Pakistan's Growing Human Capital

[Argus Panoptes]

@RiazHaq Sir jee, please buraa na manaana, but what does the above post have to do with "Pakistan's Growing Human Capital"? Wouldn't it be more appropriate if you kindly educated us about Pakistan rather than anyone else?

 

[RiazHaq]

@RiazHaq Sir jee, please buraa na manaana, but what does the above post have to do with "Pakistan's Growing Human Capital"? Wouldn't it be more appropriate if you kindly educated us about Pakistan rather than anyone else?

You are already educated about Pakistan. Now it's the Internet Hindus turn to learn about human capital and what it takes to be a human being capable of possessing human capital.

Inhumanity of well-documented child starvation, unfolding female genocide, widespread open defecation, increasing numbers of farmers' mass suicides all need to get serious attention and focus to restore human dignity before talking about human capital.

Haq's Musings: 63 Years After Independence, India Remains Home to World's Largest Population of Poor, Hungry and Illiterates

 

[Capt.Popeye]

@RiazHaq Sir jee, please buraa na manaana, but what does the above post have to do with "Pakistan's Growing Human Capital"? Wouldn't it be more appropriate if you kindly educated us about Pakistan rather than anyone else?

LOLLL; @Argus Panoptes you are trying to wake up a "Chronic Somnambulist"; who walks in his sleep, who talks in his sleep, who blogs in his sleep!
How many of Haq's posts were ON-TOPIC?
Of course; eventually and inevitably he had to get down to human feces, as he is prone to - so many times on this forum.

Of course you are entitled to wake Haq up from his "dream-land" and redirect him to the subject of the thread that he himself started viz. "Pakistan's Growing Human Capital". Just as others have tried.
But you are unlikely to have any success; Haq is too far gone now, even he will not be able to wake himself up!

 

[gslv mk3]

Here is a well known Internet Hindu, banned multiply times but always comes back for more.

pls take a look at your own brainfarts first

India has 20th century nuclear technology, technology that was used back in the 1940's-60's by some countries... Pakistan has a nuclear arsenal of the 21st century with more advance missile designs, higher accuracy, excellent miniaturization capability, faster deployment, superior nuclear command, and multiple means of delivery.

 

[Azazel]

You are already educated about Pakistan. Now it's the Internet Hindus turn to learn about human capital and what it takes to be a human being capable of possessing human capital.

Inhumanity of well-documented child starvation, unfolding female genocide, widespread open defecation, increasing numbers of farmers' mass suicides all need to get serious attention and focus to restore human dignity before talking about human capital.

Haq's Musings: 63 Years After Independence, India Remains Home to World's Largest Population of Poor, Hungry and Illiterates

LOL,Your lack of humility is very amusing.Since when did Pakistan became a land of milk and honey.We can go on and on about poor and desperate Pakistanis but its not gonna help anybody.Next time when you write a blog about Pakistan's so called "Growing Human Capital" try not to fudge the data and keep India out of it..Because you will be simply gutted here,Every body in this forum knows you are a fraud.Even the Pakistanis are making fun of you now..
We all know you are desperately trying increase the hits on your blog and hence trying to increase its revenue.But at least try to do that with some dignity.

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

Viewpoint: Pakistan's economic woes are being overlooked


Lol think about the percentage of Pakistani illiterates before commenting.

6.4% of 180,000,000 = 11, 520,000 (11.5 million people)

33.8% 1,200,000,000 = 405,600,000 (405.6 million people)


Have you not learnt how to read a pie chart?

 

[anonymus]

6.4% of 180,000,000 = 11, 520,000 (11.5 million people)

33.8% 1,200,000,000 = 405,600,000 (405.6 million people)


Have you not learnt how to read a pie chart?

Probably you should go back to school to brush up your mathematical skills.You may learn how to read pie chart after that.

All pie chart are drafted on same base value. The pie chart that you are taking about has total number of illiterates in the world as it's base value. The meaning of this pie chart is this that 6.4% of the total illiterates in the world are pakistani and 33.8% are Indian not that 6.4% of pakistanis are illiterate compared to 33.8% Indians.

The correct figure for literacy in India and Pakistan are 55% and 74% respectively.That is 45% of Pakistanis and 26% of Indians are illiterate.

