Role of Education to Mitigate the Poverty

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Project on Principles of Economics

Role of Education to mitigate the Poverty

Submitted to: -

Shahzad Iqbal

Group Members:-

Muhammad Abbas

(Reg # MBA-FA09-033)

FAISAL IQBAL

(Reg # MBA- FA09-038)

Sajid Gill

(Reg # MBA- FA09-037)

Umar Abid

(Reg # MBA- FA09-026)

Department of Management


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Table of contents

Introduction

Review of previous study

What is education and poverty

Poverty in Pakistan

Ten year poverty rate in Pakistan

Ten year literacy rate in Pakistan

Ten year GDP chart

Relationship between education and Poverty

Drawback of Poverty

How to control poverty through education

A good education nation (case study)

Related Case study

Conclusion and suggestion


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IntroductionRole of education in our life to mitigate the poverty is very important.

Education is the basic human right of every person. As we know that every aspect

of the life is directly linked with education. All success of a person, a company and

a country is depends upon the education system that provided by the public and

private sector. If the education system is well managed by the Government and run

by the able teachers there should be development in the single country as the

development increased opportunity for jobs and living standard should be

increased. As the living standard boost up by the education, the peoples who are

living in or below the poverty should be well educated. They should be able to run

their job and house that is the big hurdle for the better development of an economy.

An healthy education system produce the healthy minds and skills, when

we used it, we introduce the new technology that boost up our production and

when production increased our GDP increased that also increased the sales which

gives us the huge profit and we hire more and more employees to increase our

output level also with higher efficiency and effectiveness, then we do not

compromise our quality because of heavy profit chain. Hence we can be able to

increase our per capita income after the higher level of national income.


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Review of previous study

Linkage between education and poverty can be understood in two ways.

Investment in education as a poverty reduction strategy which can enhancethe skills and productivity among poor household.

Poverty as constraint to educational achievement both at the macro level and

micro level.

Some countries that have high GNP have greater education equality for

males and females but in under develop countries this trend is change they

education to male rather than the female. Some constraints to give education to

girls explain the persistence of gender gap and how gender reduce the educational

opportunity for girls the opportunity cost of girls schooling is less than the maleeducation but our social aspect and marriage of women and after that they remain

in the house not think important to give education to females.

Education, especially basic (primary and lowery secondary) education, helps

to reduce the poverty by increasing the productivity of poor, by reducing the

richness and improving the health, and by equipping people with the skills they

need to participate fully in economy and society (World Bank 1995:1).

The World Bank assert that public spending on private education generallyin the favor of the poor , but public spending on education policy as a whole often

in the favor the rich because of heavy subsidization of the upper secondary and

high level of education . It is pointed out that higher education student come

illegally from rich families and there for public sector spending for higher

education is particularly unjust (World Bank 1995).

The impact of user fees in Malawi

In Malawi when primary school fees were introduced in 1982 enrolments declinedinitially and than grew at much slower rate than previously. When, in1994, the new

democratic government of Malawi removed fees for primary schooling there are

immediately a huge increase in enrolment with numbers in primary school

increasing from 1.9 million to 3 million during the years. Fees are significant


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expense for family budgets, and reduction can have a big impact on enrolments,

particularly among poorer households. Source: colclough 1996

What is education and poverty?

After the independence the planner of our country were mainly concerned

with economic growth. Each activity of the economy was linked with the economy

growth. Now for this purpose we mostly concerned with establishing a relationship

between education and economic growth. Human capital directly linked with

poverty. Human capital is the stock of skills and productive knowledge that can be

used to enhance economic growth. Because education increases an individuals

skills and his earning power. Thus education plays a positive role to mitigate the

poverty.

What is education?

According to our Holey prophet peace be upon him, which tells us as

TO LEARN EDUCATION FROM CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. They also

made education a religious obligation. Our Holey Prophet (PBUH) knows that the

education is very compulsory to mitigate the poverty. The first revelation on our

Holey Prophet (PBUH) is that READ IN THE NAME OF ALLAH which takes

a big secret of success for us.

We can see in our environment like many products and services remains

less preferable until an educated person not convert it in the final goods and

services.

A single person will not make better decision but they will do that moreproperly with the help of education and knowledge. A good education helps one to

determine between what is right and what is wrong. Thats why a single person

takes a very heavy salary rather than the other persons in the same institute or

organization.


