Spotlight on Pakistan - a telling article! (houses, calculated)

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I came across this piece by some professor. I thought it was fascinating, especially given all the media coverage.

http://www.atthegrapevine.com/wordpr...ht-on-pakistan

" The routine narrative of South Asia suggests that Pakistan is far behind its giant neighbour India on any measure of success and that the gap continues to widen. Sadly for those who have a vested interest in that line, research shatters their ignorance. I aim here to provide from perspective on the issue. Take poverty – the rates of which are classic, globally recognized measures of progress. A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative calculated that India’s rate of poverty at rates of $1.25/day and $2/day are 42 and 76 percent respectively. Contrasted to that, Pakistan’s rates of such levels of poverty, still painfully high, are as per the UN are 22.6 percent and 60.3 percent. Horrendously high, but reflective of far greater success in poverty alleviation then ‘shining’ India, which houses more absolute poor then all of sub-Saharan Africa and has poverty rates akin to those of Sierra Leone!"

Worth a full read!