Global literacy rate: Pakistan ranks 113th among 120 nations

Literacy Rate for India Population Census 2011




Now a brief tutorial as to " how to read pie charts for you".

The chart states 799 million as total number of illiterates which is it's base value.

India's share in it is 33.8% and pakistan's 6.4%

So total number of illiterates in

India = 799 X 0.338 = 270.062 million

and

Pakistan = 799 X 0.064 = 51.136 million

in absolute number.

But since pakistani population is less, it translates into much higher % by population.

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

Probably you should go back to school to brush up your mathematical skills.You may learn how to read pie chart after that.

All pie chart are drafted on same base value. The pie chart that you are taking about has total number of illiterates in the world as it's base value. The meaning of this pie chart is this that 6.4% of the total illiterates in the world are pakistani and 33.8% are Indian not that 6.4% of pakistanis are illiterate compared to 33.8% Indians.

The correct figure for literacy in India and Pakistan are 55% and 74% respectively.That is 45% of Pakistanis and 26% of Indians are illiterate.


The chart states 270 million as total number of illiterates which is it's base value.

India's share in it is 33.8% and pakistan's 6.4%

So total number of illiterates in

India = 270 X 0.338 = 91.26 million

and

Pakistan = 271 X 0.064 = 17.344 million

in absolute number.

But since pakistani population is less, it translates into much higher % by population.

Haha, I love it when you Stinkians take time out to respond to my posts. Know that every second spent entertaining my shenanigans is lost time which could have been better spent, addressing India's crippling cycle of poverty, bonded labor and illiteracy.

 

[anonymus]

Haha, I love it when you Stinkians take time out to respond to my posts. Know that every second spent entertaining my shenanigans is lost time which could have been better spent, addressing India's crippling cycle of poverty, bonded labor and illiteracy.

Whatever.

 

[soccerhero]

Haha, I love it when you Stinkians take time out to respond to my posts. Know that every second spent entertaining my shenanigans is lost time which could have been better spent, addressing India's crippling cycle of poverty, bonded labor and illiteracy.

Smart way of covering up some ignorance or foot in mouth moment???

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

Whatever.

That's right, haha, laugh it off because the next best thing to crying is laughing and covering your embarrassment. I'm glad you see the incontrovertible truth in my assertion, namely that you are wasting your time on PDF.

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

Smart way of covering up some ignorance or foot in mouth moment???

There's more magic where that came from. I tend to surprise and if you really must know, it was more apathy than ignorance. I simply did not bother reading the print around the pie chart. Hardly worth the effort.

 

[Dushmann]

Gentlemen let us stick to the topic.
Here's an article about Pakistan's growing human capital.

Surge in population growth alarming - thenews.com.pk


Muhammad Qasim
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
From Print Edition




Pakistan is one of the countries having highest population growth rate which is alarming and if population growth is not checked, the country will continue to fall short on the needs and basic amenities of life for the population. The unchecked population explosion is a major factor behind rise in disappointment, depression and tension among masses.



Pakistan has the highest population growth rate in the world at around 2.03% and each family here in the country has 3.4 children on average. Health experts believe that if the population of the country continues to grow with the same rate (2.03%), it is likely to double in the next 34 years, making Pakistan 4th most populous country of the world; whereas land area will remain the same rather will be reduced due to residential plans.



It should be a great concern for the politicians in power that the population of Pakistan was 33 million in 1950 and its rank was 14th in the world. Today, it has reached around 180.71 million making Pakistan the 6th most populous country of the world whereas in terms of land area, it is 34th, and shares only 0.6% of the world area.



Pakistan cannot tackle the issues of economic development and poverty reduction without putting a check on high population growth, said Head of Community Medicine at CMH Lahore Medical College Professor Dr Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry while talking to ‘The News’ in connection with World Population Day which is being observed today (on July 11) around the globe.



He believes that the rapid PGR in Pakistan is resulting in shortage of educational facilities, health services, food, living space, arable land, clean water, housing units, energy crisis, putting pressure on transportation, electricity, sewage, sanitation, and increase in unemployment, surge in food prices, land fragmentation, import of food, environmental degradation, overcrowding and congestion in households, squatter settlements, poverty, unrest, crimes, drug addiction as there are 9.6 million drug addicts in the country, urbanization being one of the highest in Asia, disease and suicide.



