scholarly journals Benazir Income Support Programme (Bisp): Its Benefits and Implications

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-208
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali Pasha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Positive Aspect ◽  
Developing Nation ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Household Livelihood ◽  
National Perspective

Poverty is defined as a state as a result of economic, social and demographic factors when meeting a certain criterion. For reduction of poverty, a social protection programme is created and initiated that refers to a mechanism by mean of which certain policies and strategies are put into action to provide facilities to the underprivileged section of the country in order to enhance their standard of living and household livelihood and consumption. This research paper is focused on the benefits and implications of BISP in the country of Pakistan which is a developing nation and has been facing the challenge of poverty. Firstly an overview on the term of poverty is done followed by overview on social protection programme from a global and national perspective. Then overview of BISP and its goals and process is done. Then the study looks into the positive aspect on the implementation of the scheme and what its shortcomings are that has affect its success. Many challenges and incompetency have been discussed while providing ideas for resolution as well.

Politics of Development in Pakistan: From the Post-Independence Modernization Project to ‘Vision 2025’

2021 ◽  
pp. 097317412110340
Author(s):  
Aliya Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Development Trajectory ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Liberal Capitalism

This article critically analyses Pakistan’s development project since its independence in 1947 up till Vision 2025 of 2014. Vision 2025 aspires to ‘inclusive growth’ through the expansion of the market as the basis for a ‘people-centric’ approach to development. Based on a critical evaluation of Pakistan’s development trajectory, I argue that a reliance on economic growth via liberal capitalism to address poverty has failed in Pakistan. Post-independence aspirations of decent livelihoods became disrupted by the development project, which evolved through Cold War politics. Premised upon the privileging of liberal capitalism, this modernization project was executed by authoritarian regimes that initiated new processes of dispossession and accentuated existent inequalities. Moreover, a critical analysis of Pakistan’s development crises must consider how poverty intersects with social inequality justified through zat or caste to reproduce entrenched positions of privilege and disadvantage. Mainstream Pakistani society comprises an efficacious trope of inequality normalized through the ‘othering’ of poor families, resistance to which is misrepresented as a lack of character and industry. Impoverished communities bear disproportionate costs of development, which compel them to find shelter in segregated communities in slums and earn a living as servants, vendors and through begging, including children on the streets. In the wake of neo-liberal policy reforms, the Benazir Income Support Programme provides temporary monetary relief to some but leaves intact the underlying causes of worsening inequality. A critical discussion of Pakistan’s development trajectory challenges the ideological premises of Vision 2025 and its promise of universal wellbeing.

scholarly journals Two Social Protection Programs in Pakistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Edition) ◽  
pp. 283-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ijaz Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Income Support ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Large Pool ◽  
The Government ◽  
Overall Effectiveness ◽  
Cash Grant

Pakistan has launched two far reaching social protection programs. The federal government’s Benazir Income Support Program has, at its core, an unconditional cash grant for the poorest households. Responding to the concern that this runs the risk of creating a large pool of permanent government handout recipients, the federal government has also launched an ambitious skills development program. At the provincial level, the government of Punjab is implementing skills development as social welfare in the four poorest Southern Punjab districts. The paper discusses the structure of the two programs, their success at reaching the poor and the monitoring challenges to assess their overall effectiveness.

scholarly journals Adequacy of Social Services for Persons with Disability of a Second Class City in Negros Occidental

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
Cherry Belle R. Marcella ◽  
Ma. Dolores J. Nalumen
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Basic Level

Persons with Disability (PWDs) comprise one billion or fifteen percent (15%) of the world's total population. Adequacy of social services plays a vital role in realizing the rights and welfare of the PWDs. This includes providing them with an adequate standard of living and a basic level of income security that will help reduce their levels of poverty and vulnerability. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is the primary government agency mandated to develop and coordinate social protection and poverty reduction solutions for and with the poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged. Hence, this study explored how adequate are the social services under the five elements: health, education, livelihood, social aspect, and empowerment provided by the CSWD Office of a second-class city in Negros Occidental. It also explored the challenges faced by the respondents in availing of the social services and their recommendations to overcome those challenges.

scholarly journals STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF BUYING CAPACITY OF SOCIAL STANDARDS IN UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-122
Author(s):  
Alona Khmelyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Optimal Size ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Social Standards

