Gillain et. al, 2009. 3Asian Development Bank, 2002 4Economic Survey on Education 5UNDP Pakistan Annual Report 2013 6Hafiz Hanzla Jalil Index Copernicus Value: 3.0 - Articles can be sent to [email protected] Rationale Effects of Poverty in Pakistan 5 Table 1: Co Integrating Coefficient Variables Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistics Urbanization 0.020590 (0.00414) 4.9734 Unemployment 0.012471 (0.00606) 2.0579 Inflation 0.010611 (0.00200) 5.3055 Source: Urbanization and Crime by Hafiz Hanzla Jalil and Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal This table confirms that all three variables are the important determinants of crimes in Pakistan. Positive results shows that urbanization affects criminal rate at large level as less expansion is been done in urban areas resulting in scarcity of resources which leads to poverty and motivate people to get involved in criminal activities. Secondly, unemployment which is result of poverty has also positive effect on crime. Unemployment means less opportunities of income or earning which thereby helps in increasing the rate of crime. The third economic variable, inflation, also has positive impact on crimes in case of Pakistan. Inflation has a direct relation with the real income of an individual. Consequently, if that individual desires to keep his utility at the same level, he will have to raise his real income, which may lead him to the criminal activities. Table 2 Total Population Total No. of Crime Growth Crime per Thousand Year in Millions Crimes Reported Rate (%) of Population 2000 139.76 388909 –9.94 278 2003 149.03 400680 3.03 267 2005 153.96 453264 13.12 294 2007 158.17 538048 18.71 340 2009 180 603,626 15 – Source: Bureau of Police Research and Development; Pakistan Economic Survey This table shows how crime is increasing year to year is Pakistan. Due to increase in population, poverty is also increasing due to bad policies. Pakistan having a positive growth in Crime rate which is 15% in 2009. According to this Table (2009) total crimes which are reported in 603,626 which shows the impact of Poverty. Health Health is a crucial part of well being and has essential economic benefits. Pakistan is among the 115 countries in the world recognizes the constitutional right of health. In Pakistan, health expenditure is as current and development expenditure. For the current year 2012-13, the current expenditure is as Rs. 62.12 billion and development Rs.17.34 billion. They together estimates as 79.46 billion which in term of percentage is 0.35 percent of GDP and has increase by 44.16 percent over last year of 2011-127. Poverty also affects health and has obvious effects include health and mental diseases. Many people in our country go to sleep without taking food almost every day. Some prominent diseases which are more likely to affect people below the poverty line include AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, measles, pneumonia etc, which are attributed to lack of basic healthcare facilities. The diseases which can result in poverty include a range of mental illnesses which tend to hinder the ability of a person to work. Impact Factor(JCC): 1.3423 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us 6 Maham Tariq, Asma Idrees, Muzammil Abid & Tanzila Samin Source: Health Economic Survey of Pakistan Figure 3: Health Expenditure There are 1,207 hospitals, 5,382 dispensaries, 5,404 basic health units and 696 maternity and child health centers in Pakistan as compared to 980 hospital, 5,039 dispensaries, 5,449 basic health units and 851 maternity and child health centers in the same period of last year8. The number of doctors has increased to 160,289, 12,544 dentists, 82,119 nurses and 101,173 hospital beds in the country during 2012-13 compared to 152,188 doctors, 11,584 dentists, 77,683 nurses and 107,537 hospital beds last year. The population and health facilities ratio worked out 1,127 persons per doctors, 14,406 persons per dentist and 1,786 persons per hospital bed. It was 1,164 persons per doctor, 15,288 per dentist and availability of one bed for 1647 person in 2011-12. But unfortunately income of public is low and prices of these facilities are high and poverty forces them to spend less on their health causing fatal diseases. Moreover if health facilities are available at low prices than these facilities are usually under standard. So one way or another, poverty affects health directly. Per Capita Income Per capita income is regarded as one of the key indicators of economic well-being over a period of time. The per capita income in dollar is increased from $1072 to $ 1,368 in 2012-139. The main factors, which are responsible for increase in per capita income, include acceleration in real GDP growth, relatively lower growth in population and the stable exchange rate. Source: Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey, 2012-13 Figure 4: Per Capita Income 7, 8 Economic Survey on Health and Nutrition 9 Economic Surveys on Growth and Investment Index Copernicus Value: 3.0 - Articles can be sent