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What is poverty?

Widespread literature on the issue has provided various explanations of

poverty.

1-Lack of resources to obtain the minimum necessities of life (Kakwani, 2001)

2-A person is poor if his/her welfare or utility level falls below a certain level (Barr,

1993; Goedhart, T., Halberstadt, V., and van Praag, 1977);

Poverty in Pakistan

Pakistan is facing a big problem like poverty. It is one of the most

important and sensitive issue not only for our country but for the whole world.Poverty can cause other social problems like theft, backhander, corruption,

falseness, lawlessness, injustice. To eliminate the evils of society we have to fight

with poverty. We can't control theft by enrolling thousands of police men.

Corruption and injustice can not come to an end through tight rules and regulation

but by demolishing poverty.

A low level of domestic income for an individual person results in lack

of access to education, health care, and other public facilities like lake of

sanitation, transportation and communication. The poverty of thought is the major

social problem. To eliminate poverty in Pakistan we have to fight with the causes

and factors of poverty. Unless the causes and factors of poverty will be settled the

poverty will never end.

Lack of knowledge is one of the important aspects of poverty. Ignorance

is lake of information or lake awareness. In this modern age of scientific revolution

we are far behind in the education and most importantly scientific education. Our

literacy rate is less than fifty percent the female education rate is even in miserable

state. The right kind of education to the individuals is the solution of poverty. The

right kind of education to the farmer is the knowledge of scientific ways of

agriculture. A progressive and professional thinking is required in the farmers life.

Poverty can not come to an end unless we will spend much larger part of

our GDP to the education sector. We have to open more primary and secondary


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schools especially in our villages rather than the cities. As we know that poverty

rate in our rural area is greater than the urban. Hence we will be able to mitigate

the poverty.

Trends in Poverty indicatorsYears Urban Rural Pakistan

1998-99 20.9 37.7 30.6

2000-01 22.7 39.3 34.5

2004-05 14.9 28.1 23.9

2005-06 13.1 27.0 22.3

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009 23.92009-2010 32.4

2010 37.5

Ten years Literacy Rates

Pakistan 2004-05 2005-06 2006-7 2007-08 2008-09

Male 67 69 69 65 65

Female 42 44 45 40 42

Both 55 56 57 53 54

Rural 45 49 48 44 44

Urban 75 71 74 71 71

GPI 0.63 0.64 0.65 0.62 0.65

After going through these three tables we saw that literacy rate are

increasing and poverty rates are decreasing up to 2006 but after that due to

increasing in poverty rate there is decreasing trend in GDP rates.

On the other side literacy rates of our country are increasing gradually. But

this is not enough, if we want to decrease our poverty rate then our


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government should invest into the primary sector. Especially in to the rural

areas where poverty rate is much higher as compare to the urban areas.

Hence, we can be able to mitigate the poverty by increasing the enrollment in

to the primary education of our country


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Real GDP in Pakistan:-

Year GDP - real growth rate Rank Percent Change Date of Information

2003 4.50 % 48 FY01/02 est.

2004 5.50 % 45 22.22 % 2003 est.

2005 6.10 % 47 10.91 % 2004 est.

2006 6.60 % 48 8.20 % 2005 est.

2007 6.60 % 59 0.00 % 2006 est.

2008 5.30 % 104 -19.70 % 2007 est.

2009 2.70 % 139 -49.06 % 2008 est.

2010 2.70 % 67 0.00 % 2009 est


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Drawback of Poverty

As you earlier understand about poverty rout causes. Now in this portion

we are trying to understand the draw backs of poverty. The wide spread poverty is

attributed to the economic declining and the financial crisis that the county has

been facing for the last many years. Extremely tough IMG\WB prescribed

structural adjustment and economic revival programs have thrown the nation into

the poverty sticky situation. Then ever increasing prices of daily commodities high

inflation rate and devaluation of the currency are making it harder and harder for a

poor common man to keep his body and soul together. Inflating bills of electricity

gas and telephone are worrying the people further. Again socio-economic

inequalities let the benefits instead of trickling up to the rich.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

(Thomas Fuller)

In general sense if we look around poverty force people to act like that to

capture some thing which provide him the basic needs bread, house & clothes in

this way people starts illegal jobs so now the bagging and other activities like theft.

