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The middle class is a lifestyle

If you see the broadcast of a private television channel or a few days before the presentation of a budget in a major city in Pakistan or read newspapers, the word you can hear thousands of times and to understand That would be 'ordinary man,' i.e., those who belong to a middle class.




TV host conversations and writings often rotate around the 'ordinary man' where they are crying for increasing poverty and inflation in the country, and they are trying to criticize them in some way. By the authorities the extent to reaching the area that due to government policies, living of middle class or white homemakers has become wasted and how an ordinary man is now able to afford his family to the needs and needs of his family at a low salary. Can do.


But if the report issued recently by the State Bank of India and the World Bank last year, the report released about Pakistan's economic situation in November, the case seems entirely different.


The report issued by State Bank's "Economic Status of India" states that last year's data shows that consumers in the country only buy vehicles and electric appliances and banks The trend of small loans is increased.


On the other hand, the World Bank report states that poverty in Pakistan has come to a 'decent' decline. According to this report, in 64, the population of 64 percent was living below poverty, but after 15 years, their number was reduced by only 29 percent.


Economics and researchers say that in any country the middle class is an easy way to measure that one who can spend money on eating food in his income and spend money for acquiring better lifestyle, medium Belong to the class.


According To State Bank Report


In the State Bank report, it is proven with the help of data, which has been reported to see 11% increase in sales of vehicles in the country. Similarly, a large number of the middle class uses a motorcycle to gain mobility, and according to the report, their sales also increased by 21 percent. The sale of electrical goods has also increased by 14 percent in which Deposit freezers were remarkable, whose sales increased by 54 percent.


Federal Minister for Commerce Khurram Duggar said, "To understand all of us in Pakistan it is a critical thing that the middle class has increased and due to this, buy the power of people Increased and the number of local brands has increased.


Research conducted by various experts and research shows that at the beginning of the century, when Pakistan's population was around 14 million, then 29 percent of the country's population belonged to a middle class, but now in the year 2016 According to estimates, the people of Pakistan has now increased to 20 million, and 38% of its population belongs to the middle class.


But here, the question is how the growth in the middle class is possible and whether this increase and poverty reduction reflects the country's better economic conditions or not?


A comprehensive researcher on the joint director of the Institute of Development and Development of the Pakistan Institute of Economics, Dr. Rare says that there is no recent process in the middle class, but this series has been continuing for almost two decades.


'I am confident that the middle class in Pakistan will continue to grow. The increase in this segment was also happening when the rate of inflation and growth rate decreased in the country.


Doctors Point Of Views

According to the doctor's rare, this increase is linked to people's changing lifestyles over government policies.


Explaining the middle class, Dr. Rare said that the middle class is literally about a lifestyle and desire to move. "Once a person gets a part of the middle class, and he gets used to this lifestyle, he wants to continue it."


Economist Akbar Zaidi, on his other hand, wrote in his recent article that poverty reduction in Pakistan is a positive change but to conclude that all is well, it will not be right.


According to them, it is relatively easy to reduce poverty, but the real challenge for government is to reduce inequality, which is an arduous and complicated process. Akbar Zaidi wrote more about the difference that the richness of wealth and the poverty of the poor is increasing, but those who belong to the lower class are not considered inferior.


The World Bank research indicates that. According to his report, despite the apparent lack of poverty in the country, there has not been an extraordinary change in public welfare. According to the World Bank, since 2010, there has been no increase in rate literacy in the country, and the proportion of students passing matriculation has not increased.


Economist Asad Saeed focused on the increase in the increase in salaries has improved significantly, but this change does not remove the weakness of infrastructure. 'Perhaps the government's purpose is to send people to shopping malls and to buy only the last items.'


Dr. Dhanabhab has said that the rise in the middle class was welcomed, but he also emphasized that the Government is inevitable to take steps to reduce the equality of non-equality and the most crucial step in the state of school Zero is to improve.


'The focus of the government is only for higher education and degrees, but those schools can be from middle class, the educational standards there are so weak that people avoid sending their children there. Easy to grow The method is a good education and the purpose of the middle class is to move forward.

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