to [email protected] Rationale Effects of Poverty in Pakistan 7 Downfall in Economy Poverty is affecting economy of Pakistan at a high spark. Almost 21% of Pakistan’s population is below the poverty line which shows how badly poverty impact on the economy growth. According to the economic survey of Pakistan (2012-2013) this show the agriculture growth this year stood at 3.3 percent as compared to 3.5 percent during the last year. Due to poverty people just try to fulfill their basic needs without considering anything else in the surrounding. This leads to lack of interest of people of the nation to pay attention towards their role in the economy. Investment and Loan Population of Pakistan is over 183 million and 54% of Pakistan living under poverty line. So Pakistan is dependent upon the foreign aid given by United States and UK, Saudi Arabia and bilateral and multilateral aids. Saudi Arabia gives $1.5 Billion financial aid to cover up falling Pakistani rupee in 2014. Due to poverty in Pakistan a common man cannot fulfill his social or personal needs people invest but the interest rate is increasing as well. The benchmark interest rate in Pakistan was last recorded at 10 percent. Interest Rate in Pakistan averaged 12.58% from 1992 until 2014, reaching an all-time high of 20% in October of 1996 and a record low of 7.50% in November of 2002. Interest Rate in Pakistan is reported by the State Bank of Pakistan. Table 3: Foreign Investments Year Value 2005 ($2,157,000,000.00) 2006 ($4,164,000,000.00) 2007 ($5,492,000,000.00) 2008 ($5,389,000,000.00) 2009 ($2,267,000,000.00) 2010 ($1,971,000,000.00) 2011 ($1,246,770,000.00) Source: State Bank of Pak The latest value for Foreign direct investment, net (BOP, current US$) in Pakistan was ($1,246,770,000.00) as of 2011. Over the past 6 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between ($1,246,770,000.00) in 2011 and ($5,492,000,000.00) in 2007, according to Economic Survey of Pakistan. Proven fact is that trade brings down poverty level all over the world. So now a day’s Pakistan must adopt a new mantra “No more aid but trade” and though policies are in progress for this quoted by economic survey of Pakistan. Government has to impose taxes to raise its revenue. Imposition of taxes reduces the disposable income of people. Lack of disposable income means low savings and low investment and poverty. Government has to impose taxes to raise its revenue. Imposition of taxes reduces the disposable income of people. Lack of disposable income means low savings and low investment and poverty. Due to backwardness, political instabilities and improper availability of infrastructure the attraction for foreign investment is not suitable in Pakistan. Lack of foreign investment means less employment opportunities and it became the cause of poverty. According to State bank of Pakistan, Pakistan enters 2013 with Rs13trillion public debt, budget deficit of 8.5 percent with dollar touching close to Rs100 and in case economic managers of the government continue to do the business as usual, then by end June 2013 Country’s debt will stand at Rs14.5 trillion to Rs15 trillion thus each Pakistani inherits Rs 80,000 as loan burden. Impact Factor(JCC): 1.3423 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us 8 Maham Tariq, Asma Idrees, Muzammil Abid & Tanzila Samin Agriculture and Industrial Development Foreign direct investments are only$1,246,770,000.00 in 2011. Pakistan is facing many political and economic issues which may lead to less investments. The agricultural sector plays a central role in Pakistan’s economy. It is the second largest sector, accounting for over 21 percent of GDP, and remains by far the largest employer, 45 percent of the country’s total labor force is absorbed in it. But due to poverty from last few years decline in development of agriculture sector is recorded, which’s major cause is migration of people from agriculture to industrial sector1. Poverty directly affects people and for living people migrates and indirectly cause decline in agricultural and industrial sector. Pakistan Major crops, accounting for 32.8% of agricultural value added, registered a negative growth of 0.2 percent as against robust growth of 7.3 percent last year. Minor crops contributing 11.1% to overall agriculture posted negative growth of 1.2 percent. Minor crops production has declined for the three years since 2004‐052, a worrying trend which is contributing to food price inflation. PARC organized the seminar in collaboration with International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Planning Commission of Pakistan (PCP), Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP) and other national and international organizations’. Speaking on the occasion, FAST rector and former chairman of PARC and ICIMOD board member, Dr Amir Muhammed said that agriculture sector had great potential to boost country’s economic growth and productivity. “He said that owing to increasing population, land use was increasing and water resources were decreasing, adding that