{"id":70845,"date":"2020-09-24T17:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70845"},"modified":"2020-09-24T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:24:45","slug":"body-formed-to-determine-provincial-national-poverty-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/body-formed-to-determine-provincial-national-poverty-levels.html","title":{"rendered":"Body formed to determine provincial, national poverty levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The government has constituted a high-powered committee under the Chairmanship of Dr Akmal Husssain and13 other members to provide poverty and inequality estimates at both the national and provincial levels, according to a news report published on September 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-launches-financial-inclusion-initiative-poverty-alleviation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PM launches \u2018Financial Inclusion\u2019 initiative for poverty alleviation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, this is the first time when such a high-powered committee is mandated to come with provincial and national poverty levels simultaneously. In past, the federal government never released the provincial estimates owing to the regional\/provincial sensitivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-bill-gates-sign-mou-alleviate-poverty-in-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PM, Bill Gates sign MoU to alleviate poverty in Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the available estimates from 2015-16, Pakistan\u2019s 24.3% population lives below the poverty line. The newly-formed committee will update the poverty line 2018-19 and estimate provincial and the national cost of basic needs (CBN) and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/icci-requests-wht-waiver-on-cement-steel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> poverty<\/a> and inequality numbers bases on the latest Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government has constituted a high-powered committee under the Chairmanship of Dr Akmal Husssain and13 other members to provide poverty and inequality estimates at both the national and provincial levels, according to a news report published on September 23. Read: PM launches \u2018Financial Inclusion\u2019 initiative for poverty alleviation Reportedly, this is the first time when such a high-powered committee is mandated to come with provincial and national poverty levels simultaneously. In past, the federal government never released the provincial estimates owing to the regional\/provincial sensitivities. Read: PM, Bill Gates sign MoU to alleviate poverty in Pakistan As per the available estimates from 2015-16, Pakistan\u2019s 24.3% population lives below the poverty line. The newly-formed committee will update the poverty line 2018-19 and estimate provincial and the national cost of basic needs (CBN) and poverty and inequality numbers bases on the latest Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[40231,40232,40233],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-body-formed-to-determine-provincial-national-poverty-levels","10":"tag-household-integrated-economic-survey-hies","11":"tag-national-poverty-levels","12":"cat-15016-id","13":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Body formed to determine national poverty levels- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reportedly, this is the first time when such a high-powered committee is mandated to come with provincial and national poverty levels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/body-formed-to-determine-provincial-national-poverty-levels.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Body formed to determine national poverty levels- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reportedly, this is the first time when such a high-powered committee is mandated to come with provincial and national poverty levels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/body-formed-to-determine-provincial-national-poverty-levels.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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