Muhammad Azeem Ashraf

Hunan University

Dr. Muhammad Azeem Ashraf is an associate professor at the Institute of Education, Hunan University, China. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in clinical medicine from Shihezi University, China, in 2008 and a doctoral degree in educational leadership and policy (comparative education) from Beijing Normal University, China, in 2018. He has served as visiting faculty at Henan Institute of Science and Technology, China, from 2016 to 2019 and a lecturer at Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, China, from 2008 to 2011. He is the English editor of University Education Science. Dr. Ashraf has been a principal investigator of several projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology, China. He has published more than forty papers in international peer-reviewed journals and books.

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Poverty and Its Alleviation: The Case of Pakistan

By Muhammad Azeem Ashraf

This chapter aims to look at the current status of poverty and existing social policies in Pakistan. Poverty is one of the concerns for the governments of almost all countries including Pakistan. There is a continuous research on the policy measurements by national and international organizations in Pakistan, which demonstrated the decline in poverty. The government has launched many social policies in the past three decades to help the nation in reducing the poverty. Apart from government, many national and international organizations have also contributed a lot in the effort of reducing the poverty. However, there is very little research available on the effectiveness of these social policies, and on the need of social policy areas in particular. Disparity among the urban and rural population is another important factor, which has been discussed in almost every research on poverty. Still, very few social policies in Pakistan are focusing on rural population. Therefore, the issue of social policy needs fresh exploration in the country, which is necessary to make new social policies that can benefit all citizens.

Part of the book: Poverty, Inequality and Policy

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