Alleviating Poverty in Pakistan

This is the second assignment of second class of English Language Course and i think first time i am writing something out of course and none technical so you can expect its quality. :)

Poverty is one of the major problems of Pakistan. Around 70% of population is earning less then $2 a day. It requires considerable attention by government and private sector to alleviate poverty in Pakistan by improving education, health services and reducing unemployment.

Improving education is one of the major steps that can be taken to reduce poverty. Most of the people in Pakistan are finding it very difficult to fulfill their basic needs of food, cloth, shelter and health. They can’t think of educating their children. They find it a wise decision to send their children to some house or shop for labors work to earn some hundreds of rupees rather than sending to school where they have to spend hundreds of rupees. Government should facilitate people to get quality education easily and cheaply so that people can improve their financial position. There is also need to establish technical institutes where people can develop different skills and earn reasonable money.

Development in industrial sector plays a direct roll in reducing unemployment and hence alleviating poverty. Government should facilitate foreign as well as local investor to invest in different industries in Pakistan. This goal can be achieved by ensuring peaceful and stable environment and availability of sufficient resources like electricity, water and transportation.

Health conditions are very poor in Pakistan especially for poor people in rural areas where people don’t have easy access to hospitals and doctors. There is only one doctor for every 1300 persons and only one bed in hospital for every 1100 persons in Pakistan. There is strong need to pay attention in health services and increase health budget to improve hospitals and availability of medicines. Improvements in health services results improved productivity and economic growth and reduce in poverty.

Pakistan has a lot of resources and only there is need to utilize them in right direction with proper planning to alleviate poverty.