tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278279504304651957.post3228886152555795648..comments2024-03-26T19:25:43.970-07:00Comments on South Asia Investor Review: Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index Ranks India 2nd Worst in South Asia After AfghanistanRiaz Haqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278279504304651957.post-50265736088636019622022-10-17T11:03:44.973-07:002022-10-17T11:03:44.973-07:00The headline multidimensional poverty (MPI) figure...The headline multidimensional poverty (MPI) figures for Pakistan (0.198) are worse than for Bangladesh (0.104) and India (0.069). This is primarily due to the education deficit in Pakistan. UNDP's report titled "Unpacking Deprivation Bundle" shows that an average Pakistani still enjoys a better "standard of living" than his/her counterparts in Bangladesh and India. Below is an excerpt from it:<br /><br />"The analysis first looks at the most common deprivation profiles across 111 developing countries (figure 1). The most common profile, affecting 3.9 percent of poor people, includes deprivations in exactly four indicators: nutrition, cooking fuel, sanitation and housing.7 More than 45.5 million poor people are deprived in only these four indicators.8 Of those people, 34.4 million live in India, 2.1 million in Bangladesh and 1.9 million in Pakistan—making this a predominantly South Asian profile "<br /><br />https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/hdp-document/2022mpireportenpdf.pdf<br /><br /><br />Also note in this UNDP report that the income poverty (people living on $1.90 or less per day) in Pakistan is 3.6% while it is 22.5% in India and 14.3% in Bangladesh.<br /><br />Living standards (Cooking fuel Sanitation Drinking water Electricity Housing Assets) of the poor in Pakistan (31.1%) are better than in Bangladesh (45.1%) and India (38.5%).<br /><br />Pakistan fares worse in terms of education (41.3%) indicators relative to Bangladesh (37.6%) and India (28.2%).<br /><br />In terms of health, Pakistan ( 27.6%) fares better than India (32.2%) but worse than Bangladesh (17.3%).<br /><br />In terms of population vulnerable to poverty, Pakistan (12.9%) does better than Bangladesh (18.2%) and India (18.7%)<br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278279504304651957.post-25510417799153498032017-08-21T07:52:27.884-07:002017-08-21T07:52:27.884-07:00Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017
http:/...Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017<br /><br />http://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/B47_Global_MPI_2017.pdf<br /><br />The 2017 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) provides a headline estimation of poverty and its composition for 103 countries<br />across the world. The global MPI measures the nature and intensity of poverty, based on the profile of overlapping deprivations each poor<br />person experiences. It aggregates these into meaningful indexes that can be used to inform targeting and resource allocation and to design<br />policies that tackle the interlinked dimensions of poverty together.<br />Sabina Alkire and Gisela Robles<br /><br /><br />• Half of the MPI poor people live in destitution.<br />• In six countries and 117 subnational regions, 50% or<br />more of people are destitute.<br />• Most of the highest levels of destitution are found in SubSaharan<br />Africa.<br />• Pakistan has more destitute people – 37 million – than<br />East Asia and the Pacific (26 million) or the Arab States<br />(26 million).<br />• India has more destitute people (295 million) than SubSaharan<br />Africa (282 million).<br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278279504304651957.post-78831095317056282642014-11-07T07:23:04.406-08:002014-11-07T07:23:04.406-08:00Over 3000 unclaimed, unknown dead bodies every yea...Over 3000 unclaimed, unknown dead bodies every year found in #NewDelhi #India http://nyti.ms/1y9Bpbj <br /><br />NEW DELHI — The most lost of the lost people of Delhi end up here, in a cold metal-sided room at the Sabzi Mandi mortuary. They are lying on every available surface, including the blood-smeared floor, some with body parts flung out in the position of their death, protruding from the white plastic bags that are used to store them.<br /><br />The smooth, sharp curve of a man’s naked hip, all bone and no flesh. A jaw, with teeth. Hands folded over an abdomen as if at rest, or extended in some last intercepted expression of feeling.<br /><br />In a corner, the bodies are crowded together on the floor. The mortuary attendants say it is so difficult to procure supplies as basic as disinfectant from the government that workers bring soap from home so that they can wash their hands after handling the bodies, many of which are infected with tuberculosis. So it would be unrealistic for the unidentified dead to expect a metal shelf of their own.<br /><br />“You’ll find them one on top of the other,” said the mortuary’s chief doctor, L. C. Gupta. “Where are we supposed to put them?”<br /><br />On average, the police in this city register the discovery of more than 3,000 unidentifiable bodies a year — unidentifiable not because they are unrecognizable, but because they carry no documents and there is no one who knows them.<br /><br />It is an extraordinary number. New York City buries as many as 1,500 homeless or poor people in trenches in its potter’s field on Hart Island every year, but of those, according to an official from the medical examiner’s office who recently spoke to the NY1 news channel, the number who remain unidentified averages around 50.<br /><br />In Delhi, one regularly encounters the unknown dead: By law, photographs of their corpses must be published in newspapers and posted in police stations, under the Dickensian heading “Hue and Cry Notice.” Protocol requires the mortuary to hold each body for 72 hours so that relatives have a chance to spot the announcements and claim the dead, but Dr. Gupta said they rarely do.<br /><br />“Nobody reads them,” he said. Police officers are also expected to investigate. Asked about this, Dr. Gupta gave a small, dry smile. “They may or may not try,” he said.<br />-------------<br /><br />This is no city for the poor. Drive around New Delhi at night, and great numbers of men, women and children can be seen curled up on the sidewalks sleeping, or trying to sleep. These people — “pavement dwellers,” they are called — figure in occasional newspaper articles about drunken drivers whose vehicles jump the curb and plow into a row of sleepers....<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/asia/the-dead-of-delhi-unknown-and-unclaimed.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0<br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.com