About 114th of the population, or nearly 30 million people, live below the poverty line in Pakistan … the pattern of income distribution has worsened over time…. In these 2() years, the share in national income of the lowest 20% of the population has declined from 8.4% to 5.7%. On the other hand, the share of the highest 20% of the population has gone up from 41.5% to 49.3% over the same period. Those in government refer to two achievements.
