Abstract
This study dig out to answer two different but correlated question ; firstly, what is the role of Social Safety Net (SSN) measures in targeting the poverty for a developing country like Pakistan. Secondly, can the provision of social safety nets help in Sustainable Economic Development (SED)? The study surrounds to answer these questions in context of Pakistan’s economy. Pakistan being a developing country focuses on both, social safety nets and social safety protection measures. The social protection programs of the country are highly skewed and mainly restricted to formal sectors. This phenomenon restricts the access of deserved people in the informal sectors and clearly indicates an exclusion bias of the right people from the social security and protection programs. To answer the first question, the poor of the country have been divided on the basis of national poverty line as; extremely poor, ultra poor, the poor, vulnerable to poverty, quasi poor and non poor. The required informal social safety net measures as an appropriate solution are then identified against each category. The second question has addressed in the other way around. The absence or lacking of adequate social safety net measures mean the prevalence of extreme poverty and lacking of opportunities therefore, the relationship between SSNs and SED will lead us to the ultimate socio-economic evils such as poverty, income inequality, class-conflict, corruption, self-indulgence, hedonism and the provision of adequate SSNs would then mean the absence or lacking of these evils which can subsequently contribute to SED. Finally, we can conclude that provision of adequate measures of SSNs and SSPs on the basis of equity and passions will significantly contribute in the process SED of the country
Zahoor Khan, , Jamalludin Sulaiman, Mohamed Ibrahim, Waqar Hussain Shah. (2013) Social Safety Nets and Sustainable Economic Development: A Theoretical Perspective with Reference to Pakistan Economy, The Dialogue, Volume 8, Issue 2.
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