Poverty has strained the social fabric of the society .Standard of living of the

people is falling down rapidly. Being unable to lift the heavy burden of life on their

financially weak shoulders more and more people are committing suicide. Poverty

is also taking the heavy toll of their health and morality. More and more poverty

stricken people indulging in crimes and social evils. Besides poverty has deprived

the people of mental peace as well as of comforts of life.

In our country mostly people are spending their life hand to mouth even

they are not meeting their basic needs which is food, cloth & house so Government

should take steps urgently from my observation education is the main weapon

through the use of this our nation can boosts up and then become a successful

nation of the world .


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How to Control poverty through education

As I earlier mentioned the education is the main weapon by the use of

this we can achieve all the goals and targets to the way of prosperity. In education

we should put main focus on womens education. Education of girls and women

helps to reduce excessive population growth by promoting the concept of family

planning, collective heath and well being .As the educated family has the few

children full confidence productivity and experience a longer and healthier life

should be able to reduce the poverty.

Educated women have the fewer children than uneducated women and

those children who are born to an educated mother have a much better chance of

serving and being healthy. An educated woven also tend to participate more

activity in political processes and decision making with their family and

community.

This part has argued that we need to use a broader and more difficult

understanding of poverty to understand barriers to education. Its not possible to

understand poverty only in an complete fashion. Complete poverty may delay

entry into school, and protract the journey through school and in a few cases the

daily burden of absolute poverty may see children leaving school altogether, but

the simple equation between poverty and lack of access to school is not borne out

in the Pakistan case. High Gross Enrolment Rates in the basic education indicatesthat most learners go to school.

The solution lies in recognizing the relative experience of poverty and

the process by which children and parents become excluded from school itself

and from participation in SGBs. If poverty is felt in a relative way then a simple

concentration on fees and other access costs will not have a major impact on

getting all children in school. Rather than this narrow focus, resources should be

placed or redirected into providing better support mechanisms in schooling for

principals, teachers and learners: counselors and social workers for example.

Significantly, the funding system would have to be reassessed to the extent that it

provides incentives for principles and SGBs to exclude children on the basis of

poverty or non-payment of fees.


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A GOOD EDUCATION NATION

As we knows that when American attacks the Japans city Hiroshima and

Nagasaki, the resources for living and going toward the development all of that

destroyed by bomb attack. But they control their nation and poverty by the better

education system day by day and proved that we can capture all over the world

through education.

After Development Hiroshima in 2008


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Related case study

The case study which I am going to share with you is all about my

personnel feeling, observation and study. I personally met with people and collectall the information which related with my topic how a peoples over come their

crisis and boosts up the family and financial condition.

In Toba Tec Sing in District Head Quarter Dr. Abdul Aziz surgeon

doing his job and his other brother are teaching in government sectors and also

help him with private clinic his sisters are also playing the role in the productivity

of their lives. When Dr. and his sibling are at the age of less than ten his parents

are very poor even that they are not meeting their basic needs they are working

under the rich persons home.

His parents works day and night for his childrens education they faced

a lot of tough time they collect high amount of debt for the betterment of their

children. Under these circumstances his children give him reward in the shape of

they gained education after that they gain the specialization degrees.

Now Dr. Abdul Aziz and his family are enjoying happy monuments of

their lives this is all about the education. Education is only way to over come the

poverty.


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CONCLUSION & SUGGESTIONS

We find that the people of Pakistan have the biggest challenge of being poor as

compared to the china. So we should control our population growth.

We find that the people of Punjab have the biggest challenge of being poor as

compared to the other province. Due to the population growth.

We find that if education level of the head of the household increases the

chance of that household being remains poor decreases.

We find that when transfer of payment increases the chances of a household

being poor declines thus our saving power increase that is most important to

decline poverty rate.

We find that if chances of a household being poor decrease with the education

then the number of earner in that household increases.

We find that as size of the household increases the poverty there should be

increases.

We find by giving education and employment to the individual we can reduce

the poverty.

We find that our country is an agricultural land so if we provide to our formers

a technical education, how to prepare the land, quantity of fertilizers to the

specific land and at the end giving small loans without interest thus we can

reduce the poverty.

We should give education by enhancing the skills of the individual, that

increases the earning capacity of a person and also enhance the possibility of

getting job. In this way we can reduce the poverty.


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