there was a pressing need for future planning.” Moreover In agriculture sector people have adopted just subsistence farming styles. They are not farming according to the commercial patterns. Sometimes due to natural calamities and use of backward techniques of production, there is reduction in production and it decreases the income of poor farmers. Pakistan's industrial sector accounts for about 24% of GDP. Cotton textile production and apparel manufacturing are Pakistan's largest industries, accounting for about 66% of the merchandise exports and almost 40% of the employed labor force3. While Industrial production growth rate: 6% (2005) Large-scale manufacturing growth rate: 19.9% (2005)4. Due to the problems like power shortage, lack of new technology, lack of trained manpower both the industries going down day by day which cause poverty for the economy. Political Instability Political instability lowers private investment, slows economic growth, and gives rise to unemployment and poverty. Political instability breeds corruption, miss governance, shortens policy-makers’ horizon, inconsistency in policies, and creates volatility in economic performance. Pakistan is witnessing a prolonged period of political instability (almost five years) and as such its adverse consequences for the economy are quite visible. Political instability is associated with greater uncertainty regarding future economic policy, it certainly affects investment adversely, slows economic growth, increases unemployment and poverty. Pakistan’s economy managed to grow by 2.4% during the fiscal year 2010-11. 1Ikramullah et. al, 2011 2Economic surveys of Pakistan 2005, 2011-12, 2013 3Pakistan Bureau of Statistics 4International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and Balance of Payments databases, World Bank, International Debt Statistics, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates. Index Copernicus Value: 3.0 - Articles can be sent to [email protected] Rationale Effects of Poverty in Pakistan 9 The recent example is Karachi where every day people died in target killing; the data available with the Citizen’s Police Liaison Committee reveals that a total of 2,507 people of the metropolitan city lost their lives in 2013. Out of these 2,507 people, 1,403 were killed during the first six months of the year 2013, while in 2014 1,726 people fell victim to target killings and sectarian violence in Karachi, during last six months of the current year, according to a report prepared by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). Target killing was one of the major causes of deaths followed by acts of terrorism, militants’ attacks and counter-terrorist operations by security agencies. When the political conditions are not stable people can’t work properly as a result nearly 73 million Pakistanis live below the poverty line as the poverty ratio increased to 40% during the last fiscal year 2010 while it stayed at 36.1% in 2009. The people living below the poverty line are more vulnerable to economic shocks than any other segment of society and may fall further in the abyss of abject poverty. Worse, food inflation, energy shortages etc are affecting the lives of the poor and fixed-income groups. “Economic slowdown, high inflation, volatile movement in some key commodity prices, high cost of war on terror and its severely negative consequences like considerable internal displacement, have acted as negative shocks for the economy”. – State Bank of Pakistan Infrastructure Infrastructure plays a vital role in the major development and a contributor to growth in Pakistan Affordable efficient and strong infrastructure is the key element of good investment climate and to sustain the growth momentum. High growth in is creating increasing pressure on existing infrastructure in Pakistan. In its study, ‘Greening growth in Pakistan through transport sector reforms,’ the World Bank has said “present patterns in transport and trade logistics generate inefficiencies that are costing Pakistan’s economy roughly 4-6 per cent of GDP per year,” — a major constraint. The crippling energy crisis is retarding growth by 3-4 per cent. The transport sector constitutes 10% of Pakistan’s gross domestic product and provides 6% of the employment in the country. It plays an important role as an enabler of other sectors in the economy via facilitating agglomerations, domestic and international trade, and spatial transformation the trucking sector carries 96 % of the total freight traffic and is characterized by small fleet owners with generally less than five vehicle. Meanwhile, over the last 20 years, revenues per kilometer have decreased in real terms by 1.4% on average every year. Many trucks operate long hours and carry excessive loads, while travelling at low speeds of 20-25 kilometers per hour (kph), compared with 80-90 kph in Europe. Road freight takes an average of 3-4 days between ports and the north of the country, which is twice what it takes to cover the same distance in some other Asian and European countries. Railways used