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Govt expects reduction in poverty in new survey
Nation to know total number of poor by end of March
ISLAMABAD:
The government is all set to make public the latest poverty figures in the country next month, expecting that poverty would decline despite low economic growth and high inflation.
Zafarul Hasan Almas, a senior official at the Planning Commission, expressed the hope that the poverty levels would come down to 22% in 2018-19 – the first year of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government – from 24.5% in 2015-16.
“Our target is to release poverty numbers by March and the numbers would be published in the economic survey of Pakistan,” Almas said, speaking in the Express News talk show, The Review, referring to the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)’s recent survey.