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Pakistan among top 10 in Human Development improvement

The other nine “Top Movers” are China, Nepal, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia,Laos, Tunisia, South Korea, Algeria and Morocco.

February 23, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been put on 10th position in term of Human Development improvement in the United Nation Development Programme’s 20th Human Development Report 2010 on Wednesday.

Those countries among the 135 countries that improved most in Human Development Index (HDI) terms over the past 30 years were led by Oman, which invested energy earnings over the decades in education and public health.

The other nine “Top Movers” are China, Nepal, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia,Laos, Tunisia, South Korea, Algeria and Morocco. Remarkably, China was the only country that made the “Top 10” list due solely to income performance; the main drivers of HDI achievement were in health and education.

The UNDP report said that in Pakistan, between 1980 and 2010, the HDI value increased by 58 per cent (average annual increase of about 1.5 per cent).

“With such an increase Pakistan is ranked 10 in terms of HDI improvement, which measures progress in comparison to the average progress of countries with a similar initial HDI level”, it added.

Pakistan’s life expectancy at birth increased by more than 9 years, mean years of schooling increased by about 3 years and expected years of schooling increased by almost 4 years.

Pakistan’s Gross National Income (GNI) per capita increased by 92 per cent during the same period. The relative to other countries in the region, in 1980, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh had close HDI values for countries in South Asia.

However, during the period between 1980 and 2010 the three countries experienced different degrees of progress toward increasing their HDIs states the Report.

The Report introduces the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which identifies multiple deprivations in the same households in education, health and standard of living.

The average percentage of deprivation experienced by people in multidimensional poverty is 54 per cent.

The MPI, which is the share of the population that is multi-dimensionally poor, adjusted by the intensity of the deprivations, is 0.275.Pakistan’s “HDI neighbors”, India and Bangladesh, have MPIs of 0.296 and 0.291, respectively.

COMMENTS (4)

J | 13 years ago | Reply @x the same line the other nine countries.....is written in the editorial published plz chk tht aswell , i was not undrstanding is the country they are referin is Pakistan or some other but your comment made it clear.. these type of things should nt be dne in paper like Tribune.

Noor Majeed | 13 years ago | Reply I would just like to point out that the information given in this article is incorrect. Pakistan is NOT among the top 10 movers. In fact, it ranks 25th on the list. I would suggest the team of Express Tribune be more vigilant about the quality of articles they publish.

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x | 13 years ago | Reply Readers beware, the information in this article is false and misleading. It is interesting to note that Pakistan with a growth rate of 1.52% for the period 1980-2010 makes the top 10 movers HDR but countries with higher growth rates such as Bangladesh (1.99%), India (1.61%), Mali (2.1%), Benin (1.67) and Egypt (also 1.52%) do not. The reason for this is that none of these countries make the top 10 list. Pakistan is actually number 25, which in itself is an achievement and does not need to be skewed. Parts of this article are directly copied from the UNDP's HDR website itself. For example, the line about the other nine countries is a reference to Oman, which topped the list and not Pakistan. It is pathetic to see such journalism/plagiarism here. A retraction is necessary.

ba ha | 13 years ago | Reply Hunnn??? i must have missed it... did u say thirty or 3 years??

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