He said that fertility rate of Pakistan is highest and its Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (27%) is lowest even when compared to other Muslim countries like Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iran, and Malaysia. Each year four million souls are being added to the country’s population which means adding the population of Albania or New Zealand.



The higher population growth rate means more people to feed, more families to house, more children to educate, and more people looking for gainful employment. It is important that the world population has grown slowly for most of the human history. It took some 1,800 years for the population to hit one billion. However, in the past half-century, population jumped from three to seven billion.



Dr. Ashraf said that major factors responsible for high PGR in Pakistan are high fertility, declining mortality, early marriages, early puberty, son preference, high Infant Mortality (69 per 1,000 live births), poverty (children are considered to be social and economic security), illiteracy especially of women and lack of women empowerment, religious constraints, beliefs, customs and traditions.



To a query, he said that in spite of billions of funds allocated to Ministry of Population Welfare, our contraceptive prevalence rate is not increasing since the last one decade; rather it has decreased from 36% to 27% at present. Whereas, in order to achieve replacement level of fertility in the country of two children per family, contraceptive prevalence rate must reach up to 60%, so we have a long way to go.



He added that surprisingly, no politician hungry of political power has ever raised any concern about the population explosion and its consequences. “Our leaders, the government and the opposition, should take some time off from personal attacks on each other and devote some of their attention to this issue.”



He said that the declining mortality trends coupled with high fertility rates produce more dependent population. There is increase in poverty from 22.3% to 40% in 2010-11. At least 62 million people live below poverty line, 45 million face severe food security and 30% can’t afford any health care in Pakistan where literacy rate is also one of the lowest in the Asia, he said.



He added that Maternal Mortality Rate (276 per hundred thousand live births) and Infant Mortality Rate (69 per 1,000 live births) in Pakistan are still one of the highest in the world. This reality makes family planning in Pakistan one of the most urgent causes that need immediate support and attention. “It is recommended that status of women in the society should be increased by providing educational and employment opportunities.”



Dr Ashraf suggested that the government should control population through legislation, as in China, where there is one-child family system. Age of the marriage should be raised to 25 years in case of males and 23 in case of females. If the marriages are postponed from the age of 16 to 20 to 21, the number of births would decrease by 20-30 percent. Ulemas should be recruited as family planning mobilisers to remove misconception of the people about family planning.



He believes that in order to create awareness among masses about the benefits of small family and negative impact of early marriages, all channels of communication, including electronic and print media, outdoor publicity and interpersonal communication should be utilised.



He said that this year the theme of World Population Day is, “Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services.” Reproductive health is at the heart of development and crucial to delivering the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) vision — a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

 

[RiazHaq]

Gentlemen let us stick to the topic.
Here's an article about Pakistan's growing human capital.

It's no use quoting misguided writers who parrot nonsense about Pak population growth.

Larger population is in fact a blessing for Pakistan in terms of greater human capital and higher demographic dividend.

Pakistan has the world’s sixth largest population, seventh largest diaspora and the ninth largest labor force. With rapidly declining fertility and aging populations in the industrialized world, Pakistan's growing talent pool is likely to play a much bigger role to satisfy global demand for workers in the 21st century and contribute to the well-being of Pakistan as well as other parts of the world.

Haq's Musings: Pakistan's Expected Demographic Dividend

Dramatic declines in fertility are not necessarily good for society. In a book titled "The Empty Cradle", the author Philip Longman warns that the declining birth rates around the world will cause many social and economic problems. As a consequence of declining fertility, by 2050 the population of Europe will have fallen to what it was in 1950. Mr. Longman says this is happening all around the world: Women are having fewer children. It's happening in Brazil, it's happening in China, India and Japan. It's even happening in the Middle East. Wherever there is rapid urbanization, education for women and visions of urban affluence, birthrates are falling. Having and raising children is seen as an expense and a burden.

"So we have a "free rider" problem. You don't need to have children to provide for your old age -- but the pension systems need them." Says Longman, referring to the coming Social Security crunch as the number of retired people rises faster than the number of workers.

Haq's Musings: Do South Asian Slums Offer Hope?

 

[Trisonics]

It's no use quoting misguided writers who parrot nonsense....

Practice what you preach.