Reflecting the Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty in Shanties Community of Pakistan

An Evidence of Last Decade

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ID6445814
AuthorsHuda Safdar (Government Sadiq College Women University), Muhammad Waqas Khalid (0000-0002-1411-870X, University of Catania)
Year2025
Volume17
Issue4
Publication date2025-11-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoverty & Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1944-2858 • E-ISSN: 2194-6027
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/pop4.70045
OpenAlexW4416826921
LanguageEN
References cited63

Although exploring poverty dynamics has been crucial for policymakers and thinkers across the developing nations, no study has addressed poverty in a multidimensional context for Pakistan's shanty community, despite its significance. This study fills this critical gap by examining long‐ and short‐run multidimensional poverty (MDP) dynamics of urban and rural shanties communities across Pakistan by using the Alkire and Foster (2011) indexing methodology and Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement nationwide cross‐sectional survey data from 2010–2011 to 2019–2020. The temporal measurements depict the poverty dilemma mainly attributed to the rural phenomenon across the shanty's community. Nevertheless, provincial comparison analytical highlights reflect that during the given timespan, shanties residing in Punjab (Baluchistan) were mildly (severely) victims of MDP. However, with a decade‐long time gap, 2010–2011 to 2019–2020, the trend of shanties community MDP has substantially diminished countrywide, at the provincial level, and across the regions, which has been strongly validated by the dimensional decomposition robust measures. Thus, policy derivation to reduce shanties MDP and materialize the sustainable development goal targets is required to uplift their living standard through employment in different sectors and socially lessen their deprivation in key factors, education, and health through different corrective measures

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