to be the predominant mode of transportation in Pakistan, which, at its peak in the 1950s and 60s, handled 73 per cent of the freight traffic, compared to less than 4% by 2011. Total freight and passengers carried decreased from 5,709 to 3,925 million tons (31%) and from 84.9 to 58.9 million (31%) respectively. The World Bank argued that economic analysis using computable general equilibrium (CGE) model suggested a 10% increase in total factor productivity (TFP) in transport would increase income of all households. Rural agricultural laborers and the urban non-poor can realize the largest benefits of such an increase, with their incomes rising by 1.4 and 1.2% respectively. However, an increase in the TFP in rail and road reveals that non-farm households and the urban poor can potentially be made worse off. Overall, the CGE estimates that improvements in total factor productivity in transport could adversely Impact Factor(JCC): 1.3423 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us 10 Maham Tariq, Asma Idrees, Muzammil Abid & Tanzila Samin affect approximately 40,000 households in the rural non-farm non-poor sector, 12,500 households in the rural non-farm poor category, and 42,000 households in the urban poor category in Pakistan. Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) on Friday held a seminar to commemorate World Water Day 2013. Speaking at the seminar, experts revealed that despite having the largest irrigation system in the world, Pakistan had lost about two third of its water resources due to poor state of infrastructure and unpredictable climate changes. Ministry of National Food Security and Research Federal Secretary Ahmed Buksh said while addressing the seminar, “About two thirds of our water resources are lost in transmission and seepage”. He said that at least 68 million acre feet of water could be utilized be if the canal system was adequately repaired and maintained. Moreover, he stressed the need for addressing the issue of water resource management at local, national, regional as well as international levels. All these issues are mainly due to lack of money and poverty indirectly affects all these situations i.e. less roads and less people to have vehicles and less resources to solve water issues. SECTION II After a detail analysis of effects of poverty on different sector on Pakistan, this study will show the effects of indirect factors on direct factors. So that it can be seen that how poverty forces one sector to influence other and as a whole country faces crisis. Table 4: Effects Indirect on Direct Factors with Respect to Poverty Poverty Investment & Loan Political Stability When there is poverty less savings are done because Poverty effects at national level1 lack of money meeting real expenditure. Less savings means less means less productive work and lack of interest in Unemployment investment less development causing unemployment and government2 causing in political in stability with this moreover when loans are taken for fulfilling interest on investment level decline and less opportunities of loan no. of labor will be reduced causing unemployment jobs and eventually unemployment prevails Poverty brings Corruption, poor implementation of policies3and rising terrorist attacks causing political Most of the times when loans are to be paid and situation instability and circumstances are quite disappointing. Societal Crime is under poverty than there are large no. of chances to be Furthermore, lack of justice and influence of involved in crimes powerful on judiciary also encouraged crime in the country4. Table 5: Effect of Direct Factors on Direct Factors with Respect to Poverty Poverty Health Per Capita Income Poverty causes unemployment and unemployment is a Per capita income i.e. per person income is required to situation where there is no money and with this one will meet daily expenditures of a person when there will be Unemployment not be able to buy health facilities and many people unemployment due to poverty in the country then sleep without taking food of medicine due to poverty. income will be reduced and poor will suffer a lot. With education one gets awareness that how to live and Poverty cause decline in income and when person behave in the society but when poverty prevails, don’t have enough money to buy basic needs than how Education illiteracy level goes up and people lack awareness about he will be able to get educational facility. So decrease health. Biggest example is current situation in Pakistan in income cause illiteracy. about polio viral disease due to less awareness. CONCLUSIONS Though Pakistan is a tough country but every disease is infectious and Poverty is affecting Pakistan economically, socially and politically. There are other effects of poverty at a large level which are not mentioned due to shortage of time and resources, other than above mentioned effects. 1Nabila Asghar, et. al 2012. 2Asian Development Bank, 2002. 4Syed Yasir Mahmood Gillain et. al 2009. Index Copernicus Value: 3.0 - Articles can be sent to [email protected]