Introduction. The preconditions of formation of a socially oriented economy are considered. It is established that the Constitution of Ukraine guarantees citizens the right to social protection. The Law of Ukraine "On State Social Standards and State Social Guarantees" defines legal principles for the formation and application of state social standards and norms. It is noted that the social policy of the state by legislative acts defines such social guarantees as minimum wages, incomes, pensions, social assistance, size of other types of social benefits, which ensure a standard of living not lower than the subsistence minimum. The apriority analysis of dynamic changes of the amount of social guarantees by type has been carried out. It has found out that the use exceptionally of absolute indicators to estimate the standard of living of the population is inappropriate. It is noted that an increase in the dynamics of consumption and income of the population can testify only to the influence of inflationary processes. The algorithm for calculating the purchasing power of social standards and social guarantees in Ukraine has been worked out on the basis of statistical data concerning social indicators of living standards of the population and indicators of the dynamics of price monitoring for socially meaningful goods. It has been established that social payments provide only one-third of total household expenses, while the state's social policy is not aimed at overcoming the poverty and poverty of the Ukrainian population. Purpose. The article aims to analyse the regulatory framework for regulation and size of social standards and statistical analysis of their level in Ukraine, and develop an algorithm for calculating the purchasing power of social benefits: social assistance at birth and child care, pensions and unemployment benefits. Method (methodology). Method of system analysis, methods of causal analysis, index method, table and graphical methods, dynamic series have been used in this research. Results. Theoretical generalization and practical recommendations development of the optimal size of social standards by calculating the actual costs of a household with one child and the purchasing power index of social standards have become the results of the research.

scholarly journals Unconditional Cash Transfers and Women Empowerment: The Case of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-418
Author(s):  
Tehmeena Iqbal ◽  
Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda ◽  
Shujaat Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Welfare Impact ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
The Government ◽  
Unconditional Cash Transfers ◽  
The Impact

This study has explored the welfare impact of Benazir Income Support Program’s (BISP) unconditional cash transfers on women empowerment. The program was initiated in 2011 by the government of Pakistan. The impact has been computed by using two follow up rounds i.e, 2011 & 2016 where baseline was carried out in 2011 and follow-up round was carried out in 2016. Regression Discontinuity Design approach was used to measure casual effects of the BISP cash transfers on women empowerment by selecting target and control groups based on proxy means test. The overtime impact have been estimated by employing Difference in Difference (DiD) model on panel households from 2011-2016. The study observed that BISP led to improve socio-economic wellbeing of the beneficiary women. It has brought improvement in women mobility and women participation in voting. The important contribution is an improvement in the aspect of socio-economic and political empowerment and women mobility across time and overtime. This showed continues support for longer period brought desired results.

Design a Product That Can Stimulate a Developing Nation’s Economy: Grain Mill

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Faurote ◽  
Carrol Curtis ◽  
Daniel Jones ◽  
Andrew Otterson ◽  
Kevin Meyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Grinding Process ◽  
Developing Nation ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Industrialized Nations

The purpose of this project was to design a product that would improve the standard of living, as well as stimulate the economy of a developing nation. Increasing food production was determined to be one of the greatest needs in emerging economies. Initial market research of indigenous grinding methods and diets of several developing nations pointed to a need for grain mills in Central and South America. In order to design a grain mill to meet this need, grain mill machines currently available in industrialized nations were first analyzed in order to determine the technical aspects that would be needed to construct an appropriate grain mill. The initial grain mill designed as well as prototyped weighs 40 pounds and can be assembled without any tools. The grain mill is able to efficiently grind corn into fine flour using a two-step grinding process. Using the two-step process, 1.5 pounds of grain can be milled in an hour. In addition, the grain mill can be easily disassembled for cleaning and transportation when necessary. Through analysis of the potential market’s income as well as looking at the production process, the price per grain mill is expected to be $50, a cost that is within the budget of many families and communities in the Americas.

scholarly journals Classed attitudes and social reform in cross-national perspective: a quantitative analysis using four waves from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Deeming
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Multivariable Regression ◽  
Welfare Attitudes ◽  
National Coalition ◽  
National Perspective ◽  
International Social

This article attempts to forge new links between social attitudes and social policy change in Australia. Drawing on four survey waves of international social survey data and using multivariable regression analysis, this article sheds new light on the determinants of Australian attitudes towards the welfare state in a comparative perspective. It examines their variations across time and social groupings and then compares Australian welfare attitudes with those found in other leading western economies. While there is popular support for government actions to protect Australian citizens in old age and sickness, views about social protection and labour market policy for the working-age population are divided. The comparative analysis and the focus on class-attitude linkages allows for further critical reflection on the nature of social relations and recent social reforms enacted by the Liberal-National coalition government.

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