Increasingly, today social protection is considered among the most effective tools to combat poverty. — AFP/File IT may not end poverty, it is not even meant to end poverty; it may not even be sufficient to provide two square meals for a family riddled with poverty. And yet, increasingly, today social protection is considered among the most effective tools to combat poverty.
Social protection, as defined by Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Secretary Ali Raza Bhutta, is an intervention by the government to ensure a minimum “stable living standard” for the marginalised, which is also the latter’s right.
He was among […]
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